UK marked by diversity
Striking differences in the student profiles of Britain's higher education institutions emerge in figures just released. Variations in numbers of overseas, part-time, mature, disabled and ethnic...
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You pay more to do it your own way
Students who choose less well-worn paths to higher education could end up paying more of the costs, warns a report out this week, writes Harriet Swain. Latest analysis of education policy in 29...
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Goodbye to 'hellos'
The Association of Graduate Recruiters has warned that employers are not queuing up to offer "golden hellos" to new graduates. A survey of 264 of its members carried out last autumn by the Institute...
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Funny business
Christopher Grey's article ("Business of being allies", THES, September 25) must have appalled most business lecturers. * Students join business courses because this is their chosen career. People do...
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New principal promises to foster a 'united vision'
Ian Johnston's first term as principal of Glasgow Caledonian University promises to be full of interest. The unfair dismissal case being brought by his sacked predecessor, Stan Mason, is set to...
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TECs waste public funds, say colleges
The Pounds 1.4 billion of public money spent on education and training through the training and enterprise councils is wasteful, and leads to poor quality provision, further education leaders said...
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Chemical industry takes HEFCE to task
The funding councils were this week charged by the Chemical Industries Association of failing to take into account the views of industry during the consultation over the future of the research...
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15-year plan will focus on older people
The government this week began drawing up arrangements for the launch of the second Foresight programme - aimed at encouraging industry, government and academics to identify research needs and market...
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Hungry creatures
When food is plentiful, the number of creatures who feed on it rises. But so does the number of creatures who feed on them, increasing the length of the food chain, ecologists have found. Researchers...
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Bladder relief
A computer program that can predict who will survive a stroke is being used to identify the causes of incontinence. Information on pressures in the bladder and flow rates will be fed into a computer...
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Suicide cells' role in the explosion of over-65s
Cells lining our digestive system are more likely to commit suicide the older we get, according to researchers at the University of Manchester and the Paterson Institute. "These stem cells live on a...
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Good job hunting
Graduates do not find jobs so hard to come by as they once did, but they still need pointers, reports Olga Wojtas Despite growing fears of a new recession, there is as yet little sign of graduate...
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Free-speech champion may be sent to library
Free-speech champion Suzi Clark has lost her internal appeal against redeployment at the University of Middlesex. Ms Clark, the university's head of media relations, has in essence been gagged. She...
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The business of criticising the critics
Criticising those of his staff who dare to raise complaints against him appears to be a speciality of Hugh Jenkins, dean of the Anglia Polytechnic University business school. Last week Whistleblowers...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday Home in London at 12.30am. Two down, two to go. Reaching half-time of the party political conference marathon is semi-bliss. Last night's joint higher education unions fringe meeting at the...