Lifetime learning paper lacks policy backup
A new learning culture in which individuals and employers take more responsibility for education and training is the vision behind the Government's new Lifetime Learning paper, said education and...
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Queen's first with its peace process triumph
Queen's University, Belfast, has edged ahead in the race with Ulster's other university to capitalise on the momentum of the peace process. Its plans for a massive research and enterprise park in the...
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Nolan says no to more rules
Higher education does not need more external regulation to make it open and accountable, Lord Nolan, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, has concluded, writes Tony Tysome. The...
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RC college in merger
Scotland's national Roman Catholic college of education, St Andrew's, has joined forces with Glasgow University to set up the Glasgow School of Education. The agreement builds on existing...
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Going down
(Photograph) - Going down: physics student Hamied Haroon bungee jumped in a wheelchair from the UMIST students' union in Manchester last week to protest at its lack of a lift. Disabled Mr Haroon had...
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Chris-cross
Lucky Bill Clinton on his visit to Queen's University Belfast last week, got to meet Chris, the university's porter. Chris was first in line to shake hands with the president. In fact, Bill got to...
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Special branch
All the president's men went a branch too far. Secret Service agents ordered the removal of an historic tree which would have obscured their view of the chief for a few seconds. But Queen's refused...
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Pounds 5m threat to food research
The Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is planning cuts of Pounds 5 million in its Pounds 121 million research budget over 1996/97, a move that is likely to lead to job cuts and threaten...
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Shady business
The university had been deluged with the president's men - issuing instructions but not guaranteeing that the president would visit the university. The first time that vice chancellor Gordon...
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Doggone
A shaggy dog story from Heriot-Watt University, one of whose students graduated in absentia, received his degree certificate by post, but lost it before he had even opened it. Several months later...
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Peter blue
The Royal Institution is old and venerable and prides itself on its old and venerable superlatives, such as the fact that its annual Christmas lectures are 166 years old this year. Director Peter Day...
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Poison pen
The wild and wacky organisation, Higher Education Managers and Liaison Officers for Community programmes, a forum in which northern universities can discuss the European Socrates initiative, delights...
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Eco logical
One question of symbolism that semiologist Umberto Eco has failed to unveil until now is his own surname. Theorists have claimed it is Jewish, Sardinian and Albanian, among others. But now Eco has...
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Cold front
Stirling University students have delayed the election of their student president until February following the failure of Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson to accept their invitation to stand. No doubt...
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Ladies' day
The governing bodies of the regional technical colleges in Ireland have been exhorted by Irish education minister Niamh Bhreathnach to ensure they are "gender balanced". This they have achieved, but...