Distance is Wye's objective
Few students of Wye College will ever set foot in the small Kent village of that name in future. The reason is that the agricultural college of the University of London plans to double student...
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Dundee's pastoral care
The University of Abertay Dundee is validating a certificate of pastoral ministry aimed at lay people working for the church in the Roman Catholic dioceses of Dunkeld, Galloway and Motherwell....
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The training scheme jobless
Nearly three-quarters of unemployed adults on the Government's Training For Work programme were still out of work three months after completing the course, according to Training and Enterprise...
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Aroused Rowse goes into historical action
A. L. Rowse is 91, but like his fellow nonagenerian Lord Denning, he is never afraid of saying something controversial. Next week, he brings out Historians I Have Known where he attacks (and...
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Building collapse
Southampton Institute has cancelled a part-time construction degree, leaving 32 students with no prospect of completing their course and no legal redress. The institute says in its prospectus that it...
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Rockpooling
(Photograph) - Rockpooling: James Cuttingham, one of 35 academics from nine universities in Georgia, United States, visiting Northumbria University last week on a staff-student exchange arranged by...
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Law schools feel squeeze
University law school heads have condemned proposals for tight restrictions on postgraduate courses for trainee solicitors. A call from Martin Mears, the new president of the Law Society, for a cut...
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58-point checklist of good practice
It had to happen. Borchester, the nearest thing the neverending radio soap The Archers has to the sinful city, now has a university. And it is just the kind of university that fits the dramatic...
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Merger plan for lecturers and teachers to be halted
Moves that could lead to a merger between the Association of University Teachers and the University Lecturers' Association of the Educational Institute of Scotland are set to be stifled today by the...
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Singing coach
Watching the car parks has always been a handy way of tracking who's briefing who. So some interest should be attached to the sighting last week of a coach, billed as being on loan to outsize tenor...
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Change partners
There's nothing like the experiences of post-communist Europe to put British worries into perspective. Asked how the Economic and Social Research Council's new Whitehall Programme will fare should...
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Tied in
Education union leaders displayed a remarkable consensus at a higher education fringe meeting at this week's Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow. Panellists David Triesman of the Association of...
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DIY dinner
The Calvinist work ethic has nothing on the one at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Professor Eddy Van Avermaet, welcoming delegates to a European adult education conference, praised...
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Monkey see
More fodder for the debate on falling academic standards: delegates at a meeting on the art and science of vision last week heard of an experiment on visual perception, published by Logothetis et Al...
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Tim runs out
At last the truth can be told of the final hours in office of the former higher education minister Tim Boswell. As the storm clouds cleared in the wake of John Major's leadership campaign victory, Mr...