Belfast call to go alone
NORTHERN Ireland needs its own strategic development plan for higher education backed up by separate funding, Sir Ron Dearing was told this week. Sir Ron was chairing a one-day conference in Belfast...
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Libraries prepare for digital century
Public libraries should prepare to help people get to grips with the digital revolution, the Government declared this week. In its review of public library policy for England, the Department of...
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Strong words expected on full-time fees
A GRADUATE tax system and some version of Australia's Higher Education Contribution Scheme are options that the Dearing committee is exploring to raise higher education funding, according to a...
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Graduate bulge strains law
THE LAW SOCIETY has echoed Government concerns over an oversupply of graduates. The society says it is worried that undergraduate courses have "expanded enormously in recent years without sufficient...
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Queen's University of Belfast's outreach centre in Armagh
(Photograph) - Reaching out: Gary Sloan, programme director, stands outside Queen's University of Belfast's outreach centre in Armagh, which was formally opened by Sir Ron Dearing this week. The...
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Sutherland to head teacher training probe
SIR Stewart Sutherland, principal and vice chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, is to head a study of teacher training to advise the Dearing committee on the contribution made by higher...
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Cash crisis hits books
STUDENTS face restricted access to the University of London library because of a subscription cash crisis. Subscriptions from constituent colleges and institutes cannot sustain current, let alone...
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Scots raise standard
Conspiracy theorists are beginning to worry that the Scots may have forced Sir Ron Dearing's hand over concerns about standards in higher education. The decision by the Scottish Higher Education...
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Unwanted 'N'
One might imagine that the Bishop of Ripon had long since outgrown the need to worry about what happens in schools and colleges. The Rt Rev David Young, after all, took a first in maths at Oxford...
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The science of the possible
George Poste calls on the Dearing inquiry to prioritise research funding Pharmaceuticals is the United Kingdom's most successful industry with a long tradition of pioneering accomplishment in life...
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Seal of approval
With or without the N, qualifications agency chief executive Nick Tate is one of the few people in British public life who can bask in approval from all political parties. Since Christmas, all the...
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Lost in the cabinet
"Scientists Beware" thundered a Labour press release faxed to The THES by shadow science spokesman Adam Ingram. Apparently, during last week's Commons debate on prior options, the Government's...
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Pay upset possible
If mad cows are not fatal to the Government, just what else might work instead? An academic pay review body may just be the answer to Tony Blair's dreams as well as those of the Association of...
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Guppy logic
One former student unlikely to have been deterred by any possible Oxford top-up fee is alumnus to be proud of no 90, the distinctly nobbish insurance fraudster Darius Guppy. Mr Guppy's high moral...
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Dons tell Oxford to go private
THE MASTER of an Oxford college has accused his university of burying its head in the sand over the future of higher education. Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, sparked controversy this...