Labour suffers setback on bill
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill completed its House of Lords stages this week, but not before the government had suffered another defeat. The government went down by 137 votes to 112 on an...
Search
-
-
Eye robot
(Photograph) - Sex, gambling and underwater magic are on the cards as universities open their doors for the annual science, engineering and technology week. Lectures, exhibitions and competitions -...
-
Little change in class make-up
MORE than half of the students accepted by universities and colleges last year came from the top two social classes, representing less than 40 per cent of the population. Just 10 per cent of students...
-
Peerless manners shown
It is a truth self-evident to readers of this paper that discussing higher education for long enough will inflame the most mild-mannered. Experimentally tested on the House of Lords, the most...
-
Poll support for German fees
Nearly half Germany's students would support tuition fees if the money went directly into improving university quality and was financed by a loan system, according to an opinion poll. The poll,...
-
Cornwall looks for credit
A NEW university in Cornwall could become a testbed for regional credit accumulation and transfer, its supporters say. Managers at Exeter University, which has hit problems in setting up a campus at...
-
MPs blast council for ocean centre cost
IN A STORMY session last week, the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee demanded answers to what one MP called the "mess" surrounding the Southampton Oceanography Centre. The centre opened two...
-
Monograph debut for PSA-Routledge
A subject group and a commercial publisher are set to reverse the trend of recent academic publishing by starting a new monograph series, writes Huw Richards. The deal has still to be sealed formally...
-
Academic-turned-MP rises to PPS position
Meteorology was never Tony McNulty's academic field, but he is happy to tell anybody about clouds and silver linings: "I thought it was the end of the world when I did not get on to the education and...
-
Caledonian selects principal
A management expert at Sheffield Hallam University will be the new principal of Glasgow Caledonian University, succeeding Stan Mason, who was fired last September for gross misconduct. Ian Johnston,...
-
US to join libraries' campaign
Top university libraries in the United States are expected next week to join European counterparts in condemning the rising control being imposed by publishers on the pricing and licensing of...
-
Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer planned merger collapses
Library groups' fears over the Pounds 20 billion planned merger of publishing firms Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer were allayed when it collapsed this week following objections by the European...
-
Suicide is all in the head
Next Wednesday is European Brain Day. The THES gets cerebral In response to some changes, the adult brain may reconfigure and, in the process, kills some of it cells. Changing socks is not sufficient...
-
Ecstacy demand high during anti-drugs push
The "Sorted" anti-drugs poster campaign that followed the death of teenager Leah Betts was counterproductive, says a researcher at the University of Teesside, who found that demand for Ecstacy...
-
High price of trade in counterfeit goods
A growing trade in fake goods, estimated at Pounds 300 million, could seriously damage the British economy, says Andrew Clark, senior lecturer in law at Warwick University. He says counterfeit goods...