Blunkett stitch-up
The Government has been assiduously promoting its spin on Dearing, but blew things badly on launch day by its treatment of the education press. It gave them David Blunkett's statement on the report...
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Shirley not?
But Sir Ron did not have to go to the trouble of memorising his hundreds of paragraphs and conclusions. At the launch meeting for "stakeholders" he summoned the details with one word - "Shirley"....
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Ring leader
Proof positive that Scottish higher education is in dire financial straits. Paul Corrigan, new president of St Andrews University students' association, was to be in London for the Dearing launch,...
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Barr to popularity
Even farther afield is Nick Barr, London School of Economics expert on education finance, whose views Dearing sought. He is in Australia advising on reform of the HECS student finance scheme, admired...
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Volume growth
The university sector may have grown, but be thankful reports on it are growing in price and size a little more slowly. Dearing costs Pounds 135, a little more after inflation than Robbins in 1963....
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Degrees go Ron and on
Alumnus to be proud of no 117 is, to your amazement, Sir Ronald Ernest Dearing, who can boast nine degrees. Only one, in economics from the University of Hull, was secured by the conventional route....
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Howells unveils tracking device
RIGOROUS ways to "identify and track" youngsters' education are being explored by the Government, including plans to compile data on students' progress through higher education, which may be used to...
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A point on acupuncture
The Government has long been urging complementary therapy organisations to "get their house in order" (THES, July 11). The British Acupuncture Accreditation Board was established in 1990 to accredit...
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Bid to boycott the hard sell
Marketing departments are being pressed to take adverts in university directories. Phil Baty reports University marketing heads are calling for a clampdown on publishers of reference directories....
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Exeter rethinks staff losses
Exeter University has revised plans to axe up to 120 staff jobs. Its "restructuring" plan has been rewritten by its academic policy committee, following criticism by senate members. Lecturers' union...
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Exeter University's bid from Millennium Commission turned down
Exeter University's bid for Pounds 33 million from the Millennium Commission to help cover the cost a new campus in Cornwall has been turned down.
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RGO staff plan rescue
A rescue package to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory is being prepared by staff a fortnight after closure plans were announced. The package could mean the 300-year-old RGO stays at its Cambridge...
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Doctorates in House
Huw Richards assesses the members of the new education and science parliamentary committees The science and technology committee can claim to be the best-qualified group in the entire House. Of its...
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Amanda Weaver
(Photograph) - Northern pointes: 21-year-old Amanda Weaver, a third-year student at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, gave her farewell performance, 'Always the same gesture',...
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Roberts departs as Dearing delivers
Sir Gareth Roberts, the man behind the Dearing report, reflects on two tumultuous years as CVCP chairman to Huw Richards WAITING for Dearing may be this week's universal fate, but Gareth Roberts...