Hands-on route to a TV career
Licences for new local TV stations are being welcomed by media academics and students, reports Gideon Burrows Breaking the gloomy skyline above the student houses on the outskirts of Manchester, a...
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Seoul
Hundreds of leftist students demanded an end to the United States military presence in South Korea and called for a government condemnation of the bombing by a US jet fighter on a range near a...
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Cambridge opens Turkish talks
Cambridge University has entered into talks with Turkey's higher education authority to co-operate on internet tuition. Anil Seale, of the Cambridge Overseas Trust, has been in discussions with...
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Increase in black applicants
The number of black applicants for full-time higher education courses has increased by 3.3 per cent on last year, while the number of Asian applicants has increased by 2.6 per cent, according to the...
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Factors in good multimedia design
The players. The artists Artists generally work with static images to present a message or induce emotions. At times, the message may have many interpretations, and it is left to the viewer to form...
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Move to end funding split
Funding chiefs are considering a more common approach to resourcing further and higher education. The move aims to do away with "perverse" financial incentives for FE colleges to switch sectors as...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad held an unscheduled closed-door meeting with 34 undergraduates from the International Medical University to discuss their claim that the university had...
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R&D faces a Pounds 2bn shortfall
An additional Pounds 2 billion needs to be pumped into research and development to put the United Kingdom on a par with competitor nations, according to two damning reports. One report, by the...
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FE invests in private partnerships
Further education's biggest public-private partnership deal, announced this week, has been hailed by funding chiefs as the future for supporting major redevelopment in the sector. Canterbury College...
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Food science industry starved of recruits
Falling numbers of students pursuing food science in British universities are putting the industry at risk, an expert panel has warned. Alastair Robertson, chairman of the Institute of Food Research...
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Edwards to become Newcastle v-c
Christopher Edwards (below), principal of Imperial College, London's school of medicine, will become vice-chancellor of Newcastle University from January 2001, following James Wright's retirement....
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Gates and Cambridge talk scholarships
Cambridge University is talking to Bill Gates, owner of computer giant Microsoft, about a Pounds 130 million programme that would allow the university to offer graduate scholarships. Mr Gates has...
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Cricklade cleared of dismissal charge
Cricklade College did not victimise lecturer Andrew Murray for his union activity, an employment tribunal has ruled. The Southampton tribunal ruled unanimously that Mr Murray, branch official for...
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Alleged MI6 officer out of Lockerbie briefing
A member of Glasgow University's Lockerbie trial briefing unit has been dropped following allegations that he is a former MI6 officer. Recent press reports have claimed that Andrew Fulton, a visiting...
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Calls for justice
(Photograph) - Student protesters outside the Jakarta home of former Indonesian president Suharto on the second anniversary of his downfall after 32 years in power. Demonstrators demanded his trial...