Can do kendo
Can do kendo: Cheltenham and Gloucester college of higher education students Yuichiro Kishigami and Sotaro Honda who won the Mumeishi Threes international clubs competition at kendo - Japanese sword...
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NHS students bring better funding
The University of Central England in Birmingham is to stop recruiting extra full-time students funded by the funding councils to avoid bad debt and bureaucracy. Over the next four years, it will...
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Blunkett sets goals for skills council
The government has laid out its spending plans and targets for the new Learning and Skills Council, which takes control of post-16 education and training from April. The LSC's £5.5 billion grant for...
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Oxbridge statistics point to class bias
Accusations of elitism at Cambridge and Oxford resurfaced this week as the latest figures revealed that, proportionately, white public school boys still stand a far better chance than any other group...
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Chatham House loses first female director
Chris Gamble, the first female director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, is to resign just two years after taking the job. Dr Gamble, who is leaving to spend more...
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Dropout rate hits nursing targets
Universities and colleges must improve clinical placements and cut dropout rates if they are to meet targets for increasing the number of student nurses, according to a report from the Royal College...
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College ethos is key to success
The ethos and management style of a further education college has a greater impact on students' achievements than student origin, researchers have concluded. A report on a study by the Learning and...
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Offbeat sect offers theology degree
A Christian fundamentalist church that believes in raising the dead is offering degree courses in theology. The Peniel Pentecostal Church, at the centre of political controversy in Brentwood, Essex,...
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Queen's, Ulster win £40m funding
Six research projects are to benefit from a £40 million investment under the government's Support Programme for University Research in Northern Ireland. Earlier this year, Sean Farren, minister for...
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Whistleblowers: Exeter v-c criticised
The lord chancellor has criticised Exeter University vice-chancellor Sir Geoffrey Holland for a "perverse and unreasonable" decision to block a grievance hearing for one of his senior staff. Ruling...
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Analysis: listening, but not yet doing
Race equality for academic staff has become a priority for vice-chancellors, funding councils and trade unions in the past 18 months. The publication of the McPherson report into black teenager...
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Don's Diary
Thursday, week one High up Mount Musallah in Bulgaria, home of Orpheus and scene of his dismemberment by angry Thracian women - far, far from the port-encrusted cloisters with their relentless...
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Glittering prizes
The following have been elected to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences: Ash Amin , University of Durham; Sara Arber , University of Surrey; Sue Atkins , Cabinet Office; George...
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In the news: Kevin Warwick
Not all his fellow scientists were happy when Kevin Warwick was chosen to give the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, which started this week. Some responded by calling Reading University's...
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Fat lady sings
Knives were sharpened for the recent final of the University Chefs' Challenge 2000 in London, in which 16 residential and catering services teams competed to cook a meal within a set time, in front...