Loan Bill survives exodus
Mature student drop-outs worry vice chancellors. Drop-out rates are still outpacing the growth in student numbers, a new survey shows. Drop-outs rose by 10 per cent to 54,000 in the 1994/95 academic...
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Double-or-quit threat to science
The Government has launched an Pounds 18 million scheme for funding research equipment in the hope that its investment will be doubled from private sources. Universities will be allowed to bid for...
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Ministers eye tuition fees
Alternative funding for higher education, including tuition fees, is needed if expansion is to continue, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development education ministers have agreed. In a...
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Missile guidance
Mathematicians are great. They have recently shown us how to maximise our lottery winnings; at what stage of emptiness our beer cans are most unstable; and to walk in the rain because running leaves...
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Bad tidings
Colin McCallum, Strathclyde's director of external affairs and development, was in Canada over Christmas when his father-in-law rang to say: "I've got some bad news for you - your house is flooded."...
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Hacks on heat
Geographers may have to revise their old assurances that the climate of the west of Scotland is wet and warm. Last week's conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers...
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Tertiary tricks
Probing another stereotype, psychologists at the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education questioned fresh-faced undergraduates to find how they ensure they do well in their essays. Tender first years...
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Classic cliches
Psychologists explore behind those superficial stereotypes to find the fundamental . . . er . . stereotype underneath. A study of claims that, among orchestral players, brass players are beer-...
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Flamingo road
Forget the status symbol of a Jaguar car on a newly-gravelled drive. Derek Drummond, professor of architecture at McGill University in Montreal, thinks a better sign to watch for is the presence of a...
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Midwife crisis
Also in need of a new name, or rather new generic title, is Paul Lewis, academic head of midwifery and family health at Bournemouth University's Institute of Health and Community Studies. Is he...
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Bart's simplification
Crying out for a more snappy name is the new "St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital school of medicine and dentistry (at Queen Mary and Westfield College)". The college has tried to shorten...
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Wild card course packs them in
The further education centre that last year set up the country's first rock music management course has now worked out how to attract new students to further education. The answer lies very much in...
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Experts split on shift to basics
Academics who have joined forces to produce a book on Government policy options are split over calls for a reduction in higher education funding. Contributing authors to Options for Britain: A...
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Ethics reports on animal organ transplants multiply
In the rush to examine the ethics of transplanting animal organs into humans, three different top committees are to produce reports, writes Aisling Irwin. The Government this week announced the...
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Adviser attacks NVQ report for 'soft-pedalling'
A hotly-anticipated Government-sponsored report calling for a radical overhaul of the implementation of national vocational qualifications has been criticised by a leading report adviser. The adviser...