Drinkers reach the parts others do not reach
The key part played by alcohol in the lives of first-year students has been highlighted by research showing non-drinkers have the most problems settling into university. A study at Hull and Essex...
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Union asks for room at the top
Natfhe, the lecturers' union, has called for the law to be changed to provide for larger, more representative, and more accountable university governing bodies. It has also proposed a higher...
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Lobby to lower age of consent
Red roses woven into a figure 16 became the mascot of a lobby of parliament this week as students protested that the age of consent for gay and bisexual men was still discriminatory. The lobby,...
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United colours of South Africa
One year after South Africa's first all-race elections, Nelson Mandela's government is urging universities and tecknikons - historically differentiated by race - to transform themselves in their...
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Mentor mugging
The Educational Institute of Scotland has challenged the Government's Pounds 2 million teacher mentor scheme, set for Scottish secondary schools this autumn. The EIS says there is no educational case...
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Ulster boost
Increased joint ventures by universities north and south of the border have been suggested by the London and Dublin governments. The framework document for future political development between the...
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Ill-health delays student loan report
The long-awaited report by the National Audit Office on irregularities in the Student Loans Company has been held up because auditors have been unable to quiz Ron Harrison, chief executive, due to...
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Gypsy professors roam US campuses
An "army of gypsy professors" is wandering the United States, unable to find full-time employment because higher education is too bottom-heavy, the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
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Oxbridge club mum on women
The decision by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to disassociate themselves from the United Oxford and Cambridge University Club, because of what they call its "offensive" and "discriminatory...
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NVQ vision plea for consensus
The Government call for the completion of the national vocational framework has today been answered by the publication by the Employment Department of its long-awaited strategy paper on higher level...
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`Lazy' teachers accused
German students have accused their medical professors of "teaching fraud" after an investigation at Hamburg University showed that 88 per cent do not teach the legal minimum of four hours a week. A...
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Cambridge and Scots sight new astro turf
Cambridge and Edinburgh universities could take over the Royal Observatories under proposals being considered by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. Exploratory talks between the...
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland
(Photograph) - John Brown, professor of astrophysics at Glasgow University, has been appointed Astronomer Royal for Scotland, a post which has been vacant since the resignation of Malcolm Longair in...
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Life, art and a few blue periods
Tony Tysome finds that studying for an art MA in Barcelona isn't all sun, sangria and surrealism. It sounds like an artist's dream: nine months of soaking up the sights, sounds and culture of one of...
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The mathematician and the mystic
Andrew Robinson and Dipankar Home shed some light on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore on the nature of reality. If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth,...