Scottish opera school hits Lottery jackpot
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama is set to open a new opera school to mark its 150th anniversary in 1997, with the help of Pounds 2.5 million from the National Lottery. The college's...
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Research spend
Industrial expenditure on R&D in 1994 increased by 5 per cent to Pounds 9.5 billion in cash terms compared to 1993, according to figures published this week by the Central Statistical Office....
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Rich pickings
Wealthy, white and well-connected students are still much more likely to succeed in the law than their less well-heeled peers from ethnic minorities, according to a survey published by the Law...
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Bargaining battle
The Association of University Teachers and Natfhe, the university and college lecturers union, have hit a stumbling block in their talks over single table pay bargaining. Leaders of the two unions...
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Poverty protest
The National Union of Students organised a march to protest at increasing student hardship on Thursday. At a rally in Kennington Park, London, NUS president Jim Murphy said: "We are calling on the...
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Allocations increase
The Further Education Funding Council published its funding allocations for 1995/96 this week. The provisional allocations, confirmed this week, were published in the THES on the May 26 this year. In...
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Men's sex drive led to the naked ape
As the days get colder, and you long for the early days when humans were covered in fur like other mammals, consider a new theory which blames the loss of our hairy covering on our sexual urges. The...
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Rich elite to get richer
The English funding council took its first step towards linking funding to its controversial teaching asses-sment exercise this week by announcing that the allocation of Pounds 4 million through a...
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Case for the defence
(Photograph) - Case for the defence: "There's no difference between a boxer in a ring and a barrister in a courtroom," according to law student and boxer Alex Mehta. "One fights with his mind, the...
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Tables may be turned
This could be the last year that schools and colleges have to put up with the "serious flaws" contained in the schools and colleges league tables published this week by the Department for Education...
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Lifetime learning inadequate, admits Government
Progress towards lifetime learning targets is insufficient, admits a Government paper leaked to David Blunkett, shadow education and employment secretary this week. The draft document Lifetime...
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FE college results
(Table) - This week the Department for Education and Employment produced performance data for the English further education colleges for the third time. We publish here the full figures along with...
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Missing person
The person pictured in our story on the Audetel TV system was a member of staff of the Independent Television Commission, not Pat Rabbitt of the University of Manchester (THES, October ). The ITC...
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Top among equals
Tom Blundell, chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, has won this year's Opportunity 2000 award for "top level commitment" to equal opportunities in the public...
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This way out?
(Photograph) - This way out? The London School of Economics' decision-making process over whether to bid for the soon-to-be-vacant Bart's Hospital site will take an important step forward next week...