Why students mind about the gap year
Two A-level veterans planning a year off tell Alison Utley of the ups and downs of the last week AT THE beginning of the week Josie Allies's plan to work in a Maidstone solicitors' office for a year...
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Fees charge threatens relations with Europe
BRITISH university relations with Europe could suffer unless the Government clarifies tuition fee arrangements for EU students, the British Council has warned. No mention was made in the Dearing...
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Ulster's children set to flee across the border
A MASS exodus of Northern Ireland students across the border is being predicted in the wake of the Dearing review. Sir Ron Dearing's proposal to introduce fees came precisely as they were abolished...
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Chair requires bottom
There is just one problem with the education trade's willingness to appoint committees and commissions of inquiry - who can be found to chair them? The Association of University Teachers is engaged...
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Desert storm
Wanted - details of somebody called John Casey, author of a panoramic assault on Dearing in The Spectator. Paragraph two begins: "'Higher education,' the very term is like a knell. It brings to mind...
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Healthy smells
There has been something in the air at Liverpool John Moores University over the past three months. Fifty lecturers, technicians and research students in the school of biomolecular sciences have been...
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Ladybird ladybird
(Photograph) - Ladybird ladybird: Postgraduate Ben Raymond is a York University researcher investigating whether ladybirds find their aphid prey by smell.
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Fact file
* 78.5 per cent of the 1.72 million students in the UK are undergraduates * Overseas students in the UK number 196,346, comprising 11.4 per cent of the total * 43.5 per cent of UK first-year, full-...
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Sticking point
One of the things that inspired the new Institute of Learning and Teaching was a very sticky statistic. Dearing committee members found the higher education sector spent less than 1 per cent of its...
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FILTHE joke
The new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is affectionately known as "quacker, but what of Sir Ron's proposed Institute for Learning and Teaching in higher education? Would-be fellows...
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Ministers pull plug on college fraud unit
Higher education's only national organisation fighting admissions fraud is facing the withdrawal of "essential" financial support from the Department for Education and Employment. The Universities...
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Pounds 300m for good measure
The National Physical Laboratory, the nation's guarantor of measurements, looks set to be rebuilt with the help of a Pounds 300 million Private Finance Initiative scheme. Founded in 1900, NPL ensures...
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Cern wins US jackpot
Hundreds of millions of dollars for the world's largest particle-smashing experiment is set to pour into Europe from the United States after months of uncertainty. According to Cern in Geneva, where...
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Fifth framework research programme
The European Commission has proposed boosting its forthcoming fifth framework research programme with a budget of Ecu 16.3 billion (Pounds 10.7 billion), writes Olga Wojtas. The proposed budget for...
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Fees threaten tough era
RUTHLESS management practices from the private sector could come into higher education with the Goverment's decision to charge students fees. Education lawyers are warning institutions to crack down...