Gabon
Hundreds of students clashed with armed police on the streets of Libreville, capital of Gabon, over the failure to build more student hostels and an extra cafeteria. Some students were wounded trying...
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North hit as applications fall
Universities and colleges are bracing themselves for a fall in the number of applications for full-time higher education places in 1999. The number of applications received by the Universities and...
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Scots Tories consider paying fees
The Conservative Party north of the border is investigating a scheme that would effectively abolish tuition fees for Scottish students, writes Olga Wojtas. Party activists are researching the costs...
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Dyslexics may suffer bias
Old universities must better identify and support students with dyslexia, according to a report by the national working party on dyslexia in higher education commissioned by HEFCE. The controversial...
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UCL merger to create European study centre
Proposals are being considered by University College London for a centre that would incorporate the newly merged School of Slavonic and East European Studies and existing departments within UCL....
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Colleges should beware recruitment prejudice
It would be "a tragedy" if colleges started to avoid recruiting difficult student groups in order to improve their standards indicators, Chris Hughes (below), chief executive of the Further Education...
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RAE nears agreement on medical research
The debate on how best to assess clinical medical research in the 2001 research assessment exercise was partly resolved this week with an agreement for sub-panels. A meeting, including the Higher...
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MPs request finance details for education
MPs have criticised the government for keeping colleges and universities in the dark over financial planning. Members of the Commons' education sub-committee said that the comprehensive spending...
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Call to cut back degrees
A halt should be called to university expansion amid evidence that qualification inflation is devaluing degrees, according to Rethinking Higher Education, published today. Thomas Lange's report, for...
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SHEFC
SHEFC has decided in principle to take part in the Arts and Humanities Research Board next academic year and will discuss this further next month. There has been concern among academics that the...
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Rebuilding a legend
(Photograph) - Exeter College student Philippe Giacalone, 18, rebuilds a Rolls Royce Merlin engine - used in the Spitfire fighter plane - for Arrow Aviation Services while on work experience for his...
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Sturdy tutors in the school of hard knocks
Why are some children resilient in adversity? Julia Hinde discovers that parents do matter. Why does one child in a poverty-stricken single-parent family thrive, while another terrorises the...
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Wirral governors quit to avoid sackings
Key governors at troubled Wirral Metropolitan College have stepped down in an attempt to stave off the threatened mass sacking of the board by the secretary of state. The college submitted an...
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Digital plan stalls at British Library
The British Library has failed to reach agreement with a private-sector consortium for the development of digital access to its collection. The consortium, proposed in 1997 as a private finance...
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New name augurs change in Scotland
Scotland's national agency for community education is being given a change of name and remit in a bid to give it a stronger focus. From April, the Scottish Community Education Council will become...