Most find degree of success in job market
Almost 70 per cent of UK students find employment when they leave higher education, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show. First Destinations of Students Leaving Higher Education...
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Brand to appeal against sacking
Solicitors acting for the sacked Edinburgh University lecturer Christopher Brand say they will next week lodge an appeal against the university's decision. The self-declared "scientific racist" lost...
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John Moores gets into the swing
Academics at Liverpool John Moores University's centre for sport and exercise sciences have developed a computerised system to analyse golf swings. Scientists are compiling a database of the swings...
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Spin-offs help Strathclyde do the business
Snake venom and a monitoring aerial have helped Strathclyde University scoop two out of seven business awards from the Glasgow Development Agency. The Business Start-Up of the Year Awards net each...
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Swansea initiatives get Pounds 1.3m from ESF
The University of Wales, Swansea, has been awarded nearly Pounds 1.3 million by the European Social Fund to run four information technology-based projects. The money will finance projects aimed at...
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Warning over new plans for sports academy
A leading sports scientist has warned that university sport could suffer because of the Government's controversial plans for the new British Academy of Sport. Tom O'Reilly, professor of sports...
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GCSE exam passes hit a record high
The pass rate for GCSE exams is at a record high. The results, announced this week, show a 0.4 per cent increase in grades A to C, the grades said to be equivalent to a pass in the old O level. There...
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Old workers mentally outclass aged dons
Despite a lifetime of stimulation, top dons' brains deteriorate with age just as quickly as those of anyone else, according to new research. Research by psychologists from the Australian National...
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Diving provider left to sink or swim
THE Department for Education and Employment appears to have washed its hands of a funding row that could leave a further education college fighting a costly court battle, writes Alan Thomson. The...
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Government fails to stem tide
AS MANY as 30,000 more students are fighting for a university place this year compared with last year, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service said as The THES went to press. Early signs...
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Tuition fees in Scotland
The Government's decision to introduce student tuition fees in 1998 has also created unforeseen problems in Scotland, as students who have just completed Highers appear to be spurning the Certificate...
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PGCE in decline
THE number of applications for places on secondary Post Graduate Certificate of Education courses has dropped for the fourth year running, figures out this week show. By last Saturday, a total of 18,...
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Mind the gap
Tony Higgins, chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, took about 40 telephone calls a day last week from journalists eager for the latest clearing information. This might...
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Laddered nets
The global village promised by the pioneer Netties has yet to extend to Papua New Guinea where a correspondent reports that the system has been down for the best part of a month. There was a brief...
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Name calling
Getting mistaken for the other place is an occupational hazard of cities with more than one higher education institute, but Southampton University is still wild with the Express on Sunday for a...