Under-exploited assets
As we head for the "knowledge society" of the 21st century, British universities seem only half awake, argues Sir Geoffrey Holland. The National Advisory Council on Education and Training Targets is...
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Cheque-book education
Ngaio Crequer traces the snap, crackle and pop of universities' attachment to Mammon. Universities that receive money from breakfast cereal foundations may raise eyebrows, but there is a long...
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Students to fight pay-later proposals
The Labour leadership of the National Union of Students will resist proposals outlined by the party-linked Commission on Social Justice for charging students. Jim Murphy, NUS president, said there...
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Hong Kong professions fear China degrees
Members of a China-appointed advisory committee have accused the Hong Kong government of discriminating against holders of Chinese university degrees. They want Chinese qualifications to be...
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Funders home in on top pay
Vice chancellors' salaries and those of other senior members of university staff may have to be approved by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in future following the furore over the...
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Busy business
Richard Portes, professor of economics at Birkbeck College, London, has been appointed to a chair at the London Business School. He will continue in his other roles as director of the Centre for...
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Fortune 500
The national university-industry collaboration initiative, the Teaching Company Scheme, has notched up more than 500 current projects for the first time. Its annual report for 1993/94 says the...
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Explosion charge
A lecturer is to be prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after an explosion in a chemistry laboratory in which a student's left hand was seriously injured. Clive Bird, reader in chemistry at...
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Women on top
A female mathematician is to head Bournemouth University from December. Gillian Slater, 45, is pro vice chancellor at Manchester Metropolitan University. A woman scientist will also head the...
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Too many labs ignored
John Krebs, chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council, last week called for an examination of university as well as civil service laboratories in reshaping public sector research....
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Languages slip from minor to major
Eight languages have lost the right to bid for minority subject funding because they are attracting too many students. Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Greek and Hebrew have all...
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Loan 'insult'
Douglas Trainer, president of the National Union of Students Scotland, has condemned the CBE awarded to Ronald Harrison, chief executive of the Student Loans Company, as "a sleazy insult." Mr Trainer...
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Aberdeen angst
Maxwell Irvine, principal of Aberdeen University and one of about a dozen potential candidates for chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council quoted by headhunters Spencer Stuart, has...
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Journey by junk
(Photograph) - Journey by junk: John Stevenson, project director, left, and architect Jasper Jacob help Stephen Cox, Commonwealth Institute director general, play with his toy model of the institute'...
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Scots unions split on FE package
The future of national bargaining for Scotland's further education lecturers is in the balance, with staff being balloted on a new deal allowing some conditions to be negotiated locally. The Scottish...