Tobacco solves oil crisis
Biotechnology breakthroughs: starch and evening primrose oil yields and the use of holograms Sunflowers or oilseed rape could prove a richer source of evening primrose oil than evening primrose...
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We are what we eat
(Photograph) - We are what we eat: As new technologies offer improved yields (page 9), the public fears that European and UK controls over food have more to do with encouraging trade and protecting...
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Work to begin on degree standards
New minimum degree standards are to be piloted immediately by the Quality Assurance Agency for higher education, it was revealed this week. Pilots for the so-called "threshold" standards, which will...
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UFI is tipped to up intakes
The government's planned University for Industry can provide the next upward shift in higher education participation rates, says one of the directors of the pilot project to be launched next week....
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Call to clarify degrees
A proliferating new breed of applied doctorate qualifications is creating "total confusion" in the postgraduate qualifications market and must be brought swiftly into the proposed national...
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Dearing report is "constrained in terms of dynamic vision"
The Dearing report is "constrained in terms of dynamic vision", the ABS executive concluded this week. The executive endorsed Dearing's quality regime, supporting plans for a national framework of...
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Debt-hit postgrads seek golden hellos
POSTGRADUATES want institutions or research councils to offer "golden hellos" to stop students abandoning academic study because of high debts. They say moves to charge undergraduates tuition fees...
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Internet Expansion
Next week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, will be expanding to provide a new service for subscribers. A complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 will be available to all...
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Union warns Dewar on 3,000 job losses
Scotland could lose up to 3,000 jobs, 1,500 of them in higher education, unless the Government backs off from its predecessor's public spending plans, the Association of University Teachers Scotland...
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Evasive surgery
(Photograph) - Angry students missed their target, education secretary David Blunkett, in a lobby organised by the Stop the Fees campaign when the Sheffield Labour MP unexpectedly shifted the date of...
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Designed for modern life
Drama and design courses continue to become more popular THE GROWTH in consumerism in the latter half of the 20th century, coupled with developments in media, fashion and multimedia, has ensured a...
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Drama takes centre stage
Drama and design courses continue to become more popular ONCE sniffily regarded as one of the more marginal university subjects, drama and theatre studies is fast becoming part of the establishment....
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Roberts to chair CBI education committee
Post Office chief executive John Roberts has been appointed chairman of the Confederation of British Industry's education and training affairs committee. Mr Roberts, who replaces Sir Dominic Cadbury...
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More employees join 'people development'
More than a third of employees in the education sector are now working with the "people development" Investors in People standard, according to Investors in People UK. This is up 7 per cent on last...
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Howells seeks more TEC improvements
There is "still much to do" to improve the performance of Training and Enterprise Councils, lifelong learning minister Kim Howells said with the publication of TEC performance tables this week. There...