Scots opt for repayment
Students should contribute towards their tuition fees, the Commission of Scottish Education has proposed. The commission, set up by the broad-based Forum on Scottish Education following the 1993...
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Ice age overdue, says vulcanologist
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. A volcanic eruption powerful enough to trigger another ice age is long overdue, a...
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Rectors reject control on degrees
Rectors in Slovakia are fighting government plans to overrule universities in the conferment of degrees and academic titles. A joint meeting of the rectors' conference and the country's higher...
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Engineering urgent change
Complaints about the lack of engineers are not new. Similar lamentations have been heard at any time in the past 100 years and more. But that does not justify ignoring the present decline in...
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The year of filling vacancies threat
Engineering courses cannot recruit. A campaign to promote engineering as exciting, relevant and remunerative was launched last week. A sharp decline in the number of students taking engineering and...
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Private piper calls tune
A prominent member of the Dearing inquiry into higher education, this week predicted that cash pressures could force universities into privatisation, with the Government losing its ability to...
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Come hither
Grievous disappointment for those expecting to see the perfect match of subject and speaker at this week's Institute for Contemporary British History Conference on a century of the popular press. The...
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Intuition wins Nobel prizes
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. "Armchair" thought - the type that leads to Nobel prizes - has been choked out of...
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Archaeologists get in the swim
The future of archaeology is underwater, claims Claudio Mocchegiani Carpano, director of the Italian culture ministry's underwater department and lecturer in underwater archaeology at Ravenna...
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Contract and connive
Two new books out this month - from the left and the right - warn that higher education must act now to shore up its foundations before it is overwhelmed by a tide of ill-prepared students and...
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Counting cost of maths decline
Engineering courses cannot recruit. A campaign to promote engineering as exciting, relevant and remunerative was launched last week. The mathematical skills of students entering engineering and...
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Top-up fee 'to save staff'
The University of Huddersfield has defended suggestions that it may introduce a Pounds 1,000 student top-up fee by claiming other institutions are considering the same thing. In a financial forecast...
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Room for doubt
Iowa State University publishes a handbook for parents which includes the following invaluable advice: "When you visit campus, realise that anything messy, gross, illegal or distasteful 'belongs to...
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Algae for kingdom
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. The natural world should be reclassified into as many as ten kingdoms rather than...
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German historians hit back at Holocaust theory
A United States academic who claimed that ordinary Germans willingly helped the Nazis kill six million Jews has finally faced his German critics - and admitted that his book was flawed. Making his...