PFI starts rolling
A high-level government committee to examine the scope of the private finance initiative in higher education is to meet later this month amid signs that many institutions are ready to sign up to long...
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Bank thumbs down
The National Union of Students has welcomed the NatWest's decision not to tender for private student loans. NUS president Jim Murphy said that the decision, which follows similar ones by the Midland...
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SNP fund promises
The Scottish National Party claims it would invest around Pounds 240 million in research and development during Scotland's first four years of independence. Higher education would be a key...
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Party time
Student numbers in Scottish higher education institutions rose by around 1 per cent in the current session, according to provisional figures from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. There...
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Foot in the door
Richard Wilson, star of the television sitcom One Foot in the Grave, has been elected rector of Glasgow University for the next three years, beating current rector, TV presenter Johnny Ball, by 1,535...
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Welsh watch
Further education in Wales is to come under Commons scrutiny from the select committee on Welsh affairs. The committee, chaired by Gareth Wardell, Labour MP for the Gower and former geography...
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Red starry eyes
After bitterly rejecting communism just a short time ago, Russia and eastern Europe are falling back into its secure and familiar embrace. Harry Shukman explains an unlikely reconciliation. The...
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Projectionist of the past
Following a career in film studies, Liz-Anne Bawden tells Gail Vines how she is now showing a town's memories at Lyme Regis's museum. Liz-Anne Bawden is proof that there really is life after academia...
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To cut a long Tory short
The culture of power without responsibility heralds not only the end of a government but the disintegration of Conservatism, writes John Gray. We know better than to expect resignations these days -...
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Dropout growth rooted in neglect
Universities and colleges need to provide more support for students to combat growing dropout levels, according to a report from the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. Staying or...
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Fine figures
(Photograph) - Emma Rogers, a third-year on the University of Wolverhampton's BA in ceramics and glass, has won one of the 100 places at the "Ceramic Contemporaries" exhibition at the Victoria and...
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Seismic surname
A stunned welcome to an American scientist who is visiting the United Kingdom this week to talk about his work in seismology - S. G. Schock.
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Shephard calls for vocational drive
The Government has told the new independent careers services to overturn the reputation of vocational qualifications as second-class, and give them parity of esteem with academic qualifications....
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Thesis
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, has been improved and extended with a new listing of research opportunities and a wealth of background reading for April's Tucson II conference on consciousness. As...
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Exams stop play as sport faces fixture fix
Much has been made on the sports pages of the prospect of the FA Cup's fifth round of the stretching into infinity as bad weather forces endless postponements. But the soccer authorities are not the...