Why students mind about the gap year
Two A-level veterans planning a year off tell Alison Utley of the ups and downs of the last week AT THE beginning of the week Josie Allies's plan to work in a Maidstone solicitors' office for a year...
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Fees charge threatens relations with Europe
BRITISH university relations with Europe could suffer unless the Government clarifies tuition fee arrangements for EU students, the British Council has warned. No mention was made in the Dearing...
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Ulster's children set to flee across the border
A MASS exodus of Northern Ireland students across the border is being predicted in the wake of the Dearing review. Sir Ron Dearing's proposal to introduce fees came precisely as they were abolished...
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Chair requires bottom
There is just one problem with the education trade's willingness to appoint committees and commissions of inquiry - who can be found to chair them? The Association of University Teachers is engaged...
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Desert storm
Wanted - details of somebody called John Casey, author of a panoramic assault on Dearing in The Spectator. Paragraph two begins: "'Higher education,' the very term is like a knell. It brings to mind...
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Healthy smells
There has been something in the air at Liverpool John Moores University over the past three months. Fifty lecturers, technicians and research students in the school of biomolecular sciences have been...
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Dad makes big league
Fresh evidence of the incomparable glamour of academic life. Management Charter Initiative chief Tom Cannon confides triumphantly that he has finally attained street credibility in the eyes of his...
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Dead on arrival
Professor Cannon isn't the only member of academia's football tendency to have received an accolade recently. Stefan Szymanski of Imperial College, who has applied "company architecture" theories to...
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Learned lovers
While Britain was agog over the infidelity of foreign secretary Robin Cook, New York has been excited by the far more contested private life of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. As with the Cook affair (...
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Museum cashes in on sale of art copies
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has signed an agreement with the Bridgeman Art Library in London to sell images of some of its most famous artefacts. Under the three-year arrangement access to the...
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Funding councils offer accounting guidelines
SENIOR managers in higher education need a framework for working out the cost of what happens in their institutions, new funding council guidelines state. The guidelines, produced jointly by the...
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Do the plugged-in opt out?
Hundreds of students at Loughborough University are to be the focus of research exploring "virtual living and learning" in higher education. Project leader Charles Crook said the work would exploit...
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Union claims institute
THE ASSOCIATION of University Teachers wants lecturers to set the standards for and run the higher education teaching accreditation scheme recommended in the Dearing report. The AUT's submission to...
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Sykes calls for Labour fee rethink
A DETAILED, independent financial analysis of the Government's proposals for student funding is urgently needed, according to Sir Richard Sykes, chairman and chief executive of pharmaceutical giant...
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CVCP finds significant gaps in many Dearing proposals
KEY QUESTIONS about short-term cash shortages and university freedom are still awaiting answers post-Dearing, say higher education policy developers. A detailed analysis of Sir Ron Dearing's report...