FE crisis heads queue
UNION and employer delegations from further education are poised to beseige the incoming education secretary with urgent demands for more money to avoid massive job cuts. John Brennan, the...
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How Jericho tumbled
The Geological Society conference on volcanoes, earthquakes and archaeology THE RISE and fall of many ancient societies may have been due to earthquakes, according to a Stanford University researcher...
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German volcano could erupt
A "FIRE-SPITTING" volcano in the heart of Germany may force scientists to revise the European geological map, it is claimed. Until now geologists thought the most recent volcanic activity in Germany...
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Electron 100
(Photograph) - Bright sparks: experience the wonders of science first hand at Electron 100, which celebrates the centenary of the discovery of the electron by J. J. Thompson. The exhibition runs at...
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FE crisis heads queue
The Government has consistently exaggerated the cost of further education's 16 to 19 provision while under-estimating school costs so it can sell plans for funding convergence, say college heads. The...
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Celluloid socialists
At the very last - a political party that does not think education, education and education means nursery, primary and secondary. The one and only election broadcast by Arthur Scargill's Socialist...
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Sciences shrink again
The future of chemistry and physics is under threat at a number of universities. Brunel may become the first United Kingdom university to stop all undergraduate physics and chemistry teaching...
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Luton staff want financial context of cuts
STAFF in talks with managers over job losses want more information about the University of Luton's finances. Weekly meetings will take place between the lecturers' union Natfhe and university...
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UNL consortium's teaching won't do
THE STANDARD of teacher training is unsatisfactory among a consortium of seven schools whose courses are validated by the University of North London, say inspectors. Students are not prepared...
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Hilda to become more attractive to women
OXFORD UNIVERSITY's St Hilda's is to set up a working group to help make itself more attractive to women academics after it failed by one vote last week to overturn its ban on male fellows. It must...
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Rhodes Trust kickstarts American studies
WORK will begin next year on the Pounds 13.5 million Institute for American Studies in Oxford, thanks to the Rhodes Trust. The charitable organisation which provides scholarships for USand...
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Hybrid Islamic college planned for 2000
THE OXFORD Centre for Islamic Studies plans to build a new college in western and Islamic styles to house about 48 fellows, scholarship students and visiting academics, by the year 2000. Sited next...
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Academy of Medicine recommendation
AN ACADEMY of Medicine to speak for the whole of the medical community has been okayed by a working group set up a year ago to consider the issue. The group, chaired by Sir Michael Atiyah, former...
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Inverness debates confidence in management
Inverness COLLEGE academics yesterday marked election day by debating confidence in the college board and senior management. Staff leaders had sought management support for a moratorium on proposed...
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British Library readers ponder annual charge
BRITISH LIBRARY readers are being ask to consider paying annual charges of up to Pounds 700. The library issued some 2,500 questionnaires to readers this week to see how much they would be willing to...