Cash help for young luvvies
THE government is to launch a new support scheme for dance and drama students to resolve a recruitment crisis. A funding package expected to provide students at independent dance and drama schools...
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Childcare boost for student parents
Welsh further and higher education institutions are being urged to pay more attention to childcare as part of government moves to reduce the number of people claiming benefits. The organisation...
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Hope wings eternal for elderly exiles
The Wing Hong (Eternal Hope) Chinese centre in Glasgow is packed. Groups of elderly people are chatting to one another, a number of them keeping an eye on the elaborate preparations for lunch. Some...
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Golden opportunity
A Chinese academic is travelling to the University of Edinburgh to study the biological chemistry of gold drugs. Dr Juan Zou from Beijing has been granted Pounds 33,669 for a travelling research...
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Plastic on the waves
A scientist at the University of Southampton's department of ship science has joined with the Vosper Thornycroft shipyard to be the first to use fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) materials in high-speed...
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Expat pensioners 'happy'
The myth that older people suffer isolation, financial hardship and language difficulties overseas has been scotched by the findings of a British multi-disciplinary research team with expertise in...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: * 6 per cent of male graduates were unemployed six months after graduating. * 5 per cent of females were unemployed six...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Bangor Gareth Edwards Jones, head of department in the rural resource management department at the Scottish Agricultural College in Edinburgh, has been appointed professor of...
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Feathereds' friend
(Photograph) - Feathereds' Friend: Carmen Gonzaler, a Spanish student from Macelo Spinola College, Seville, is working at the Barn Owl Trust in Devon using the latest technology to aid the declining...
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Sunderland bids for UFI
THE City of Sunderland launched a bid this week to convince the government to set up its University for Industry in the north east. The City Partnership said that the UFI headquarters could bring...
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Marxist propaganda
"If there had been a charge, Marx would never have written Capital, argues a press release from campaigners against the introduction of charges at the British Library. Is this supposed to be a point...
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Colleges overtake schools
Completing our series on widening access to university, Phil Baty reports on further education's role. Further education colleges will soon be the primary recruiting ground for higher education,...
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Private colleges demand subsidy
Private higher education colleges should be subsidised by the public purse to the tune of Pounds 3,000 a student, the sector's leaders will tell the government. In a paper to be submitted to the...
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Euro chiefs fear erosion of role
The traditional position of European universities is under threat, university chiefs have been warned. Universities have lost their monopoly on teaching and research, with global corporations now...
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Big Brother
(Photograph) - Big Brother: Kevin Warwick of Reading University was tracked through his department via a silicon implant in his arm this week. Future intelligent buildings will be able to open doors...