Portsmouth's model bid
A new report recommends radical changes in the governance of Portsmouth University following the turmoil caused by vice chancellor Neil Merritt's resignation two years ago. It may provide a model for...
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Dreadwood
This week's award for spreading alarm and despondency goes to the public relations office of the University of Wales, Cardiff which has issued a press release under the horrifying headline "Redwood...
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Inns and outs of barristers forced to eat their way to work
Universities and colleges planning to run training courses for would-be barristers will be bound by the age-old traditions of the London inns of court, it has emerged. Institutions bidding to offer...
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Microgravity in cash downslide
British scientists flying an experiment on the United States space shuttle Columbia say that their nascent subject, microgravity research, could die a quick death when the shuttle lands today. Their...
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How Latin can be music to the ears
Long-suffering students at the University of Munster in Germany once named a campaign against compulsory Latin exams for many degree subjects "Latinum in Latrinam!" Lecturer, Karl-Heinz von...
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Blossoms nipped in the bud
Stopping new universities doing legitimate university work is wrong Few universities in the United Kingdom are older than 200 years and only two of these are English. When England was industrialising...
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Entry plans split system
Radical proposals to transform the student admissions procedure could reduce some universities to little more than clearing institutions mopping up candidates who fail to secure places on sought-...
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Dear Don
Hardly surprising that the vice chancellors' email network is strictly private - like all of us they need somewhere to let off steam to other people who will understand. But is a commercial...
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Marine funding figures all at sea
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has disputed claims that Scottish biology students face discrimination because it has cut funds to a national marine biological station. Both SHEFC and...
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Cash back pledge is too late
The Canadian province of Alberta's government is reinstating some of the 21 per cent of cuts to higher education it has made in its past three years in office. The Progressive Conservative Party has...
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Teaching: just another subject?
The recent outcry against the Government's plans to ask the Teacher Training Agency to develop a national curriculum for initial teacher training (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, June 21) was extreme and misplaced. Once again...
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Harsh words miss Harris's point
I am sorry that Anthony Cohen (Opinion, É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, June 28) felt it necessary to address the recommendations of the postgraduate review, which I chaired, in somewhat intemperate language, particularly...
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Employers renege on college pay
Further education college managers fear a significant fall in morale and motivation following claims that employers reneged on an understanding over pay. Leaders of the Association for College...
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Growth spurt ends for staying-on rate
The first official signs of another crisis in post-16 education emerged this week. Government figures reveal that growth in the proportion of 16 to 18-year-olds in education and training has tailed...
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Foot and mouth
Say what you like about Euro96, it at least gave academics in financially straitened universities something else to be worried about. A É«ºÐÖ±²¥S reporter ringing a London Guildhall academic the morning...