FE begs for cuts of 2% max
Efficiency savings demanded of the college sector need to be relaxed from 5 per cent a year to a maximum of 2 per cent to prevent serious damage to further education, the Department for Education and...
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Increase in student numbers
Full-time students in further education colleges and sixth-form colleges increased by 6 per cent between November 1994 and November 1995 according to the first returns from the new student data...
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Sectarianism alive in Ulster colleges
Protestants in Northern Ireland are travelling up to 25 miles to avoid studying in the same universities and colleges as Catholics, a conference has been told. Queen's University and Univer-sity of...
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Orbit gambit
Ropelike plumes, and hairlike jets of gas that stream through the sun's atmosphere at 450 kilometres a second, have been pictured in unprecedented detail by a new observatory balanced in space...
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Giant leap in new recruits is deceptive
Enrolments in higher education grew by 6 per cent this academic year compared with 1994/95, figures published this week show, writes Tony Tysome. Recruitment to both first degree and postgraduate...
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IT's the tops for funding
Information technology, materials science and chemistry have won large slices of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's funding for research in 1996/97. Announcing the funding for...
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NRI takeover is a 'model for others'
The first takeover of a public sector research establishment by a university happened this week when Greenwich University officially took possession of the Natural Resources Institute from the...
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Stirling accused of racial bias
The National Union of Students Scotland and Central Scotland Racial Equality Council are investigating Stirling University's treatment of an Ethiopian research student who failed a PhD. Wondimu...
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Growing up fast
Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology last week held a press conference protesting against the previous day's announcement by the university that it was unlikely to renew the contracts of...
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Noteworthy cause
If musical accompaniment is an essential element in all decent crusades, possibly the least surprising announcement of the year is that the Campaign for Free Education is planning a CD to raise funds...
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Clean bowled
Far be it from us to suggest that the Department for Trade and Industry's Exporting Education bulletin is handing out disinformation. But anyone who has been to both Hackney and Singapore will find...
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Northern light
Paul Clark, the Higher Education Funding Council for England's director of quality, has been appointed director of teaching and learning for the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Dr Clark...
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On a roll
(Photograph) - Courses in gaming are booming in the United States, drawing students not only from across America but from the Pacific Rim, Sweden and even the United Kingdom. Lecturers say they are...
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Orbit gambit
(Photograph) - In this image the telescope was set to pick up the green emissions from iron XII ions, which are common at a temperature of 1.5 million Kelvin.
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Orbit gambit
(Photograph) - Orange-emitting helium II ions are formed at about 70,000 K. Such emissions are blotted out by the earth's atmosphere. On the bottom left a plume stretches far into space.