Latest FEFC figures on college deficits
The latest FEFC figures show that the number of colleges with an operating deficit had increased to 5 compared with 204 in 1994 and 263 in 1995. Eighty colleges had accumulated deficits at July 1996...
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Pay for promises Labour is told
HIGHER education's biggest trade union Unison has questioned the Government's ability to deliver more and better further education and training. Rodney Bickerstaffe, general secretary of Unison,...
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Virtual voyage
The Natural History Museum's virtual gallery of James Cook's voyage on the Endeavour opens on the Internet next Thursday until August 31. Created by 11 European partners, the gallery allows visitors...
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Prizes for pages
Academic web sites will compete for two Pounds 1,000 prizes in the 1998 UCISA Web Awards presented by the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (www.ucisa.ac.uk). For the...
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Information about information
The University of Teesside's Community Informatics Research and Applications unit is launching a journal, Information, Communication and Society, to be published quarterly by Routledge. It will be...
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Exclusive offer
The Community of European Management Schools, which counts the London School of Economics among its 13 participating schools, has established an Internet job mart enabling graduates to shop for...
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Nine-and-a-half lives
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council is offering a screensaver based on the paradox of Schrodinger's cat, which according to quantum physics can be simultaneously dead and alive....
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Union denounces review tactics
David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, has called on Glasgow University to launch an immediate inquiry into its research assessment exercise strategy....
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Cold water poured on Bath merger
Doubts were raised this week over the proposed merger between Bath University and the University of the West of England in Bristol. Senior officials have stressed that proposals for a full...
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Soton plans La Sainte phoenix
Southampton University will launch a new adult and continuing education campus next month from the ashes of the doomed La Sainte Union College of Higher Education. The college will be "a model for...
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Fairer funds debut
KEY decisions on a fairer system for funding teaching in English higher education are revealed to institutions this week. The new method developed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Sandwich train hits buffers
Glasgow Caledonian University has confirmed that overseas trips and the use of university transport are being investigated as part of an inquiry into alleged misuse of public funds by senior staff....
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Three points to a perfect image
Academic collaborations are proving fruitful for the software designer Kai Krause, whose graphics tools have inspired a generation of digital artists and designers. His company Metatools, now merged...
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Press on the cutting edge
The information explosion is creating shell-shocked newsrooms. Newsrooms which 15 years ago dealt with single-medium (paper), limited resources (clips from their own publication and some books),...
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It's going to be Massive
The virtual student, remote but an integrated part of a learning community, is the goal of research in Nottingham and Sweden. Mike Holderness reports. The scene: the office of the Head of the...