RAE panel miss design point, says RCA chief
RAE CONSULTATION ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART. Christopher Frayling, rector of the Royal College of Art, has criticised the handling of design in the 1996 research assessment exercise, writes Kam Patel. In...
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V-cs eye later admissions
VICE-CHANCELLORS are to draw up a model for an admissions system in which would-be students could apply for university after they receive their exam results. It is likely to involve changes either to...
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Colleges hold key
The degree should not be held up as a "gold standard", and extra public funding should be directed at colleges, not universities, two leading government advisers said this week, writes Phil Baty....
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Leaked memo predicts cash shortage
UP TO 30,000 young people are expected to take up full-time education or training under the government's New Deal to get the young unemployed off benefit and into work. But the scheme could run out...
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Leeds Met wins merger right
Leeds Metropolitan University has succeeded in persuading a previously sceptical Further Education Funding Council that it should be allowed to merge with Harrogate College. The university said...
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New hope on the New Deal
Carl Reid graduated from Stoke-on-Trent College last year with an HND in media studies. He also graduated with "thousands of pounds" of student debt, and poor job prospects in an overcrowded graduate...
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Chairs
University College of St Martin, Lancaster The following have been appointed to chairs: Colin Richards, former visiting professor at the University of Newcastle and HMI for Ofsted; Mike Walsh, former...
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Howells attacks exclusion zone
HIGHER education has a crucial role to play in lifelong learning but more must be done to widen participation and improve business links, minister Kim Howells has said. Dr Howells said that the...
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Delayed reaction
Epitomising the saying that it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive was lifelong learning minister Kim Howells, who this week failed to make his scheduled speech to the Association of...
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Disarming quiet
It must surely be of concern to Prince Charles that his institute of Architecture, purveyor of neo-classical design, has turned its back on one of its own. Anthony-Noel Kelly, the lecturer in...
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A flaky premise
There will have been some wry chuckling this week among the scientific community over the re-runs of the sci-fi series V from 1984. An incoming force of apparently friendly aliens persuades...
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Dance class
Prone to introspection about the state and prospects of their discipline, economic historians showed a rather more cheerful side to their collective character as they held their annual conference...
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Millennium blues
The world is set to end with neither a bang nor a whimper, but an academic conference. The approach of the millennium has spawned apocalyptic studies programmes, books and multi-disciplinary courses...
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Percentage games
Fresh evidence that the American sporting-academic complex never misses a fundraising trick. College sports fans desperate to find something to add to the mindboggling array of souvenirs on offer (...
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Family values
Alumnus to be proud of No: 168 has been described as the 23rd member of the Cabinet, or at least that is one of the more printable descriptions. Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair's combined rottweiler...