Secrets in minutes
Diana Warwick, chief executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, is quoted by Tony Tysome as defending the secrecy surrounding the deliberations of the Joint Planning Group for...
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Pounds 55m for TECs
The Government has given English training and enterprise councils Pounds 55 million to tackle a wide range of of local business development and training needs. The private sector has pledged and...
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Chip shop
Relative proximity to Silicon Valley must be responsible for the following conversation overheard in a North Beach bookshop in California: "Yeah, he's homeless". "You don't say!". "That's right, he...
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THES price rise
The price of The THES goes up to Pounds 1.10 this week. This is its first price rise in two years despite increases in newsprint costs of 75-80 per cent. Subscriptions will remain at the old price...
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Maritime campus
The University of Greenwich has been given permission for a new campus at the historic Royal Naval College site at Greenwich, sharing it with the National Maritime Museum. An independent trust will...
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Nurse teachers fight pay deal
As Scotland's 12 colleges of nursing and midwifery this week join the higher education sector, nursing teachers are in danger of becoming second-class citizens, the union Unison has warned. Six...
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The Grand Tour in search of ideas
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Geoff Maslen caught up with Sir Ron during his...
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Cuts focus moneyspinning minds
MELBOURNE. Australian universities generate almost 45 per cent - more than Aus$3 billion (31.5 billion) - of their operating revenues from non-Commonwealth sources but because of budget cuts they...
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Biorhythms and blues
Feeling depressed? Robert Thayer has a suggestion to lighten your mood. Everyday moods are perfect natural barometers of our psychological and biological state. They reflect such influences as sleep...
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Conversion courses a catalyst
Your correspondent (THES, August 23) reports the welcome news from the Higher Education Funding Council for England that entry to engineering courses has been boosted by higher introduction...
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Record numbers gain access at Dundee
A record number of unqualified young people have been accepted by Dundee University after completing a rigorous ten-week access programme. At a special "graduation" ceremony, 57 of the 72 students...
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Tales of woe from the researchers
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Sir Ron Dearing's probe into the country's...
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Students sit in against fee rise
WELLINGTON. Simmering opposition to user-pays higher education has boiled over with a week-long student sit-in at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand's southernmost university, late last month....
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Not getting anywhere
Roger Scruton's addendum to his article on animal rights (THES, August 30) does nothing to further his case, first because it is based on unargued assumptions and second because it misses the central...
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Rude Health
Neither Freudian slip nor typographical error, contrary to speculative angst in Antithesis (THES, August 23). "Middlesexy" is the name of Middlesex University's innovative sexual health promotion...