Exams stop play as sport faces fixture fix
Much has been made on the sports pages of the prospect of the FA Cup's fifth round of the stretching into infinity as bad weather forces endless postponements. But the soccer authorities are not the...
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Devolved Scotland needs successor for SHEFC
A planning and funding buffer body should be responsible for higher education under a Scottish parliament, according to a paper from the Association of University Teachers Scotland. Delegates to...
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Correction
Professor Anthony Jones's salary as rector of the Royal College of Art was Pounds 78,720 exclusive of pension contributions (Pounds 13,391) in 1994/95, not Pounds 92,111 as stated in The THES of...
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Lab myth Scotched
The myth of the scientist as a boffin in a white coat is being dispelled by an open day on March 7 run by the 22 further education colleges and five higher education institutions in the West of...
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Leeding lights
A national employer forum based in Leeds brings together nearly 100 employers ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to companies like Guinness. The Employers for Higher Education group...
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Training Tessas
The Labour party will report this month on plans for tax-free "training TESSAs". The training levy in the party's 1992 manifesto is likely to be abandoned in favour of tax reliefs and training...
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Open book
Work has started on a Pounds 1.5 million three-storey extension to the library at the University of Essex adjoining the Albert Sloman Library and providing an extra 250 reader spaces. The Higher...
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Library faces cuts
British Library redundancies and service cuts loomed closer today as directors submitted their final Pounds 30 million cost-cutting plans to the Government. The library has already said that some 200...
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Lib Dem students back Ashdown funding policy
Liberal Democrat students have pledged support for smaller grants and bigger loans, proposed in their party's new higher education paper. Calls for a reformed further and higher education funding...
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Cine qua non
(Photograph) - Joost Hunningher, director of last week's Lumi re Festival at the University of Westminster, shoulders an early film camera as he meets a Mutant Turtle at the centenary of the Lumi re...
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A triumph for science
The finale of our great balloon debate was last week. In it, the faculties of science, social science and humanities argued about which should survive. The other two have to be ejected from an...
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Equal misery in 5% cut
Top-notch universities have lost out to more vulnerable institutions in a share-the-misery exercise applied to funding allocations for 1996/97, announced yesterday. Institutions which might have...
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Teikyo two in Aids scandal, Tokyo
Vice president Takeshi Abe of private Teikyo University, Japan, which has a branch campus at Durham and has supported two colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, has resigned after being accused of murder...
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Charity warning
Medical research charities have issued their strongest warning yet that they will not pay for university infrastructure, such as laboratories or major equipment. They are increasingly worried that...
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Ron's lot sorted by Easter
The membership of Sir Ron Dearing's review of higher education is expected to be agreed before Easter. The main issue confronting Education and Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard, who will...