HM loan arranger
The Government's plans to privatise the student loans scheme were confirmed in the Queen's Speech this week. Her Majesty said legislation would be introduced to enable students to choose between...
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Bloodshed at Nigerian university
The Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria's largest higher education establishment, has been closed following the murder of Bamidele Bandipo, director of the university's teaching hospital. Angry...
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Teaching and research 'in deficit'
University finances will become much tighter over the next three years, with increased external income needed to offset a growing deficit on teaching and research. This is the message of the Higher...
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First step to single point score system
A single point score system for all qualifications used to enter higher education may be created to put vocational study on an equal footing with A levels, it emerged this week. The Universities and...
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Mouse patent contested
The patenting of a mouse genetically engineered to develop cancer will be contested in the European Patent Office next week by 17 groups including a United Kingdom coalition of animal welfare...
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The skills backlash
The millionth NVQ was awarded on Wednesday. It was supposed to be a milestone marking the week when, as the PR people put it, NVQs "came of age". But this week will be remembered very differently -...
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Fire in the provinces
Toulouse, Metz, Aix-en-Provence, Marne-la-Vallee - this week strikes have been, to use Le Figaro's word, cascading through the French universities. So far agitation has been mainly in the provinces...
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Canadian bounty
(Photograph) - Canadian bounty: Michael G. Gibbons, dean of the graduate school and director of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, has been named as the new secretary...
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Head start
(Photograph) - Head start: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, honed over the last decade so that it can produce a "movie" of the body's soft tissues, may be the key to understanding migraine, Laurie Hall,...
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College standards satisfy inspector
Despite an 11 per cent efficiency gain and 5 per cent growth over the last year, standards of teaching in further education colleges have been judged satisfactory by their chief inspector whose...
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Greenwich bids for Naval site
The University of Greenwich launched its bid this week for the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, saying that its cost savings on other sites would pay for work on the college. The university would...
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Poetry in motion
Lucy Hodges meets Paul Muldoon, the Heaney acolyte who wants to rearrange furniture in our heads. Paul Muldoon looked a bit the worse for wear. He was on a poetry-reading tour of the United Kingdom,...
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Creature discomforts
Theologian Andrew Linzey believes that Christians have got it terribly wrong about animals for the past 2,000 years. Aisling Irwin hears his arguments. God might have saved his creatures a lot of...
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Giant eyes on the final frontier
Britain's part in funding the huge telescopes capable of viewing the surfaces of stars boosts our scientific prestige, argues John Meaburn The Hubble Space Telescope is arguably the most ambitious...
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Maritime great who sank without trace
Anton Gill sketches the life of William Dampier, an explorer to rank with Raleigh and Drake but also a privateer and pirate who died in obscurity. William Dampier figures in a footnote of a book...