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Face it, the last thing we need is more scientists
Become a scientist, our youngsters were told. Your nation needs you. But students have failed to enlist in subjects they find boring and irrelevant. Simon Jenkins argues that it is time to stop...
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Is all the world still his stage?
In the days of the British Empire, colonial students were forced to read Shakespeare. Why should they bother now? Jennifer Wallace reports Afternoon tea on the middle Tuesday of the biannual...
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21x21 vision
(Photograph) - "21x21" vision: a student strools past ranged small works of art at a summer exhibition that is being staged at Northumbria University Gallery, Newcastle. Every exhibitor was required...
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Appointments
Open University Fraser Woodburn, registrar and secretary at the University of Essex, has been appointed secretary of the university. University of Teesside Elizabeth Roberts, postdoctoral researcher...
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Sticking his neck out
(Photograph) - Sticking his neck out: James Acord, artist-in-residence at Imperial College, London, has his nuclear waste handling number tattooed on his neck. Interview, page 20
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Call for genetic food watchdog
THE ROYAL Society has called for independent monitoring of genetically modified crops. The call is contained in a Royal Society statement on genetically modified food, which concludes that there are...
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Fact file
Findings from the Further Education Funding Council for England reveal that for 1996-97: * 11 per cent of all unemployed qualifiers were males aged 25 and over with first degrees * 9 per cent of all...
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Don's Diary
As chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, the end of August was one of the busiest times of the year for Tony Higgins. A-level results were published and school leavers...
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Admin charge action call
STUDENT union leaders have called on the government to use reserve powers against institutions refusing to abandon fee administration charges. The University of East London and University College...
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Pounds 22.4m cash bonus
THERE were winners and losers this week as the Higher Education Funding Council for England confirmed universities' shares of a Pounds 22.4 million grant for access. Some institutions scooped more...
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BA chief wants a ministry of science - and ministers with science
A SEPARATE department of science should be established by the government, the president of the British Association, Colin Blakemore, said this week. The science minister, Lord Sainsbury, had earlier...
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Dunces annoy business
Most students are "dunces" when it comes to knowledge of the business world, a national survey has found. The majority, 75 per cent, never read the business pages of national newspapers because they...
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Bidders line up for second student debt sell-off
BIDS are invited for the second Pounds 1 billion sale of student loan debt from 17 potential applicants. The government will select three or four candidates to go to the next stage of competition....
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Ulster loses appeal against sexual bias
Ulster University has lost an appeal against a Pounds 32,000 compensation award it was ordered to pay last year for unlawful sex discrimination. The Court of Appeal has upheld in full the award that...