Fees fail to curb rush for places
TUITION fees have failed to deter people from higher education as the rush for places goes on, according to the admissions service. Figures released this week show the number of people withdrawing...
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Top marks for A-level science students
Science students gained more top grades in this year's A levels than in 1997. And the proportion of students taking science subjects was also slightly up on the previous year, writes Alison Goddard...
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Graduates rejecting teaching
A recruitment crisis is looming in teacher training, hitting both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, it emerged this week. Experts predict the biggest drop for a decade in places filled on Post...
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Admissions process reviewed
UNIVERSITIES will be consulted later this year on proposals to change the admissions process and do away with the present system of conditional offers, writes Alan Thomson. The proposals involve...
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Routes to a knowledge industry
Universities must promote links between subjects and with industry if they are to nourish modern society, argues Werner Hirsch. THE modern world, for all its sophistication, still has difficulty...
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Examination board row over missing A-level papers
An examination board at the centre of worries over computer failures was this week rowing about missing A-Level papers. Twenty-one Bodmin Community College pupils in Cornwall gained unclassified...
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Minister warns Scot principals
Helen Liddell, Scotland's new education minister, has introduced herself to the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals with a broadside against institutions charging students for tuition...
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Bullied staff given counselling
Free counselling by clinical psychologists is being offered to staff at Anglia Polytechnic University, in the wake of a survey that found bullying and intimidation are a serious problem at the...
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Payback time
Vice-chancellors looking forward to an extra little something in their pay packets in the new academic year are advised to start noting down all those late nights wrestling with the annual report,...
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Battle of the oldies
Being old is good for a university, so when Durham advertised itself this week as "England's third oldest university", University College, London, immediately sought to put the record straight. While...
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Top job dilemma
Among the oldest rules of top jobs in academic - or, for that matter, any other - life is that it is very important to choose one's predecessor carefully. Follow somebody who was universally...
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Secret service search
Rumours persist about subterranean rubber rooms in the former MI6 headquarters in London, which are now home to the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority (Antithesis, August 21). For...
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Russian power play
Alumnus to be proud of number 186 appears to be positioning himself as the Russian answer to British politician R.A "Rab" Butler, who spent the late 1950s and the early sixties about to become prime...
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Move to Greenwich begins
GREENWICH University is preparing to move into one of the most prestigious campuses in the country despite establishment "snobbery" against the "jumped-up" polytechnic. The university plans to move...
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Opposition to Greenwich University move to Royal Naval College
Opposition to Greenwich University's moving into the Royal Naval College has swayed between the anodyne and the aggressive. Country Life, July 31, 1997: "Let the government seize the opportunity to...