Anti-sleaze policy too slow to arrive
The fourth Nolan report is published today, with institutions being criticised for complacency Universities and colleges have been too slow to adopt "anti-sleaze" recommendations from the Nolan...
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Fraud inquiry leaves training hanging in the balance
Colleges in the Midlands fear losing millions of pounds worth of training contracts as the future of their local training and enterprise council hangs in the balance. Initiating a Pounds 1 million...
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Bar flies
Mary McAleese, newly elected to the Irish presidency, has arrived. One moment, pro vice chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, the next, gracing publicity material from Strathclyde University's...
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Julian in the crown
It's a topsy-turvy, seesaw world in modern-day politics. Southampton students demonstrating against tuition fees hit a low moment when social security minister John Denham, one of the few Labour MPs...
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Highland fling
Scottish universities panicking over a potential drop in student numbers as entrants from elsewhere in the United Kingdom are deterred by the prospect of paying an extra Pounds 1,000 in tuition fees...
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Clone 1, Knit 1, Purl 1
Being one of most notable breakthroughs of 20th-century science does not mean you avoid getting fleeced. For the the first fleece of Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, is to be woven into wool...
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Just tax the men
The debate also produced a nice line in modest proposals. Labour's Lynne Jones, in a typically thoughtful and constructively dissident contribution, noted that the arguments that graduates should pay...
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Efficient gains
And whatever scheme finally emerges from the government's deliberations on fees, just hope that the maths of the people running it are better than those of the government whips. The tuition fees...
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High-flying spy
Alumnus to be proud of No 145 represents one of the most distinguished traditions of Cambridge University: spying. Not that there is any suggestion that Richard Tomlinson, charged this week under the...
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Get a life. Women told to work apart
Women should be encouraged to work with other women and be dissuaded from setting up businesses with their spouses, according to research released this week. Elizabeth Chell, professor of management...
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Culture as Business
Culture, as the government keeps telling us, is big business. The contribution that universities and art colleges make has many strands: the provision of trained personnel for music, design and film-...
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Graduates lack 'real world' skills
Employers at the Confederation of British Industry's conference have their say on graduate requirements Expecting universities to respond to the demands of employers may be asking too much since...
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How to find the right trousers
Animation is booming but if Britain is to keep winning the Oscars there needs to be greater collaboration between film-makers and academics. Norman Taylor and Roger Noake explain. Should another...
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Arts of gold
The National Lottery has prompted an unprecedented expansion of a cultural sector that already employs almost twice as many people as the motor industry. Sara Selwood reports. The notion of culture...
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Book this space
(Photograph) - Book this space: A-level student Carl Palmer, from King Edward VII School in Louth, Lincolnshire, is using his clothing to advertise for sponsors to help him pay fees at the University...