Kroto and culture minister to speak at RSA
Nobel prize-winning chemist Sir Harry Kroto and culture secretary Chris Smith are among the speakers at a consultation on plans to establish a National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts...
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Luton head announces retirement
Tony Wood, vice chancellor of Luton University, is to retire in August 1998. A successor is being sought by the university's board of governors. Dr Wood took over the institution in 1985 when it was...
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Leeds colleges consider merger
Airedale and Wharfedale College in Leeds has announced it is considering merging with the city's Park Lane College. The move would create the largest further education college in west Yorkshire, with...
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RAE praised for improving research quality
Gerry McKenna, chairman of the Heads of University Centres of Biomedical Sciences and pro vice chancellor of Ulster University, has praised the research assessment exercises as the single most...
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Engineers overhaul training
The Engineering Council has announced radically revised standards for the education and training of professional engineers. Chartered engineers will need four years' academic study instead of three,...
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Sector urged to meditate
TRANSCENDENTAL meditation - as practised by Conservative party leader William Hague - could solve the crisis in higher education, the head of the Maharishi College of Management and Education has...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: 73 per cent of those whose first destination after HE is full-time employment have permanent or long-term contracts. Some 56...
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Observatory staff bank on rescue plan
Plans to save the 300-year-old Royal Greenwich Observatory from closure will be presented to the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council later this month as the observatory staff propose to...
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Natfhe spurned
The Trades Union Congress has rejected an emergency motion from lecturers' union Natfhe that attacked Government proposals to siphon off money generated by tuition fees to cover bureaucracy. The...
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Study paints Scotland by numbers
Glasgow Caledonian University this week launched an initiative to gather and publish information which it says is vital to a Scottish parliament and everyone concerned with Scotland's government. The...
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Four Scottish academics to study the referendum
Four Scottish academics, three of them working in England, have won Pounds 56,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council to study the referendum. David Denver, reader in politics at Lancaster...
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Scotland looking set for a "Yes, yes" vote for devolution
As The THES went to press Scotland looked set for a "Yes, yes"vote for devolution. In a Mori poll conducted on the Sunday before the vote, 68 per cent said they were certain to vote. Of those, 77 per...
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Tuition fee muddle hits access courses
Government "confusion" over student funding and the prospect of tuition fees is putting students off access courses, according to City and Islington College, pioneer and one of the country's biggest...
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Dearing queries will fill CVCP agenda
Questions are likely to be thicker on the ground than answers at next week's annual residential meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. It will be almost entirely taken up with...
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Assessments 'to go'
THE current round of teaching quality assessments may be ditched before they are complete, despite the tens of millions of pounds already spent on the exercise. Diana Warwick, chief executive of the...