Bloody students
Alumni to be proud of no 19: General Sani Abacha, military dictator of Nigeria, possibly acquired his dedication to free speech, due process and humane government during training at the Cadet...
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Keeping you posted
It seems unlikely that Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals staff will learn much from this month's university newspaper cuttings selection, circulated internally, consisting largely of...
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Pint-size offer
Is this the thin edge of the wedge, sticking out from the columns of The Journalist, organ of the National Union of Journalists? Birkbeck College has invited journalists to come and talk to students...
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Governing bodies on road to 'Nolanness'
The governing bodies of further and higher education institutions need to be broader and more open, but there is little need for more outside scrutiny of their activities, the Nolan Committee on...
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Head start
Quick off the mark with their publicity blitz are the Sicilian hosts of the 1997 World Student Games. With the 1995 games only weeks gone, their posters are already decorating London railway stations...
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Language barrier
Antithesis never tries to perpetuate rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge universities, but Pakistan's foreign minister is not so reticent. According to Oxford Today, he was asked while being...
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Cut down
Anyone who thought it a random shot when this week's episode of BBC political drama Final Cut featured a foreign secretary humiliated into resignation by the offer of a move to Education should think...
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Playing away
Left twiddling their fingers when they'd been hoping for a decent game of rugby last week were Cambridge University's oddly named second string, the Sixty Club. Irritation is the normal attitude...
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Eastern premise
At least Tony Rice is apologetic about his acronym. And who could claim they would devise a better one, faced with the project title: High Resolution Temporal and Spatial Study of the Benthic Biology...
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Assessment shadow over research
The future of development research funding will depend on the outcome of the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise. Introduced to help new universities in building up their research provision when the...
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Sponsored FE chair will be first
The first commercially sponsored chair in the further education sector is soon to be announced at Bishop Burton College in East Yorkshire. Roy Brown, newly appointed research director at the college...
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Training framework audit ordered
The Government has commissioned an audit of the whole training framework in an effort to streamline the structure of vocational qualifications and to restore confidence in job-related courses. The...
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Ain't nobody like the body
When you gather round the piano this Christmas, simultaneously educate yourself in biochemistry with some ditties from the The Biochemists' Songbook. What better way of making use of that dead time...
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On speck
Darren Speck, now a student at the University of Warwick, was at Mid Warwickshire College in Leamington Spa when he won the BTEC engineering student of the year award for his mountain bike design (...
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Two into one
The Education Committee and the Employment Committee of the House of Commons are to be abolished from March, and replaced with a single committee on Education and Employment, the Government has...