Campus fit for Queen's Belfast
Queen's University Belfast is pressing ahead with a new campus in Armagh, Northern Ireland's third city and ecclesiastical centre. The campus is likely to open in the autumn. The announcement steals...
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Loans firm logs Pounds 1.5m IT bill
The Student Loans Company spent Pounds 1.5 million in the academic year 1993/94 on "computer development costs" - an increase of nearly Pounds 1 million on the previous year's spending. Douglas...
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Centre pioneers drug addiction research
Treating and preventing drug and alcohol misuse is the aim of a research centre which opened this week at Swansea University. Based in the department of psychology, the Centre of Substance Abuse...
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Pressure for Nottingham suicide inquiry continues
Nottingham University is under renewed pressure to hold an independent inquiry into the suicide of politics professor David Regan. The university's council and senate this month rejected the idea...
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Scotland advances its 'gold standard'
Scotland's higher education principals, in their first statement on Government plans to reform school exams, have warned that the proposed two-year Advanced Higher must not be confused with A levels...
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Lib-Dems push voucher funding
Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman who put his job on the line when he announced a policy U-turn last year, is preparing another bold move with proposals to overhaul funding and...
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Ballot answer
Glasgow University is seeking Privy Council approval for a new single transferable vote system to elect its chancellor, to replace the first past the post method. Chancellor, Sir Alec Cairncross, who...
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Looking east
Sheffield University is opening an East Asia research centre to help strengthen its links with the region. The centre will provide fellowships and graduate bursaries for research in areas such as...
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Bradford deal
Bradford University's Management Centre has won a contract to provide an MBA course in Israel. It will link up with the Israel Management Centre in Tel-Aviv to provide a two-year part-time course for...
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Feeling twitchy
Last week's request for possible titles for the academic soap opera suggested by the Association for Colleges brought a rapid response from Alan Broad of Oxford, who nominated Drop the Dead Don. For...
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Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies' First seminar
(Photograph) - Lingua judaica . . . Dov-Ber Kerler (left) leads discussion of the semiotics of the Mayse Bukh in Old Yiddish Literature at the first seminar held by the new Oxford Institute for...
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Firms oppose levy
About three-quarters of employers surveyed by the Confederation of British Industry oppose a compulsory training levy. The CBI said the firms object for various reasons: the levy would be too...
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Booster jab
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has signed an agreement with the Department of Health to help boost co-operation between the two in areas of joint interest in the medical...
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Kennedy mission
Helena Kennedy QC, chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, is to chair a new Further Education Funding Council committee looking at ways of widening recruitment to further education and training....
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Essex economies
Essex University departments will be set targets for expenditure cuts or increased income to avert losses projected for the university in the late 1990s. A gap of about Pounds 1 million per year will...