Carry on campus
Drinking binges, pill popping and cannabis smoking feature with alarming prominence in undergraduate life, according a University of Newcastle upon Tyne study. Some 3,075 second-year students from...
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Monarch of glen takes the high road
Brian Duffield, dean of the faculty of cultural and education studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, has been appointed chief executive of UHI Ltd, the body taking forward plans for a new...
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Teacher reform
The Government has unveiled plans for a school-based teacher training scheme. The Graduate Teacher programme will allow anyone with a degree to train in the classroom for up to a year to gain...
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Jobs reprieved
Two lecturers at University of Wales College, Newport have fought off job cuts because of a rise in student numbers. Some 44 academic job cuts had been planned to help cut a projected Pounds 2.4...
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Colleges fight for title
College principals are worried that the future role of their institutions may be "set in aspic" after Sir Ron Dearing's review of the sector. Their umbrella body, the Standing Conference of...
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Internet
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher education. Job...
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Traditional job routes die hard
Traditional jobs still top most graduates' wish-lists even though such jobs are harder to find and corporate employers prefer students from older universities, according to a survey by the Institute...
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Lincoln campus rescued from brink
The company set up to finance Britain's newest university campus faced liquidation just three months before the campus opened. The University of Lincoln project company had to draw up an emergency...
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Readership inflation
Cambridge University is facing protests from some leading dons about the recent tripling in the number of readerships. They fear that the policy of raising the proportion of readerships to the...
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Drama student reprieve
The Government has announced a Pounds 36 million scheme to help dance and drama students cover the cost of their training. The money, which will be spread over three years from 1997/98, is to be...
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Sectors turn into rivals
Further and higher education are fighting it out for the non-traditional student market, according to a study published today. The study, The FE/HE Interface: A UK Perspective, says some new...
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Graduates diddled on tax coding
Hundreds of thousands of graduates may have paid too much tax because of the Government's failure to fix a faulty computer program. The error has been revealed by accountant Tommy Docherty, who...
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Duffy and the drink
The Association of University Teachers Scotland has been paying tribute to former honorary secretary John Duffy, who has been seconded from Edinburgh University's alcohol research group to be...
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The Martin principle
Setting new standards in the use of the language, or just foreshadowing the job-title changes sure to follow if and when institutes and colleges of higher education are given university status?...
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Spooky stuff
Headhunting is usually defined nowadays as the art of locating new bosses for institutions, but those responsible for finding a new warden for St Antony's College, Oxford, may find Sir Robin Renwick...