Aussie pay rise is 'long overdue'
The Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee has warned the nation's new Conservative government that a burning issue facing the higher education sector is the claim by 80,000 university staff for a...
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Middle America in fees fear
Mounting unease over why middle-class Americans face increased college fees for their children, and what they are getting for their money, could offer fertile ground for political debate in the...
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When the face fits
(Photograph) - When the face fits: Glasgow School of Art student Dagfin Aksness (left) inspects a pupil's work during an architecture and design masterclass, part of the Glasgow Festival of Visual...
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SHEFC divides dwindling cake
Scotland's 21 higher education institutions are facing a cash cut of 0.2 per cent in their grant from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. But funds for the next academic year have fallen...
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Geologists pave way for shoppers
Tomorrow, on the floor of Central Milton Keynes shopping mall, geologist Jill Eyers will be crawling around with a magnifying glass, trying to interest passers-by in its geological history. The floor...
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Brain probe at snail's pace
Researchers at Sussex University investigating how nerve cells acquire information and then organise themselves to generate behaviour have won a Pounds 4.8 million award from the Biotechnology and...
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Danger ahead for new robot
An engineer in the British Telecom Laboratory at Martlesham Heath is today taking part in the first public demonstration of a "telepresence" link-up with a robot head built by Strathclyde University...
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Mancunians bid to rebuild The Baby
Volunteers and pioneers in Manchester this week began the painstaking task of rebuilding the world's first stored-program computer in time for its 50th anniversary in June 1998. The Mark 1 prototype...
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Cherie picking
Following the Daily Express's characteristically discreet, low-key appeal for dirt on the early life of Cherie Booth QC, aka the other half of the leader of Her Majesty's Very Loyal Opposition, we...
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Taken to task
Not a moment too soon for the new task force set up by Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education. Its remit, according to the Scottish Office press release, is "to examine...
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On your honour
This week's prize for maintaining the value of honorary awards by keeping them scarce goes to the University of Edinburgh, which announced last week that it will be awarding 24 honorary degrees in...
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Teacher training set for rethink
Government targets for increasing the supply of teachers will be missed unless new measures to boost student interest in the profession are introduced, the Teacher Training Agency has warned. A multi...
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Bridge too far
Having long argued a lucidly compelling case that the underlying problems of the British economy are structural, this week it looked as though The Guardian's economics pages had a real restructuring...
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Hard-bitten
Not quite the learning bank, but a nightclub and a restaurant in Leicester have caught on to the idea of investing against educational contingencies. The Mosquito Coast nightclub and the Que Pasa...
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Great's expectations
The impending appointment of Sir Ron Dearing's neo-Royal Commission has sent a surge of excitement through higher education's would-be great and good. But some are keeping it in proportion: "I can...