Cambridge defends promotion policy
Phil Baty reports on the final rounds of a lecturer's long legal fight to open up Cambridge's promotions system Cambridge University maintains that there is not enough money to promote everyone. A...
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Colleges in line for big slice of Pounds 875m
COLLEGES should receive a major chunk of an Pounds 875 million windfall from the Government's New Deal for the unemployed, according to education secretary DavidBlunkett. Mr Blunkett has written to...
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Funding of 16-19 education
The AOC has written to the Department for Education and Employment urging a rethink on government policy on the funding of 16-19 education. The association is concerned that by 2000 colleges will...
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Students fail to buy half necessary course texts
Students are buying just half the number of books they should be, and money must be found to redress the shortfall, the Publishers Association warned this week. Only 42 per cent of students buy all...
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House gas safety plea after off-campus death
A JUDGE urged all universities to ensure registered student accommodation had gas-safety certificates after fining two men who created "a veritable deathtrap" for students. Judge Denis Orde said that...
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School-leavers ignorant of university living costs
A survey by NatWest Bank has found 61 per cent of school-leavers believe they will manage three years at university without going into debt. The study of 1,200 A-level pupils found 23 per cent asked...
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Most find degree of success in job market
Almost 70 per cent of UK students find employment when they leave higher education, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show. First Destinations of Students Leaving Higher Education...
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Brand to appeal against sacking
Solicitors acting for the sacked Edinburgh University lecturer Christopher Brand say they will next week lodge an appeal against the university's decision. The self-declared "scientific racist" lost...
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John Moores gets into the swing
Academics at Liverpool John Moores University's centre for sport and exercise sciences have developed a computerised system to analyse golf swings. Scientists are compiling a database of the swings...
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Spin-offs help Strathclyde do the business
Snake venom and a monitoring aerial have helped Strathclyde University scoop two out of seven business awards from the Glasgow Development Agency. The Business Start-Up of the Year Awards net each...
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Swansea initiatives get Pounds 1.3m from ESF
The University of Wales, Swansea, has been awarded nearly Pounds 1.3 million by the European Social Fund to run four information technology-based projects. The money will finance projects aimed at...
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Warning over new plans for sports academy
A leading sports scientist has warned that university sport could suffer because of the Government's controversial plans for the new British Academy of Sport. Tom O'Reilly, professor of sports...
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GCSE exam passes hit a record high
The pass rate for GCSE exams is at a record high. The results, announced this week, show a 0.4 per cent increase in grades A to C, the grades said to be equivalent to a pass in the old O level. There...
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Old workers mentally outclass aged dons
Despite a lifetime of stimulation, top dons' brains deteriorate with age just as quickly as those of anyone else, according to new research. Research by psychologists from the Australian National...
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Diving provider left to sink or swim
THE Department for Education and Employment appears to have washed its hands of a funding row that could leave a further education college fighting a costly court battle, writes Alan Thomson. The...