Don's diary
Monday The BBC Wednesday Plays and postwar British drama project, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is now in its second year and my mail is becoming relentless. Mondays are...
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External assessors need a fairer deal
ENDof term, Wimbledon, the lure of 2. Such are the delights of late June and early July. External examining, on the other hand, is unlikely to be what academics enjoy most about the start of summer....
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Saving for a brainy sort of pay
TRADITIONALLY, there have been three ways of financing higher education: through tuition fees, state support, or private charitable contributions. But I would like to propose a fourth option - the...
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Blackstone promises no dilution of A levels
The Government will not "water down the standard of A levels", education and employment minister Tessa Blackstone insisted this week. Baroness Blackstone was keen to appease her detractors amid...
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On-job training is way forward
There are too many young people in schools, colleges and universities, Cambridge University professor of education and senior government adviser David Hargreaves said this week. More young people...
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Wiles plus Fermat equals a tidy sum
British mathematician Andrew Wiles was today due to receive the coveted and unique Wolfskehl Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem - marking the climax of one of the greatest mathematical...
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Campbell gets science policy role
ANNE Campbell, MP for Cambridge, is to become John Battle's private parliamentary secretary, giving the former member of the House of Commons select committee on science and technology an influential...
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Leslie and his third age eye-opener
Leslie Kennedy-Perry lost out on higher education first time around because he was with the RAF fighting in the second world war. Now, aged 76, he is studying part time for a masters degree in...
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Older and wiser: the over-60s flock to learn
PENSIONERS are becoming a powerful force in higher education, according to a report to be discussed at a seminar next week. It reveals that the over-60s are more likely to enter post-school education...
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Black tea gets the green light
The good old cup of English tea is presenting scientists with a chemical mystery which may well have a happy ending. Until now nutritionists have dismissed black tea, used mostly in European brews,...
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Times they are a-changin'
The Times, they are a changing - literally. After more than two decades of resistance, a Bill in the House of Lords this month may signal time out for a great British institution. As astronomers...
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Raoul Franklin to retire
City University's vice chancellor Raoul Franklin has announced that he is to retire at the end of August next year. Professor Franklin will have been in the post for 20 years.
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In the frame
(Photograph) - Gabby Leigh, a final-year student at the University of Wolverhampton, has made a giant steel camera as part of her final year Exhibition.
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Burning up
Road rage has hit the Higher Education Quality Council. Staff at the HEQC's London and Birmingham offices were already furious to hear they would be expected to commute to Cheltenham, where the...
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'Unfair' funding attacked
NEW rules on distributing money are unfair and impracticable, claim universities expecting to lose cash from the changes. At least ten vice chancellors are discussing opposition to decisions on a new...