Changing rooms
(Photograph) - Jamie Harris, a third-year fine art student, has just returned from a trip to the Falkland Islands where he has been involved in 'the ultimate makeover'. Students from Duncan of...
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Scandal not over yet as MPs call for audit overhaul
A powerful committee of MPs has called for a "fundamental overhaul" of auditing arrangements in further education, just weeks after ministers thought they had drawn a line under a catalogue of...
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UK tops research but must raise pay
Britain does some of the best engineering research in the world, despite comparatively poor pay for engineering academics and research workers, a top-level study has concluded. An international panel...
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Students challenge campus closure
A group of 14 mature students is mounting a legal challenge to the possible closure of the Ripon campus of Ripon and York College. They want to overturn the governors' decision to transfer 800...
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Hangover fears bug Newham
Pre-millennium tension has set in at Newham College, London, where staff have been told to take urgent action to avert the potentially catastrophic effects of a new strain of the millennium bug....
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Short-lived excitement
How exciting to be shortlisted to lead the government's new National College of School Leadership, training the next generation of school teachers, and how disconcerting when the post is readvertised...
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Don't mess with bull
The Quality Assurance Agency may not have realised the opposition it would meet when it proposed abolishing the distinctive MA title for Scottish undergraduate degrees. According to the papal bull...
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Divided nation
It is a country of two halves and new research proves it. Warwick professor Malcolm Tight has locationally matched 52 football clubs with universities, comparing football league positions at the end...
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Altogether now
First things first at the University of Michigan, which is to form part of the proposed new Scottish centre of engineering excellence at the redundant Rosyth naval base on the Firth of Forth....
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In the news
Terry Melia is a man on a mission to revitalise further education. Targeting sleaze and cronyism, the government-appointed further education troubleshooter has been the bane of under-achieving...
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On the move
Peter Clarke, professor of modern British history and fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, is to become master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He will replace Sir John Lyons when he retires next...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Durham has awarded honorary degrees to cabinet enforcer Mo Mowlam (DCL); Sir Martin Rees, astronomer royal (DSc); Ian Stephenson, artist (DLitt); and Audrey Warner (MSc). Peter...
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Eyewitness
Reunification of East and West Berlin was no easy task but reuniting the divided city's libraries has proved even more difficult. The Wall had made the Prussian National Library, sited alongside...
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World watch
A major reorganisation is planned for the 17 universities of Paris and the Ile-de-France over the next 15 years under the Universities of the Third Millennium programme. The universities cater for...
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World watch
The Malaysian government is worried that fewer Malays are studying science and maths than the country's Chinese and Indian populations. It is also concerned that most outstanding Malay science and...