Student vote 'not decisive' on poll
The student vote is unlikely to be a decisive factor in setting next year's general election date, says a leading electoral expert. Recent reports have suggested that the Prime Minister might pick...
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Embassy bombers link denied
TWO British universities have vehemently denied teaching students how to make bombs following the jailing this week of two Palestinian former students for 20 years for plotting the 1994 bombings of...
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Scotland heads for FE bursary crisis
MORE than 100 students who faced the prospect of quitting Clydebank College because its bursary funds had run out have won a reprieve. The Scottish Office has agreed to speed up payments from the...
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Gulf syndrome probed
MAJOR Ian Hill went to the Gulf as a healthy theatre superintendent. Within days he was confined to a hospital bed. Now his family say he is dying. No one doubts that Major Hill and possibly up to 2,...
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Students face tough Xmas
CHRISTMAS and New Year is a busy time for Georgina Watts. Manager of the University of Central England's student union advice centre, she says that the number of hardship cases peaks after Christmas...
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Rooftop protests at Stoke
STAFF and students at Stoke-on-Trent College are demanding to know how internal and external audits failed to spot a 20 per cent shortfall in students. Governors were expected to report last night on...
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... and getting better at Staffordshire
Geography: Staffordshire Unversity, 1992 rating: 1, 1996 rating: 2 Scoring low in the RAE would be enough to make some departments pack up their microscopes and go home, but the division of geography...
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Reith on race
The 1997 Reith Lectures will be given by Patricia J. Williams, professor of law at Columbia University in New York. The five-lecture series, titled Double Binds and Double Blinds, will look at the...
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Leverhulme contest
More than 360 academics from the humanities and social sciences have applied for a handful of prestigious Leverhulme personal research professorships. Between four and six posts, worth Pounds 55,000...
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Peace campus call
Joe Hendron, SDLP MP for West Belfast, and Cecil Walker, Unionist MP for North Belfast, are urging prime minister John Major to salvage Ulster University's plans for a peaceline campus which would...
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Reading on rise
The 1995/96 British Library annual report notes a record 476,762 visits to reading rooms - a 3 per cent increase on 1994/95. More than 4.38 million documents, up 6 per cent, were supplied to remote...
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Unions reject 5% pay rise
FURTHER industrial action is expected in higher education following the unions' unanimous rejection of the latest pay offer from employers. But the two sides are expected to agree to set up an...
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Gloucester comes to rescue campus
THE three-year battle to save Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education's redundant Gloucester campus is nearly won after a cash injection from Gloucester City Council. The council hopes...
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17 per cent more students in FE
STUDENT numbers in further education rose 17 per cent last academic year, the Further Education Funding Council reports. The figures come from the Individualised Student Record, introduced in 1994/95...
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Delay on LSE fees
THE INCOMING director of the London School of Economics has refused to commit the school to undergraduate tuition fees, despite approval for the idea from the court of governors. Anthony Giddens said...