Prophet of doom
Prophecy of the week comes from the most recent edition of the Directory of Social Change, where, under "The Baring Foundation", can be read: "Its rate of growth is, as the chairman has noted in...
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Euro-vote against gene patents
The European Parliament voted against a directive allowing the patenting of human genes on Wednesday after seven years of consideration. European Union procedures lay down that a proposal which...
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Cornish campus hopes to kick-start local economy
Cornwall, one of the last counties without a university, is planning to open a campus by the year 2000. The Cornwall Task Force - whose members are drawn from local business, local government and...
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Forgotten past
No Welsh institution would be complete unless there were competing views of how it came to be founded - there appear to be almost as many different explanations of where and how the Welsh Rugby Union...
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Probation in danger
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ Office plans to remove the professional training of probation officers from universities could close university social work departments, destroy the professional credibility of the probation...
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FE gives school sixth-form red light
Fewer than one in five proposals for new or expanded school sixth-forms have received the blessing of the Further Education Funding Council in the last year. The council, which covers England, has...
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War of the Roses
(Photograph) - War of the Roses: Picture-hanging in the Manton Room at Lancaster University, which has won a battle with Leeds University over who exhibits the collection of late Leeds professor...
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Funds for science earmarked
The Office of Science and Technology has earmarked nearly Pounds 21 million for special initiatives in the science budget for 1996/97. Announcing guidelines for the research councils over the next...
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Oxford graduate charter
Oxford university graduates have drawn up a charter with 26 recommendations on research supervision, facilities, employment of graduates in teaching and taught postgraduate courses. The Graduate...
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Engineers find students weak in mathematics
The majority of engineering lecturers surveyed by the Engineering Council believe that the mathematical competence of first-year engineering students is significantly weaker today than it was ten...
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Number cruncher
Tim Holt is to be the next director of the Central Statistical Office and head of the Government statistical service. He is now deputy vice chancellor of Southampton University.
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FE reined in
Scotland's further education colleges have lost the prospect of a spending spree to dispose of funds by the end of March. They have been brought into line with England and Wales, and no longer have a...
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Green fingers
(Photograph) - Green fingers: Tutor Hardial Singh designs a garden by computer on a new course at Bradford and Ilkley Community College's department of alternative education. Students learn to design...
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Lassies boom
The proportion of women undergraduates entering Scottish higher education rose from 43 per cent in 1980/81 to 49 per cent in 1992/93. The latest Scottish Office bulletin says there was an 11.5 per...
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Shephard's staff
Charles Hendry, MP for High Peak in Derbyshire since 1992, is the new parliamentary private secretary to Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education. He graduated from the University of...