Dearing's terms of reference
The inquiry has been asked to make recommendations on how the shape, structure, size and funding of higher education, including support for students, should develop to meet the needs of the UK over...
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Does the Rt Hon Lady. . .
. . . recognise that universities . . . are independent of the Government, and that they have a right . . . to take appropriate steps to secure the resources they need to underpin the quality of...
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Selected viewing
Alumni to be proud of nos 32 and 33 are a couple of Scottish politicians. First is Ian Lang, president of the Board of Trade, who had eight days to browse through the Scott report and managed only to...
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Having a Major-Ball
Are the Major family's tastes more sophisticated than is usually admitted? As the prime minister was doing his best to play down the Scott report last week, his elder brother Terry Major-Ball was to...
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Review may leave loans bill dead in the water
The Government's announcement that Sir Ron Dearing is to undertake a thorough review of higher education has rendered the unpopular student loans Bill a "dead duck", according to members of the House...
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Too far, too much, too soon?
A central issue for the new inquiry into higher education is "whether expansion has gone too far", Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, said this week. Growth in higher...
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What a drag net
The old joke about there being only five education news stories (that many?), with their apparent diversity merely variations upon common themes came to several minds last week as the "Essays on the...
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Christians and lions
The American magazine, Sports Illustrated, reports that a college basketball team has recently had two games abandoned - the first because one of its players brandished a chair and threatened a...
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Too many Forman
Bipartisanship may rule, but the Commons debate on Education Secretary Gillian Shephard's inquiry still threw up one alarming idea as former higher education minister Nigel Forman suggested that the...
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Great 1-day Scott
So how long would be a sensible period for considering the Scott report and its implications. Three hours, as offered to HM Opposition? Eight days, as used by HM Government? We suspect the Hansard...
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Dental pain gain
Greenfield also had a handy hint, based on United States biorhythm research, on dealing with dental pain: go for a lunchtime appointment. This is the point at which people subjected to cold and...
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Sleep talking
Good news for the less thrilling lecturers in academic life from Oxford's Susan Greenfield, speaking on consciousness at the Royal Society of Arts. Answering a questioner who admitted to not having...
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Learning launch
Hundreds of delegates from across Britain gathered in Edinburgh yesterday for the UK launch of the European Year of Lifelong Learning attended by European commissioner Edith Cresson. The United...
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Promo prizes
The winner of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's second science communicator award will receive a Pounds 3,000 prize. This year there is a new category for postgraduates...
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How to net a job
An Internet employment exchange is due to go on line at Loughborough University student union this week enabling students to seek out in-house vacation jobs. Academic departments "post" their job...