Times they are a-changin'
The Times, they are a changing - literally. After more than two decades of resistance, a Bill in the House of Lords this month may signal time out for a great British institution. As astronomers...
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Raoul Franklin to retire
City University's vice chancellor Raoul Franklin has announced that he is to retire at the end of August next year. Professor Franklin will have been in the post for 20 years.
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In the frame
(Photograph) - Gabby Leigh, a final-year student at the University of Wolverhampton, has made a giant steel camera as part of her final year Exhibition.
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Burning up
Road rage has hit the Higher Education Quality Council. Staff at the HEQC's London and Birmingham offices were already furious to hear they would be expected to commute to Cheltenham, where the...
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'Unfair' funding attacked
NEW rules on distributing money are unfair and impracticable, claim universities expecting to lose cash from the changes. At least ten vice chancellors are discussing opposition to decisions on a new...
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Dearing split on money
Sir Ron Dearing's committee of inquiry is split on two big issues -plans to charge students a quarter of the cost of their higher education and the funding of research. One option is to adopt a...
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Cambridge Gates open
CAMBRIDGE University pro-vice chancellor Roger Needham will head Microsoft's new Pounds 50 million research centre in Cambridge, to cement a "special relationship" between the university and the...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: *The total number of academic staff was 126,582, an increase of 10 per cent on the previous year *86 per cent of staff in...
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Scottish further education warms to PFI
SCOTLAND'S further education sector has consolidated its Private Finance Initiative success with the launch of a new Pounds 15 million campus for West Lothian College. This is only the second further...
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Wales restructures to safeguard federation
THE UNIVERSITY of Wales council has approved a reorganisation of academic structures, including the devolution of several functions to the eight member institutions. It is hoped the change will end a...
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Lifelong learning submissions called for
TESSA Blackstone, education and employment minister, called this week for submissions to a government white paper on lifelong learning that is pencilled in for late October. In May, the Government...
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Exeter rethinks planned job losses
PLANS to axe more than 100 jobs at Exeter University have been referred back by the university's senate to its academic policy committee, which drew up the restructuring proposals. Changes to the...
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Charity fraud investigations on the increase
THE ANNUAL income of registered charities in England and Wales is estimated by the Charities Commission to be Pounds 18 billion. The commission's report for 1996 says that more than 40 per cent of...
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'Mad sheep' disease gets research funding
A Pounds 3.8 MILLION grant for research into scrapie, the sheep equivalent of "mad cow disease", has been announced. The funding, from the Medical Research Council and the Biotechnology and...
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Verdict on new food standards agency due
FINAL comments on the James report, which recommends the establishment of an independent Food Standards Agency, are due this week. The initial report, published last month by Professor Philip James...