Review may leave loans bill dead in the water
The Government's announcement that Sir Ron Dearing is to undertake a thorough review of higher education has rendered the unpopular student loans Bill a "dead duck", according to members of the House...
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Too far, too much, too soon?
A central issue for the new inquiry into higher education is "whether expansion has gone too far", Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, said this week. Growth in higher...
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What a drag net
The old joke about there being only five education news stories (that many?), with their apparent diversity merely variations upon common themes came to several minds last week as the "Essays on the...
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Christians and lions
The American magazine, Sports Illustrated, reports that a college basketball team has recently had two games abandoned - the first because one of its players brandished a chair and threatened a...
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Too many Forman
Bipartisanship may rule, but the Commons debate on Education Secretary Gillian Shephard's inquiry still threw up one alarming idea as former higher education minister Nigel Forman suggested that the...
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Great 1-day Scott
So how long would be a sensible period for considering the Scott report and its implications. Three hours, as offered to HM Opposition? Eight days, as used by HM Government? We suspect the Hansard...
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Dental pain gain
Greenfield also had a handy hint, based on United States biorhythm research, on dealing with dental pain: go for a lunchtime appointment. This is the point at which people subjected to cold and...
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Sleep talking
Good news for the less thrilling lecturers in academic life from Oxford's Susan Greenfield, speaking on consciousness at the Royal Society of Arts. Answering a questioner who admitted to not having...
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Learning launch
Hundreds of delegates from across Britain gathered in Edinburgh yesterday for the UK launch of the European Year of Lifelong Learning attended by European commissioner Edith Cresson. The United...
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Promo prizes
The winner of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's second science communicator award will receive a Pounds 3,000 prize. This year there is a new category for postgraduates...
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How to net a job
An Internet employment exchange is due to go on line at Loughborough University student union this week enabling students to seek out in-house vacation jobs. Academic departments "post" their job...
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FE funding overhaul ahead
Radical changes in the way higher education is funded in further education colleges are to be considered by funding council chiefs. Proposals contained in a report published this week call for...
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Colleges hit by Pounds 1.4m bill
Three colleges in the Northeast have been left with a bill of more than Pounds 1.4 million after losing a High Court battle with Cleveland County Council. The colleges are not the first to dispute...
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Rise and shine en Provence
A top American business school is courting British and European students by setting up a base in the Provence region of France. Northwestern University's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management...
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Foreign lessons for Ron
Sir Ron Dearing will look abroad to answer key questions facing the Robbins-style higher education inquiry launched this week. Sir Ron, who is to head the inquiry, said that other countries were...