Virtual v-cs
The University of Armageddon's search for a new vice-chancellor has turned up an interesting real-life dilemma. For a confidential memo posted on the university's website from a real university...
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Rich scientist
It is unlikely that either of the applicants is George Poste, research director of drugs giant SmithKline Beecham, who could not afford the job even with 100 per cent of the salary. Although chief...
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Fried eggs with a PFI yolk
The public sector has turned to private firms for building project aid, writes Mike Sherrington University and college building schemes have always been more or less free of some of the worst...
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Teletubby boycott
As Edinburgh's tenth international science festival gets under way tomorrow, Napier University is highlighting a debate on developments in biotechnology, between Kenneth Boyd of Edinburgh Royal...
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Jackboot in waiting
Alumnus to be proud of number 167 may sound like Georges Simenon's most famous creation, but has a rather more sinister significance in France. Bruno Megret, second in command of the French National...
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Blair splashes Pounds 30m on year 2000 bug busters
Prime Minister Tony Blair has unveiled plans to provide Pounds 30 million to train 20,000 people to tackle the potentially catastrophic "millennium bug", writes Phil Baty. Experts have warned that...
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Sixth-form parity plans in offing
Proposals for common funding arrangements for all education and training for 16 to 19-year-olds will go to ministers next month, as pressure mounts to close the funding gap between further education...
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Incorporation spells job cuts
A Northern Ireland college is facing job losses as incorporation finally dawned in the province this week. From Wednesday - "appropriately, April Fools' Day", one union official said - the 17 further...
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Class actor: Richard Wilson
(Photograph) - Class actor: Richard Wilson joined politicians, union leaders, teachers and students outside Parliament to celebrate the fifth anniversary of English FE colleges' incorporation....
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Welsh start lifelong journey
THE Welsh Office this week published its own consultation paper on lifelong learning, which includes a Pounds 1 million partnership between further and higher education. The broad thrust of the new...
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Demand swells for nursing graduates
Nursing must become a graduate-only profession if it is to attract applicants, university nursing departments said this week. The Council of Deans and Heads of Universities' Faculties of Nursing,...
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Electronic publishing shock ahead
More than 5,000 university libraries worldwide have united to warn that the cost of electronic access to information could jump by 40 per cent over that for print subscriptions within three years....
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In the dock: Winnie Parson
(Photograph) - In the dock: Winnie Parson, in the clothes she wore when she worked as a welder during world war two, with Jean Hicks, a third-year student at Plymouth University, who staged an...
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Transatlantic journal swap
ELECTRONIC back copies of nearly 50 research journals in 11 different subjects are now available to universities on subscription. The Joint Information Systems Committee of the United Kingdom higher...
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White roses sniff success
White Rose Research, a joint venture between three Yorkshire universities, is to become a limited company after securing more than Pounds 1.5 million in its first year. The consortium of Leeds,...