Industrial revolution
(Photograph) - Industrial revolution: Apprenticeships are heading for a renaissance thanks to a Pounds 1.29 billion Government initiative to bring 150,000 youngsters back into industry by the end of...
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Red tape dashes chances
Hundreds of school and college leavers expecting to gain new vocational A levels have had their hopes of a place in higher education dashed by red tape. Admissions chiefs said this week they were "...
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Rejected candidate loses court bid for place
University medical schools have escaped being forced to narrow their entry criteria following a court ruling this week. Conor O'Reilly, an academically qualified teenager who was rejected by Glasgow...
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ACTIN up to tap the cleverness of plants
Planting fields of plastic, and coppicing willows for the village power station are just some of the ways in which British agriculture might have to diversify to keep up with international...
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Looking through the eyes of Islam:Hizb ut-Tahrir
(Photograph) - Looking through the eyes of Islam: a rally by the Islamic extremist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, attracted protests from the National Union of Students this week - but passed off peacefully.
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Taking the pistachio
Harold Ellis, emeritus professor of surgery at London University, has been reminiscing in the British Medical Journal about a ferocious nursing sister, "tall, majestic and Scottish", who ensured that...
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Academic bias slammed
A Training and Enterprise Council chief has launched a scathing attack on the "conspiratorial" neglect of work-based learning by academics, civil servants and politicians. Policy-makers and further...
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UK falls behind the competition
The United Kingdom has much lower levels of participation in full-time education at 16 to 18 than most of our competitor nations, according to new research from the Institute of Education. When 16-...
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Freudian content
How wide-ranging are new higher education minister Eric Forth's ambitions for his new brief? The departmental brief detailing his responsibilities included "content and quality" of higher education....
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Professor young
Liverpool University is harbouring a prodigy. A recent copy of their Precinct newsletter includes a heartfelt plea from "An eight-year-old professor's daughter, tall, blonde and beautiful . . ....
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Grammar rules
Alumni to be proud of numbers two and three: Corpus Christi College, Oxford boasted as undergraduates, at one and the same time, Roger Waterhouse, now vice chancellor of Derby University and Richard...
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Hot stuff
Languid, phlegmatic and even inert are among adjectives that might be used to describe the staff of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals but never, until now, overheated. However, is...
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Peter principle
Patrick Dowling, vice chancellor of Surrey University and former head of civil engineering at Imperial College, was one of the speakers at a conference in honour of Peter Richards, who retires...
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Me, me and Me
Opera singer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who set the Desert Island Discs all-comers record for self-referentiality by choosing eight records of her own performances, has an intellectual soul-mate in...
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Stay-on rates are far lower in north
Staying-on rates among 16 to 18-year-olds reveal a sharp north-south divide. Department for Education figures for 1993/94, released last week, show that all but three of 34 local authorities with...