Committee starts work on extra medic places
The group responsible for allocating 1,000 additional medical school places met for the first time this week to consider criteria for awarding the new places. The joint Department of Health/Higher...
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Lawyers add up
(Photograph) - Gregor Rolfe (left), Alison Bissett, David Boyd and Mala Sawhney are among the first entrants to two law courses launched by Dundee University for "millennium careers". Dundee, which...
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Natfhe rattles sabres
Strikes against proposals to increase further education teaching hours could hit colleges early next year and undermine the government's lifelong learning plans, the country's biggest lecturing union...
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College drop-outs blame institutions
"The course was totally different to the explanation in the prospectus" - former business studies student. As the debate over student drop-out rates intensifies in the run-up to the publication of...
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Natfhe angered over Hefce diploma plan
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds should be encouraged to do degrees as well as diplomas according to university and college lecturers' union Natfhe in its response to proposals made by the...
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Government revises post-16 education cost report
Objections by training and enterprise councils have forced the government to revise a report showing that further education colleges are the cheapest means of delivering post-16 education. The TEC...
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Fund plan may split colleges
Changes in higher education funding could discourage collaboration between universities and colleges to the detriment of widening participation, vice-chancellors told MPs this week, Alan Thomson...
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Women's lib
(Photograph) - Miriam Alman, a member of the managing committee of the Sybil Campbell Library, which reopened at Great James Street, London, after a six-year relocation programme. Founded by the...
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Welsh skills shortage fuels working-class student drive
The Welsh Office this week announced plans to create more than 10,000 university places, primarily for people from working-class backgrounds, in Wales over the next five years. The drive to combat...
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A job's just part of the course
Nearly two-thirds of students are expected to take on part-time work this term. Harriet Swain reports Only a few years ago, many universities would throw students out if they caught them taking paid...
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A new super telescope
Astronomers at Queen's University, Belfast, are redefining the position of the edge of the solar system using a new camera on the Isaac Newton telescope in the Canary Islands. "There has been an...
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The age of openness
"Make sure that your files do not contain anything you would be unhappy or embarrassed to have to show to the individual to whom it relates," a Cambridge University memo advises, which shows that...
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Glittering prizes
John Sloboda, professor of psychology and founder and director of Keele University's unit for the study of musical skill, has received this year's British Psychological Society Presidents' Award for...
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The THES Diary
A keynote of optimism Further education's fortunes appear to be looking up again. Education secretary David Blunkett is to give a keynote address at the annual conference of the Association of...
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Don's Diary
What day is it? Grey-bearded, pony-tailed taxi-driver bringing me from Austin airport has trouble with address. "Don't go to that quarter much. Short trips, no tips." Left alone in the street with my...