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...
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Colleges get first bill of health
THE first further education performance indicators for England show that colleges are recruiting and planning successfully, but many students are dropping out and underachieving. Between 1993/94 and...
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Dramatic deadline
(Photograph) - Dramatic deadline: Leicester University is pulling out all the stops to raise Pounds 80,000 by the end of June in order to secure a piece of literary history for the nation. The papers...
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Council seeks global ranking
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has launched a major study of the international standing of research conducted in English universities. Researchers at Leeds University and the...
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Remedy sought for sickly R&D
Pharmaceutical firms are alarmed at the state of the science base. Kam Patal reports on how funds are falling. The pharmaceutical industry is a good barometer of changes in the science base. It...
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UK bottom of G7 spending
The latest official figures from the Office of Science and Technology show that between 1984 and 1995 the United Kingdom notched up the lowest growth in gross expenditure on research and development...
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Maize riddle sparks Chinese puzzle
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle A piece of clay pottery from a site in China may provide evidence of the earliest...
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Graduate tax dice dooms low paid to lifetime debt
Australians who take a five-year architecture degree may spend the next 55 years paying off their tuition fees, and still owe the federal government thousands of dollars, according to an analysis by...
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Calculus suffers maths backlash
GROWING enthusiasm in the United States for a return to a more traditional education in schools and colleges has taken university mathematics by storm. Reforms in the teaching of calculus to make it...
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Official dissent in the ranks
UNITEDSTATES higher education officials are fighting a losing battle with popular but controversial independent college and university ratings guides in an effort to ensure that they contain accurate...
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Technical hitch hits Irish
THE IRISH government has moved swiftly to defuse growing protests over the status of the country's 11 regional technical colleges. A decision to upgrade Waterford college to institute level with the...