Hallucinate: you know it's good for you
Out-of-body experiences, where subjects feel they are seeing their bodies from the outside, merit research because of the insight they could give into perception in general, according to the author...
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FE teachers to get training
Ministers have chosen further education as the testing ground for new competency-based teaching qualifications. The Department of Employment and the Department for Education are paving the way for...
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Cornwall pushes to host high-tech university
Cornwall could be the site of a unique high-tech "network" university, according to Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice chancellor of Exeter University. A task force of educationists, local authority...
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Experts cannot tell if a child lies
A "classic" study of children's memories has shown they can be manipulated more than is currently believed, a conference at Leicester University heard last week. The findings form some of the first...
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GNVQs are `already popular'
General National Vocational Qualifications were vigorously defended as "along the right lines" and "already extremely popular" by Tim Boswell, minister for further and higher education, at a...
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Pension claims threaten budgets
Higher and further education colleges could face financial collapse if academic and non-academic part-time staff refused access to pensions schemes ask for their membership to be backdated....
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Midland colleges admit rights mistake
Fifteen further education colleges in the West Midlands have admitted breaking the law over part-time lecturers' rights and have backed off from a costly legal battle. The University of Central...
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Ratings `siphon off' funds
University heads have criticised the assessment scale proposed for the next research selectivity exercise fearing that it will siphon off money from top-rated departments. Delegates at a meeting of...
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Portillo dashes training cash hope
Any hope of a November Budget handout for industry-led training was dashed this week by Michael Portillo, Secretary of State for Employment. Mr Portillo was responding to criticism from Sir Clifford...
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Billionaire backer for India study
Cambridge University has received Pounds 1 million from an Indian billionaire businessman to establish the first research institute in Europe dedicated to the study of India's religio-cultural and...
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Catholic job case settled
The University of Ulster has paid Pounds 7,500 compensation in a religious discrimination case. The case, involving Gerald Doherty, a part-time adult education lecturer, had been due to run all week...
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Jobs drying up for graduates
Employment experts said this week that job prospects for next year's graduates are bleak. The Institute for Employment Studies says the graduate market remains characterised by "surpluses rather than...
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Pick of the crop
Optimist of the week is Jon Rogers, a Hull graduate in electronic engineering who has landed the job of assistant to Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist. He was surprised to win the job but...
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Guildford two
Can any current -- as opposed to emeritus -- British academic claim a longer period of continuous service than that inspired by the University of Surrey? At the same time as saying goodbye to Anthony...
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Tunnel trouble
Civil engineering departments rushed for this month's Tunnels and Tunnelling magazine, published the day after the Heathrow tunnel collapse. Sadly, its printing deadlines meant that the disaster was...