Space scientists eager for Cassini mission
British scientists will be watching with bated breath this week for the launch of one of the most ambitious space missions since planetary exploration began. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, an...
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Leicester and Warwick seek medical status
The universities of Leicester and Warwick are preparing a bid for a joint undergraduate medical school. The new school would be able to accept an initial intake of 300 - 175 based at Leicester and...
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Institutions sign up for greening agenda
Twenty-five higher education institutions have signed up to a new two-year programme aimed at greening Britain's universities and colleges. The HE21 project, run by the environmental charity Forum...
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Scots display record performances
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's annual report has revealed that in the last ten years, student numbers have risen by more than 60 per cent, while public funding has fallen by 16 per...
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Campaign for disabled wins Lottery cash
The National Lottery Charities Board has given Pounds 379,513 to Skill, the national bureau for students with disabilities to help it develop services. Skill is the main voluntary organisation in the...
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Scotland receives Pounds 27.5m advance
THE Scottish Office has released an advance payment of Pounds .5 million to higher education institutions in a bid to ease the ongoing student grants fiasco. And the National Union of Students...
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Crisis warning on basic skills
A startling warning that teenagers' ability in basic reading, writing and mathematics are at a crisis level in Northern Ireland has been heard at a conference on under-achievement. Belfast Institute...
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Uplifting choice
(Photograph) - Liverpool John Moores University's new engineering and science centre has been nominated for a Royal Institute of British Architecture award. The RIBA jury says the building is an '...
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Cresson calls for entry deal
STUDENT mobility across Europe is hampered by the lack of agreement on entry requirements and fee-charging in higher education, Edith Cresson, European commissioner for education, training and youth...
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Lib-Dems rethink policies
LIBERAL Democrats are to recast their post-compulsory education policy, with strong indications that the model provided by Helena Kennedy QC's report on further education will be more influential...
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Tories ready for grants fray
CONSERVATIVES are set to attack the government for its planned abolition of student maintenance grants when legislation on higher education funding is introduced in the Commons next session. The move...
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Conservative Students fringe meeting
* At a fringe meeting of Conservative Students, national chairman Gavin Williamson, launched a campaign to recruit members. Mr Williamson said the NUS had mishandled the tuition fees issue, and acted...
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Personal savings bank for learning
PLANS for all students to pay for education through individual lifelong learning accounts are under government scrutiny. Advisers working closely with the Department for Education and Employment and...
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Reds in the flower bed
Does the boyish exterior of shadow education and employment spokesman Stephen Dorrell conceal an enthusiasm for the ideas of the late Chairman Mao? Speaking on Conservative education policy in...
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Nocturnal activities
So it is goodbye to the Conservative Graduates Association. Not, as some might maliciously suggest, because there are none left, but because the party reorganisation plans unveiled this week suggest...