Strike threats issued
Lecturers' unions want a new deal from New Labour. THES reporters look forward to turbulent conferences and ask four academics why they will not join a union LECTURERS have delivered an ultimatum to...
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Kroto wants more baskets
Britain's only science Nobel prize winner this decade has said that research funding should not be limited to just a few universities, writes Julia Hinde. When Sir Harry Kroto was being presented...
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The Irish radicals
NORTHERN Ireland began to investigate a credit accumulation and transfer system only a year ago, but has produced the most radical proposals of all. It aims to develop a single post-14 credit...
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Kent does a rejig to avoid a shortfall
The University of Kent has agreed a restructuring programme to deal with its predicted Pounds 2-million funding shortfall. The university is to cut 35 academic and 55 support staff posts. An early...
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What is a credit scheme?
TRSHA credit accumulation scheme aims to give students flexibility, allowing them to move between departments and institutions, and to dip in and out of education. Such schemes break down the full...
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Scotland got there first
Scotland pioneered the new approach to credit when all 21 higher education institutions formally backing the Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (Scotcat) framework in 1991. This established a...
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Temporary plight of solo mums
Women of Afro-Caribbean origins are four times as likely as white women to have children out of wedlock, researchers claim. A three-year study by researchers at the Policy Studies Institute in London...
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Light on arthritis
RESEARCHERS have made a breakthrough in the battle against Rheumatoid Arthritis. Brian Stutton at King's College London's Randall Institute and Michael Taussig of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge...
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Baby bio
EDINBURGH scientists are aiming to produce a stage-by-stage, chronological listing of the tissues present in the first eight weeks of the development of the human embryo. The university's...
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Double first in love affairs
The better educated you are, the more likely you are to have an affair, new research on sexual attitudes has found. Men and women with degrees and A levels are almost twice as likely to have an...
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Worthless without that piece of paper at the end
Adult learning is not valued unless it leads to a formal qualification. Findings from a study of adult education and its impact on employment show that women and those from poorer backgrounds...
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Canadians club together
Canada's most populous province has set up a half-billion dollar endowment that may help offset recent tuition fee increases. The Ontario government plans to match the Can$250 million (Pounds 110...
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Take one sink, some citric acid and create a scientist
John Nicholson's new science course at the University of East Anglia is down to earth. Its modest requirements are a sink, electricity and some tables easily furnished by most village halls. Ideally...
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National training plans to be reviewed
Plans for a teacher training national curriculum are under review by the new Government, education secretary David Blunkett said this week. The Teacher Training Agency's highly criticised core...
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First-class war with a phobia
The last eight essays Kevin Reah wrote in his final year at the Open University were outstanding by anybody's reckoning, five receiving marks of 95 per cent and the remaining three 100 per cent,...