Soton bid to rescue Athens campus
Southampton Institute is gearing up for a costly recruitment drive in a last-ditch attempt to save its loss-making Athens campus. Only a fivefold increase in student numbers will ensure that its...
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Cost row
The Further Education Funding Council has disputed Government estimates of cost differences between schools and colleges. Responding to Department for Education and Employment figures comparing how...
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Southerners travel to study
Britain is a divided country when it comes to educating its students More than half of applicants accepted for higher education from Wales chose to stay in Wales and 91 per cent of those from...
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Welsh-tongued nurses on wane
Welsh-speaking school leavers are choosing not to study at Bangor University school of nursing, a decision which could have serious implications for the future of health care in the Welsh heartland....
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Rectors enjoy honeymoon
Three months into office, relations between Spain's right-wing government and higher education leaders seem to be running smooth despite initial uncertainty about what was in store for universities....
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Percentage changes
Your table (THES, July 26) purported to show that there are no female professors of veterinary science in the United Kingdom. Claire Wathes has been professor of veterinary reproduction at The Royal...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. "How very strange," comments the Bulgarian sitting next to me on the flight to Sofia, bemused that anyone could be interested in the mechanics of university affairs. I have just explained the...
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VAT loss
Universities are likely to suffer from new Value Added Tax rules, says an adviser on the tax. John Kennedy, VAT partner at accountants Deloitte and Touche, predicts that they will lose out under a...
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Synthetic bone booster
A synthetic bone substitute that could be used to repair facial injuries is being developed at the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education. Made...
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Italians raise teacher status
The Italian government has decided that all future schoolteachers will have to have a degree and that secondary school teachers will also require two years of postgraduate training. Elementary school...
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Elite and proud of it
Dear Ron, It is now public knowledge that a number of major universities are considering forming a premier league and preparing themselves for the measures that would have to be taken to bring it...
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Low-paid pawns set to strike back
This is not the first time that university staff have been used as political pawns by government and university management but this year we have reached the pits of cynicism and manipulation with the...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word is by a writer famous for his interest in caves: "'Why can't we be friends now?' said the other, holding him affectionately. 'It's what I want. It's what you want.' But the...
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A silken detour through Paris
Serinde, Terre De Bouddha
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An intellectual channel tunnel
New French Thought