Youth taught draft dodges
Ivan, a 26-year-old ecologist from Moscow State University, has 12 months to go before he is safe from military service. By managing to stay in higher education since the age of 18 he has avoided...
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Rebuilding aid for Somalia
THE European Union is helping reconstruct Somalian higher education, ravaged by civil war. Sigurd Illing, EU special envoy to Somalia, says that for six years there has been nothing beyond basic...
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Spectator sport
(Photograph) - Morris Holbrook, professor of marketing at New York's Columbia University, handed glasses to his audience at an academy of marketing conference held by Manchester Metropolitan...
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War expert writes Falklands history
Lawrence Freedman, head of war studies at King's College, London, has been appointed by the prime minister to write the official history of the 1981 Falklands Campaign.
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Fact file
28 per cent of students leaving Cambridge University with a first degree got first-class honours. 16 per cent of students leaving Oxford University with a first degree got first-class honours. 1 per...
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Snub for quality watchdog
CAMBRIDGE and Birmingham universities have refused to be audited by quality watchdogs. They have told the Higher Education Quality Council that they think plans to check their quality monitoring are...
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Regions keen on small firm sensitivity
Most regions met Dearing's proposals with enthusiasm. Chris Humphries, director of policy and strategy at the Training and Enterprise National Council, was keen that universities get in bed with...
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Funds-to-follow-students idea fraught but inevitable
Evelyn Ebsworth, vice chancellor and warden of Durham University, said: "The idea of more funds following students is one that has been floated by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals for...
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Buffer bodies to protect autonomy
BUFFER bodies separating the Government from higher education institutions in funding matters must be maintained for the sake of university autonomy, says the report. The committee places so much...
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FE response does not address skills issue
COLLEGE principals say that Dearing has failed to stress the crucial importance of the further education sector in strengthening post-16 education and the national economy. The Association of...
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Regions activated
UNIVERSITIES have a pivotal role to play in local and regional economies as part of a proposed compact with society over the next two decades. Dearing wants to make higher education more responsive...
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Benefit crackdown
UNEMPLOYED people studying their way back to work through Westminster University could be forced to quit their courses if benefits chiefs stop their money. Up to 15 people, some of whom have been...
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Imperial links lecturers
IMPERIAL College has set up a network of education development coordinators to improve teaching across departments. In what is thought to be the first such initiative in Britain, Imperial has...
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Squaring with the circle
Perhaps Blunkett was worn out by the effort of getting his cabinet colleagues to agree on their Dearing line. He complained to Sir Ron, only to be told: "You're lucky, mate. I have to square all this...
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Colleges squeezed to take students
AN EXTRA Pounds 50 million could be spent educating students in high-cost colleges next year because of budget cuts and funding inequities, writes Alan Thomson. A leading principal has said that...