Oxbridge college fee changeover
OXFORD university could face cuts of Pounds 14 million and Cambridge Pounds 9 million as a result of college fee changes announced this week. Oxford and Cambridge each get about Pounds 35 million of...
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Governor critic was censored
A row over freedom of speech has erupted at Middlesex University following the "censorship" of an article written by a university governor for the in-house newspaper, North Circular. Governor and...
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Quality on line
Universities and colleges will be expected to provide students, employers, and quality watchdogs with clearer descriptions of the content and aims of their courses, under a proposed quality assurance...
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Clean sweep
(Photograph) - Debbie Murphy vacuums the council chamber at Cardiff University, which will house the Welsh Assembly when it opens in May 1999. Eventually the assembly will have its own building. Vice...
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Bright ideas needed for R&D cash
The government wants to hear from universities, research organisations and innovative businesses as it considers how best to stimulate investment in research and development, writes Julia Hinde. In a...
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A Conservative number
No prizes for guessing what preoccupies Tory students as they come up to National Union of Students conference time. Asked for its position on fees and grants, Conservative Students' chairman Gavin...
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The ghost of 1968
The latest edition of Dundee University's alumni publication, GC Magazine, includes a photograph from the archives. "Your grant is in danger" warn the posters displayed at a student work-in held in...
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Reasons to be happy
No whingeing here. Instead, The THES celebrates the efforts of the education and employment secretary, David Blunkett, in securing Pounds 160 million from the European Social Fund to fund the...
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A draft adrift
When Gordon Brown unilaterally announced plans for the UFI at a Labour Party Conference in his days as opposition spokesman for trade and industry, hackles were raised since the party's education...
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Stuck in the middle
Though it went largely unmentioned publicly at last weekend's Liberal Democrat spring assembly, the decision to drop the party's recommital motion while the Teaching and Higher Education Bill was in...
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With friends like that...
Innocent victimhood seems to be in fashion in the Lib Dem education team. Easy winner of any contest to find the most dumbstruck expression of the month would be further and higher education...
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Shotgun weddings
Hubert Markl, head of Germany's Max Planck Society, was standing no nonsense at the Royal Society's meeting on European science funding this week. When some participants bemoaned the forced...
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Big bad Ben
Alumnus to be proud of this week reaches No 163 in the series, with a man whose determination to pursue Gordon Brown-type family values is so acute that he has refused (under the guise of a political...
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Colleges denounce 'betrayal'
A lobby group of up to 32 inner-city colleges attacked the government this week for "betraying" Helena Kennedy's agenda to tackle social exclusion and widen participation in education. Inner-city...
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Whistleblower bill a step nearer lawbook
The Public Interest Disclosure Bill, which offers legal protection for people who blow the whistle on fraud, crime and malpractice at work, moved closer to the statute books last week as it reached...