Hull plans Moors learning centre
Now Hull University is set to tackle one of the few remaining higher education wildernesses in the United Kingdom with the development of a University of the Moors for north Yorkshire. Although the...
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Rice designers go back to their roots
A new breed of "designer" rice, so productive that it could make a significant dent in Third-World food problems, is being developed by scientists in the United Kingdom and the Philippines....
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Slimline tonic for the shape of UK business
There is rather less of George Bain than there used to be - three-and-a-half stone less to be precise, after a highly successful slimming campaign by the principal of London Business School. But the...
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Enrolment bonus for colleges
Colleges exceeded their own student growth projections between 1992/93 and 1993/94, according to Further Education Funding Council figures released this week. Overall there has been a 6 per cent...
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Acas looks at Silver Book
College lecturers who refuse to abandon local authority working conditions are under attack in two disputes between employers and unions that are seen as test cases for the survival of Silver Book...
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Grape expectations
Universities are improving Italy's favourite wine. Paul Bompard reports. The quality of Chianti wine is very close to the Italian heart. It is a key element of regional pride for Tuscans....
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Fergie college provides digital skills for jobless graduates
The secretarial college that taught the Duchess of York to type is being filled by unemployed graduates paying a princely Pounds 2,000 for a three-month course which promises an alternative route...
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Technical patches
New science minister Ian Taylor is considering setting up a group of vice chancellors and captains of industry to discuss boosting links between firms and universities. Outlining the Department of...
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OST inquiry
The transfer of the Office of Science and Technology to the Department of Trade and Industry will be the subject of an inquiry by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, as part of an...
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Internet news
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
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Ways and Mensa to get ahead
Warwick University is making a bid to recruit students with the highest IQ by collaborating with Mensa on a series of short degree-accredited courses. Mensa, the society for people with high IQs...
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Edwards urges AUT to action
Cyril Edwards, the professor who was made redundant by Goldsmiths College last year, is appealing to the Association of University Teachers not to drop its High Court action against the institution....
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Morale hits the pits at Anglia
A majority of staff in one faculty at Anglia Polytechnic University has passed a vote of no confidence in management following substantial redundancies. The 16 redundancies in the faculty of the...
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Silver book staff frozen out
Thousands of further education college lecturers are facing the imposition of a salary freeze for the second year running after the breakdown of pay talks. The Colleges' Employers' Forum is again...
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Quality time
The Higher Education Quality Council has published Managing for Quality: Stories and Strategies, which contains 56 case histories designed to steer academic leaders and managers through current...