Scientists face debt
FUNDING changes suggested by the Dearing committee could deter the best graduates from undertaking science PhDs, warns the Royal Society, Britain's academy of science. In its response to Dearing, the...
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Scot's fee concern mounts
FEARS are growing that the government is contemplating differential tuition fees for a Scottish four-year honours degree for students from different parts of the United Kingdom. The Garrick committee...
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Promise on medicine brings relief
THE DEPARTMENT of Health this week gave a firm assurance that it had no plans or "desire" to take over any more funding of medical education. Doctors feared a move on medical training when health...
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Spoof prize causes stir
A SCIENTIST whose research led to the electric chair being outlawed in two US states fears his work has been trivialised by being awarded a spoof Nobel prize. Neurophysiologist Harold Hillman,...
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Heads of architecture schools are meeting
* Heads of architecture schools are meeting this week to discuss the likely effects of fees on their courses. Like vets, architects undertake five years of undergraduate training, yet are being...
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Blind fury over course axing
SCOTTISH eye specialists are warning of an impending recruitment problem if Glasgow Caledonian University abandons its BSc degree in orthoptics, writes Olga Wojtas. The senate is set to consider a...
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Dearing 'cherry picking' warning
A SENIOR member of the former Dearing committee has warned the government against "cherry picking" parts of the higher education report that was designed to stand as an integrated whole. David Watson...
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Vets plead for more student support
VETERINARY schools face becoming more elitist unless the government gives more financial support to students, according to heads of veterinary schools, writes Julia Hinde. Students face paying...
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Labour post-16 vision 'blurred'
THERE is no clear vision in the government's consultation paper on the future of qualifications for 16 to 19-year-olds, educationists said this week. Qualifying for Success, published last week,...
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Unionists rubbish candidate for Irish president
UNIONIST politicians and Protestant clergy have come out strongly against Mary McAleese becoming the next president of Ireland. But despite a systematic campaign attempting to rubbish her credentials...
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Unhappy hall tutors face bailiffs
FOUR hall tutors are resisting eviction by their employer, Manchester University, which has decided they have been looking after students for too long. The hall tutors have a total of 80 years'...
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Last lone teacher training college seeks university mergers
NORTHERN College of Education, badly hit in the research assessment exercise and this year's funding round, is seeking a merger with Aberdeen and Dundee universities. The college, which has campuses...
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Computer addles timetable
THAMES Valley University's high-tech "new learning environment", held up by the government as a model for the future of higher education, is in chaos because of timetabling and exam resit problems....
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Wake up to library, v-cs told
LIBRARIES need a Pounds 770 million investment before they will be ready for the lifelong learning revolution, says a Department for Culture, Media and Sport report out this week. It calls for the...
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Scotland looks at defence
WHEN the Scottish devolution bill is published later this year it will exclude foreign affairs and defence. These will remain in the hands of Westminster as United Kingdom concerns. But what if...