Exeter University's bid from Millennium Commission turned down
Exeter University's bid for Pounds 33 million from the Millennium Commission to help cover the cost a new campus in Cornwall has been turned down.
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RGO staff plan rescue
A rescue package to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory is being prepared by staff a fortnight after closure plans were announced. The package could mean the 300-year-old RGO stays at its Cambridge...
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Doctorates in House
Huw Richards assesses the members of the new education and science parliamentary committees The science and technology committee can claim to be the best-qualified group in the entire House. Of its...
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Amanda Weaver
(Photograph) - Northern pointes: 21-year-old Amanda Weaver, a third-year student at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, gave her farewell performance, 'Always the same gesture',...
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Roberts departs as Dearing delivers
Sir Gareth Roberts, the man behind the Dearing report, reflects on two tumultuous years as CVCP chairman to Huw Richards WAITING for Dearing may be this week's universal fate, but Gareth Roberts...
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Graduates dominate select few
Huw Richards assesses the members of the new education and science parliamentary committees Labour's vast 1997 parliamentary intake, with more than 200 new members among the 418 elected on May 1,...
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Nicaraguan student demonstrations
(Photograph) - Firing line: Nicaraguan students aim home-made mortars during violent demonstrations over cuts in university funding and higher fees. Trouble erupted once more despite efforts to...
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Student loans to be means-tested
Student loans would be means-tested under proposals to be unveiled next week by Sir Ron Dearing. His committee of inquiry into higher education, expected to report on Wednesday, will recommend that...
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Fees will not put poor off
Undergraduate tuition fees will not discourage poorer applicants and make the student body even more middle-class, according to a controversial report to be published in the autumn. Evidence gathered...
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Let's do a Dearing every five years, says committee
A Dearing-style review of highereducation should take place every five to ten years, Sir Ron's committee is to propose. A 30-year gap, the time betweenthe last major review by Robbins and the...
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Merged college to offer US degrees
FURTHER education students will be able to study for associate degrees from a United States university as part of a unique merger between two Birmingham colleges. East Birmingham and Handsworth...
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Radical research aims to solve industrial problems
THE FIRST four pilot Faraday Partnerships aimed at improving industry links with the research base were announced this week. Selected and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistic's Agency's findings for 1995/967 reveal that: * 77 per cent of UK full-time first degree entrants had A levels or equivalent as their highest academic qualifications *...
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Kennedy 'nobbled', FE claims
FURTHER education colleges may campaign for a share of higher education money amid claims that the university sector "nobbled" Helena Kennedy's drive for funding equity. College principals say that...
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Brunel axes undergrad physics and chemistry
BRUNEL University, founded as a centre of technological excellence, this week confirmed it would stop taking undergraduate physics and chemistry students after September. Instead the physics and...