College fails
Lancaster University's department of teaching and education at Charlotte Mason College. Ambleside, was criticised by OFSTED this week. Its report said the quality of training for the teaching of...
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Dearing line-up
The membership and terms of reference of Sir Ron Dearing's committee of inquiry into higher education were expected to be announced late this week or early next week. The committee will have up to 18...
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Grey triumph
The Association of University Teachers says that its threat to "greylist" the University of Ulster as a bad employer has led to victory. Campus unions were set to hold strike ballots if the...
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GPs are clotbusters
Family doctors have a key role to play in giving "clot-buster" drugs to heart attack patients, the British Cardiac Society's annual meeting in Glasgow heard this week. A survey by John Rawles of...
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Exam chaos hits students
Students at two universities are complaining about last-minute rescheduling of exams which they fear could affect their chances of success. At the University of Wales, Cardiff, they have called for...
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Government opens industrial gateway
A radical multimillion pound scheme to boost academic research into industrial technologies is on the Government launch pad. The Government is planning to establish research centres in organisations...
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AUT counts wider costs of budget cuts
About 30,000 jobs are at risk from the cuts to higher education announced in last November's Budget, according to figures sent to the Department for Education and Employment this week by the...
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V-Cs urge tax relief
A call for tax changes forms the element of surprise in an otherwise familiar set of concerns expressed in the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals public spending submission, released this...
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Members reveal few interests
There are few hostages to fortune in the declarations of education and employment frontbenchers to the House of Commons register of members' interests, issued this week, writes Huw Richards. Gillian...
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Particle explosion
If only by virtue of their discipline you might expect particle physicists to be a fragmentary lot, rarely coalescing. But the opposite appears to be true. Following on from their amazing collective...
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Venerable Viennese
Coming soon to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, a day-long seminar on Austria and Central Europe starring Austria's former deputy chancellor Erhard Busek. Should pull in the social...
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Man at work
This portrait of plant boilerman Michael Bailey is part of an exhibition to mark the centenary of Salford University and University College, Salford. A mosaic of more than 6,000 photos of staff and...
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Ray of light for breast cancer scans
Breast-screening could in the future be done without X-rays using a technique that is as harmless as a reading lamp, a conference heard last month. The screening harnesses rays that are just beyond...
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Samurai in Scotland
A memorandum of agreement to promote education and research collaboration bet- ween Strathclyde and Tokyo Universities might not sound the raciest of news, but it has uncovered an intriguing tale of...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Victorian school inspector: "Docile echoes of the eternal voice, pliant organs of the infinite will, they are going along with the essential movement of the world...