Top-up fees law set for Euro row
THE government may fall foul of European law if it legislates to prevent British universities charging top-up fees, it was claimed this week. Liberal Democrat education spokesmen have warned that...
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Student housing benefit claims rejected
CITY council officers have refused to meet thousands of pounds-worth of housing benefit claims from Oxford Brookes university students. The students now have six weeks in which to bring a test case...
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Industry rejects Dearing Pounds 500m funding plea
The UK pharmaceutical and chemical industries have given a "resounding no" to a revolving loan fund suggested by Dearing to help plug the Pounds 500 million university infrastructure funding gap. A...
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Gates pleads the case for good teachers
Billionaire US software magnate Bill Gates warned this week that the Government's plans for a computer-based National Grid for Learning would be fruitless unless teachers were given proper training...
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Deans call for extra Pounds 25m
Humanities call for cash THE proposed Arts and Humanities Research Council would need extra money if it is to work, say university deans. The Council of University Deans of Arts and Humanities has...
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Edinburgh offers way to forum
Royal Society of Edinburgh offers help The Royal Society of Edinburgh has made a bid to house the Scottish higher education forum proposed by the Garrick committee, the Scots version of Dearing. The...
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Space scientists eager for Cassini mission
British scientists will be watching with bated breath this week for the launch of one of the most ambitious space missions since planetary exploration began. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, an...
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Leicester and Warwick seek medical status
The universities of Leicester and Warwick are preparing a bid for a joint undergraduate medical school. The new school would be able to accept an initial intake of 300 - 175 based at Leicester and...
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Institutions sign up for greening agenda
Twenty-five higher education institutions have signed up to a new two-year programme aimed at greening Britain's universities and colleges. The HE21 project, run by the environmental charity Forum...
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Scots display record performances
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's annual report has revealed that in the last ten years, student numbers have risen by more than 60 per cent, while public funding has fallen by 16 per...
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Campaign for disabled wins Lottery cash
The National Lottery Charities Board has given Pounds 379,513 to Skill, the national bureau for students with disabilities to help it develop services. Skill is the main voluntary organisation in the...
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Scotland receives Pounds 27.5m advance
THE Scottish Office has released an advance payment of Pounds .5 million to higher education institutions in a bid to ease the ongoing student grants fiasco. And the National Union of Students...
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Crisis warning on basic skills
A startling warning that teenagers' ability in basic reading, writing and mathematics are at a crisis level in Northern Ireland has been heard at a conference on under-achievement. Belfast Institute...
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Uplifting choice
(Photograph) - Liverpool John Moores University's new engineering and science centre has been nominated for a Royal Institute of British Architecture award. The RIBA jury says the building is an '...
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Cresson calls for entry deal
STUDENT mobility across Europe is hampered by the lack of agreement on entry requirements and fee-charging in higher education, Edith Cresson, European commissioner for education, training and youth...