Lassies boom
The proportion of women undergraduates entering Scottish higher education rose from 43 per cent in 1980/81 to 49 per cent in 1992/93. The latest Scottish Office bulletin says there was an 11.5 per...
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Shephard's staff
Charles Hendry, MP for High Peak in Derbyshire since 1992, is the new parliamentary private secretary to Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education. He graduated from the University of...
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Cape compact
Closer scientific collaboration between South Africa and the United Kingdom was signalled this week with an agreement between the two countries. Science minister David Hunt, visiting South Africa,...
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Statistical first
The Higher Education Statistics Agency this week produced its first publication, Higher Education Statistics for the United Kingdom 1992/93 (129 pages, Pounds 15) in conjunction with the Government...
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No negotiations
Natfhe's further education sector conference has endorsed the union's executive decision not to negotiate over new contracts with employers at Acas. This week's initial ACAS meeting between the...
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Lords hear of need for rare research
Patients with rare diseases must be able to be referred to university hospitals to ensure that clinical research into such problems is not threatened, a House of Lords inquiry has been told. Scottish...
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External study's surprise success
The University of London's external programme, where students can study for a degree from anywhere in the world, has had a 52 per cent increase in enquiries following a brief advertising campaign....
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Multi-campus plan for Brum
Birmingham could get a multi-campus university on the American state university model if plans to link the University of Central England and East Birmingham College go ahead. East Birmingham is...
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Access students reprieved
Thousands of access course students whose plans to go on to higher education were jeopardised by the abolition of the mature students' allowance have been reprieved. The Department for Education and...
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Rector faces prison
Fadil Sulejmani, rector of the ethnic Albanian University of Tetovo, Macedonia is in custody facing charges of incitement to resist the police that carry a prison sentence of between one and five...
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Giants fall victim to HEFCE cut
Manchester University and Imperial College - the third and fifth largest recipients of funding council research money - have dropped into the safety net provided for losers in Higher Education...
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Satellite snooping approaches legal orbit
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. An American academic says she was asked by the Los Angeles police department this...
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Male fish play mating game to boost yields
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. A biologist has mated two male fish, producing some "extra" male offspring with...
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American roots in Siberia
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. Geneticists believe that the first humans reached America 30,000 years ago by...
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Video stills the criminal star
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. The video footage of a murderer's getaway car, which was so blurred that not even...