* The student-elected rectors of Scotland's four ancient universities are to urge Scottish education minister Brian Wilson to reject proposals stripping them of their automatic right to chair the...
Britain's pure science base could be eroded if a move from grants to loans leads students to choose courses more directly related to employment, a member of the Dearing inquiry committee said this...
* John Arbuthnott, principal of Strathclyde University and a leading member of the Dearing committee, has attacked the Government's funding proposals as "more socially regressive" than Dearing's...
Rather than enjoying a summer of fun or job applications, a group of engineering graduates at Nottingham Trent University are embroiled in a row over their results, which they claim are invalid....
The world of finance has shown its harshest face to Richard Saville of the University of St Andrews, author of the 300th anniversary history of the Bank of Scotland. When he signed up to write it,...
Saville's father John - also a historian, this time at Hull - is the subject of the Antithesis summer competition. Now 81, he was entered for the research assessment exercise at the age of 80. (Both...
The pressures to find a summer job appear to be affecting more than students these days. At last week's Scottish press conference on the Dearing report, Scottish committee chief Sir Ron Garrick...
Dearing Day, last Wednesday, and the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals was determined to put on a damned good show. The vice squad's motorcade pulled up at the Intercontinental Hotel where...
Alumnus to be proud of number 118 is a beacon of hope to unemployed ex-MPs. David Mellor, ex-minister and former MP for Putney, is probably too upset by the death of Sir James Goldsmith to gloat. But...
(Photograph) - Monster heritage: a wooden replica of a stegosaurus, designed by Peter Long, seen above left with a colleague from Cambridge University's department of engineering, and built by local...
A ROBOTIC cricket with ears in its legs has been built by scientists who hope it will help them understand how its real-life equivalent finds a perfect partner. Nottingham University psychologist...
THE NUMBER of full-time further education student numbers grew by a sixth and part-timers by nearly a third in one year, an official tally has revealed. The figures, from the Further Education...
GRADUATE employment opportunities are better than ever, according to new figures. The Higher Education Statistics Agency revealed this week that "record numbers" of graduates entered jobs within six...
THE LONDON School of Economics and Moscow's Higher School of Economics are jointly setting up a college to try to meet a severe shortage of specialists in market economics in Russia, writes Kam Patel...
UNIVERSITY companies charged with exploiting academic research doubled their income in just a year, according to an imminent study. Their gross income of Pounds 121 million in 1994/95 was twice that...