Disabled part-timers win allowances
Ministers have agreed to extend disabled students' allowances to include part-time students. From next autumn, disabled part-time university students will be entitled to the Disabled Students...
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Higher fees needed to stop UK brain drain
Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, the chancellor of Oxford University, has warned that differentiated undergraduate tuition fees are inevitable in the absence of increased government funding for universities...
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LSE sets up centre to examine life's risks
The London School of Economics launched an interdisciplinary centre for the analysis of risk and regulation yesterday. Carr, which will investigate issues of risk in all aspects of everyday life from...
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City departments fear the chop
City University is to increase investment in its strongest subjects, raising staff fears that weaker departments could be at risk. It will develop and invest in groups and projects where there is...
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Scientists give physics the thumbs down
Physics is losing some of its attraction for many of science's most brilliant minds. A poll of 130 of the world's leading physicists for the millennium issue of the magazine Physics World revealed 17...
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Financial assistance
New financial assistance has been made available to Chinese university students in eight major cities. Students apply for bank loans directly, which they must pay back within four years of graduating...
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Funders keep eye on Melton
College funding chiefs are appointing an official observer at Melton Mowbray College under tough anti-sleaze powers introduced earlier this year. This follows an inquiry into The THES's allegations...
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Jobs insecurity spreads
Higher education employees are twice as likely as bar staff and four times as likely as building site workers to be in temporary jobs. Only people working on campsites or for recruitment agencies...
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League plan to attract firms
Government officials are considering proposals for a university ranking system that would grade institutions on their success in forging links with industry. The system would complement the research...
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UCAS web 'a hit'
Universities spent less on advertising in clearing for the third year running this summer, while the use of the web took off, according to Riley Research's annual report on clearing. More than four...
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FE disconnected?
The pairing of further education and libraries is a rather neglected one (Opinion, THES, November 19). The role of libraries "is changing and their importance increasing" and that "the library is the...
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Take us into account
Anthea Rose says the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is "the only professional accountancy body that has its own technician qualification" (Letters, THES, December 3). The Association...
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Benito Blair?
Dennis Kavanagh says that a large staff devoted to media manipulation and focus groups "is normal in the White House (but) is an innovation in the UK" ("Bona fide or Bonaparte", THES, November 26)....
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Greek pathways
Final general examinations in Greece are not similar to GCSEs ("Winds of change in Aegean", THES, November 19). Until recently, there have been four pathways from which to choose. For example, by...
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True indicator is a job at the end
The idea behind university performance indicators about widening participation and drop-out rates (THES, December 3) is welcome. It is the very essence of a modern university that its students and...