Data shortage hurts policy
Canadian universities are making policy decisions with inadequate data, according to a Toronto researcher specialising in student surveys. Paul Grayson, director of the Institute for Social Research...
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US battle for students
Traditional non-profit universities in the United States are retaliating against their profit-led competitors after watching them syphon off large numbers of students. Despite claiming that the up-...
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Armenians try to mend fences with Turkey
A group of academics from Armenia made a rare three-day visit to Turkey in an attempt to thaw relations between the two countries. Last month's visit is seen as the first step towards improved...
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Body facts fail medical
Teaching material for students studying human physiology at Liverpool John Moores University is so flawed and misleading that experts have dismissed it as "incorrect", "inadequate" and "outmoded"....
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The mistakes
JMU's material contradicts a standard undergraduate text, An Introduction to Human Physiology, by J. H. Green, by stating that: "Generally, respiratory movements are under the control of the...
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Boost for Welsh research
Welsh Universities will receive an 11 per cent increase to their research grant for 1999-2000, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has confirmed. Institutions will share Pounds 50 million...
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Survey will monitor impact of student fees
Incomes and spending patterns of more than 3,000 students will go under the microscope this summer in a government-commissioned survey designed to measure the impact of fees. The survey, directed by...
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Chaucerian project is winner in awards
The newly established Arts and Humanities Research Board this week announced its first grant winners, with awards totalling Pounds 4.6 million. The board announced more than 300 research awards,...
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Company to profit from chasing student debts
A second Pounds 1 billion lump of debt owed by students has been sold to the private sector. The successful company, which stands to profit from recouping the debt on student loans taken out since...
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Fees protesters end sit-in and pay money
Students at Goldsmiths College ended a week-long sit-in over tuition fees last week. Eight students who received letters expelling them for non-payment have now paid their fees, or made arrangements...
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Degree course dropped as science is shunned
Staffordshire University has become the latest to drop its undergraduate pure chemistry degrees, blaming falling applications. UCAS figures showing applications up to December 15 1998, reveal a big...
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Poetry list saved by Manchester publisher
Oxford University Press says its publishing of contemporary poetry "is to be safeguarded after all" through a deal it has struck with Carcanet Press, the specialist poetry publisher in Manchester....
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Nurses call for better training and resources
Nurse training belongs in higher education, students this week told the Royal College of Nursing Congress in Harrogate. Labour wants to educate 6,000 extra nurses over the next three years and...
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Tory lord attempts to abolish fees for Scots
Former Scottish Office education minister Lord James Douglas-Hamilton is introducing a private member's bill in the House of Lords that would effectively abolish tuition fees for all Scottish...
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Blunkett announces review of TECs
THE government is to review the role that training and enterprise councils play in delivering its lifelong learning agenda. Education secretary David Blunkett told MPs on Wednesday that he wants a...