A level demise
A levels will not be the main route to higher level qualifications in the future, the National Advisory Council for Education and Training Targets has predicted. It calls for more flexible...
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Safety risk closes Belfast job centre
Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education has shut one of its buildings because of health and safety fears. The closure of the Jobs Skills Centre came as a report revealed many of the...
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Contract wrangle
The governing body of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen was this week to decide whether to introduce a new contract with longer working hours and shorter annual holidays for appointments made from...
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Part-timers turn to Europe
Thousands of part-time lecturers who had their hopes of backdated pension claims dashed at an industrial tribunal in Birmingham last week are to take their case to Europe via the Employment Appeals...
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Combating AIDS via drug users
Public health campaigns which accept that some drug users will continue to use drugs play a vital role in combating the AIDS threat, according to a Canadian expert. Eric Single, professor of...
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Code of conduct for overseas deals
All United Kingdom universities and most further education colleges are to face sanctions for the first time if they breach guidelines for overseas student recruitment practices and the delivery of...
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Liability law pleas rebuffed
The Government has turned down pleas for new laws to protect university and college governors from personal liability where their institutions run into serious financial problems. Department for...
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Docklands go ahead
A London docklands university is to become a reality with the Government's decision to approve a Pounds 16 million technology centre in the Royal Docks in East London. A Pounds 7.8 million grant from...
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Bread line
Precise image of the week belonged, unwittingly or not, to the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals' spokesman who described the assembled bosses as "aerated" when they met to discuss the...
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Cows in clover
Just two weeks after the Budget bombshell has left most of higher education wondering if it can afford any new buildings, the University of Reading has announced the opening of "new facilities for...
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Right to beef
Sir Bernard Tomlinson and fellow scientists are quite right to kick up a fuss about mad cow disease. After all, the incidence of its human equivalent, Creutzfelt Jacob disease, is one in a million,...
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Dead cert
James Owen Drife of Leeds University's school of medicine has been reassuring medical students about their post-qualification careers in the latest student edition of the British Medical Journal. "In...
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Mini Japan takes root in Berks
British students have been given the go-ahead to apply through the Universities and Colleges Admisions Service and receive standard mandatory awards covering tuition fees to study at a small private...
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High-tech library unveiled
(Photograph) - The University of Abertay Dundee is building an Pounds 8 million library which will almost treble its existing space while significantly reducing the proportion available for books....
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Carpeting for mites
A traditional party trick has pointed the way ahead for an electrifying scheme to fight asthma. John Hughes of the centre for bioelectrostatics at Southampton University is leading research into...