Kept in the dark
Alumnus to be proud of No: 29 is the unsinkable Bolsover MP Dennis Skinner, commended last week by Gillian Shephard as a splendid advertisement for the virtues of selective education. Mr Skinner did...
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Star turn
Refreshing candour from Roy Wood of the Scottish Hotel School at Strathclyde University, in his report of a presentation during the university senate meeting by Allister Ferguson of the Institute of...
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Sweat bath
Positively the last word on the burst-pipe floods that wreaked havoc throughout Glaswegian higher education institutions following Siberian temperatures at New Year. Glasgow University's building...
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Needy actor prints DIY manual
It took two half-marathons, hundreds of letters to charities, several car boot sales, a few cheese and wine parties, and many T-shirt and mug sales, to get Damian Gaskin to drama school. The law...
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Arts body claims drama is a crisis
The Arts Council is urging ministers to press ahead with a review of funding for performing arts schools and support for their students. Many institutions offering dance and drama courses are under...
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Fine tooth con?
This week's prize for defying the zeitgeist and getting funding for it goes to Professor H. Davies of Reading University, who has been awarded Pounds 52,915 by the Department of the Environment to...
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High hopes
One view likely to be less contentious than most at today's CVCP meeting is that higher education issues need a higher profile. As education and employment question time attained unusual levels of...
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Burned out
Paisley University's annual Burns Lunch was its usual outstanding success last week, even though some of those due to perform were absent because of flu. Indeed, Sam Monaghan, associate head of...
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Unplugged
We regret to announce the demise of the international edition of Iota, the newsletter of the Dutch Foundation for Public Information on Science, Technology and the Humanities. The parting message on...
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Rise and shine
CVCP members who may have noted the elusive qualities of their chief executive, Diana Warwick, may be surprised to learn she is now virtually a household name. According to CVCP News, the mysterious...
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Cuts push AUT to flirt with foe
The Association of University Teachers has rejected industrial action, including exam disruption and refusal to process student applications, in protest at the budget cuts to university funding....
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College heads say no
Higher education college heads have condemned an entrance levy and other Budget counter-measures as "irresponsible", "ill-conceived" and "divisive". The Standing Conference of Principals, whose...
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Engineering courses in jeopardy as new council toughens up
The new Engineering Council was launched today amid warnings of a shake-up in engineering degrees that will lead to some courses losing their accreditation. The director general of the new council,...
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Ulster honours team
Ulster University is taking the unusual step of using its honours degree ceremony to confer awards on seven educationists, in recognition of a profession it believes to be under "intense pressure"....
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Health boost for NW
Liverpool and Manchester universities have pooled expertise in medicine, law and bioethics to produce an institute devoted to medical ethics. The institute is funded by the two universities and by...