Health tie extended
The strategic alliance between St George's Hospital Medical School and Kingston University is being extended to cover teaching, research and clinical service. The governing bodies of both...
Search
-
-
Awards for dreamers
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is offering nearly £500,000 to 12 top thinkers - all they have to do is dream, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Next week Nesta will launch a new...
-
Adults' interest in lifelong learning continues to wane
Participation in adult learning suffered a steep decline over the past 12 months, a survey will reveal this weekend. On the eve of Adult Learners' Week, the poll of 5,000 adults suggests that...
-
Clarke lays into useless history
Education secretary Charles Clarke has again attacked learning for learning's sake by saying that the public purse should not fund "ornamental" subjects such as medieval history. Mr Clarke told a...
-
Reality checks for Tory policy
The Conservative Party will fine-tune its revamped higher education policy by consulting key people in the sector, shadow education spokesman Damian Green said this week. Mr Green said that the party...
-
Summer cash crisis predicted
Universities will face a crisis over pay and funding this summer that will be more severe than the one now hitting schools, university employers warned this week. "There will either be large-scale...
-
Devil's in our detail
To survive in the new academy, the humanities must refocus on the 'big issues', argues Eric Gould Despite some nasty scrapes, "humanity" in the singular has managed to survive. But in the plural?...
-
Why I believe history textbooks should tell the truth about Europe's violent past
Growing up in Turkey, I thought that table manners were "western" and that we learnt how to use the knife and fork from the more "civilised" Europeans. Didn't Norbert Elias in The History of Manners...
-
Healthy students shun caff delights
The campus cafeteria's days could be numbered, according to a survey out this week. It reveals that health-conscious students now require continental-style bars and coffee shops, as popularised by...
-
League tables 2003: Who hits lofty heights?
Radical changes to this year's league tables give some surprising results, says John O'Leary Ten years after the publication of the first British university league tables, the rankings still have...
-
Figures hid true graduate jobs picture
Official figures exaggerate the employment prospects of graduates in some of higher education's most popular subjects by failing to distinguish between different types of job, according to university...
-
Physicist finds that the chef's hat fits
Alison Cole, 29, graduated in physics from Imperial College London before becoming a chef. She has worked at some of the country's top venues and is now a full-time mother, writes Alison Goddard. She...
-
In the news: Leslie Wagner
Leslie Wagner has been telling headhunters for a while that he is not interested in another vice-chancellorship when he retires from Leeds Metropolitan University in August. But when he was asked to...
-
Appointments
* John Barrow , professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Cambridge and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, has been appointed Gresham professor of astronomy. He will...
-
Harvard funding model 'is not for UK'
Academics, medics, MPs and London's mayor attack the white paper's vision Endowments can never free the government from funding higher education, Cambridge University says in its response to the...