Class size surprise
JUST 20 students in a room will not necessarily make for a better learning experience than an auditorium of 250, according to a Canadian researcher. University of Guelph professor Sid Gilbert has...
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Graduate salaries take off
THE lowest unemployment rate in 24 years has sent demand soaring for United States university and college graduates, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a coalition of...
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Howard plans Pounds 400m grant cuts
The conservative government of prime minister John Howard plans to reduce its grants to Australian higher education just as graduates repay increasing amounts under the national Higher Education...
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Budget ups costs by Pounds 100m
Gordon Brown's budget could saddle universities with a Pounds 100 million a year bill, according to university finance officers. Miles Hedges, head of the British Universities Finance Directors Group...
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Scottish higher education has not benefited from funding package earmarked for education
There is considerable disappointment in Scottish higher education that the sector has not benefited from the Pounds 22 million funding package earmarked for Scottish education, writes Olga Wojtas....
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UFI flagship loses its crew
MINISTERS disbanded the advisory group behind the government's flagship University for Industry more than three months ago. Alienated members complained this week that the details of the project have...
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Discrimination rife, say women scientists
A CHARTER to ensure a fair deal for women scientists was launched this week. Valerie Ellis, assistant general secretary of the Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists (IPMS), one of...
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Women lecturers taking the Open University to an industrial tribunal
Six women lecturers are taking the Open University to an industrial tribunal accusing them of sex discrimination for including clauses in fixed-term contracts under which they waive their rights to...
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Eye-opening experience
(Photograph) - Visitors to the National Artificial Eye Centre, which this week opened its doors for the first time for National Science Week, might be forgiven for thinking someone or something was...
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Under-18s dilemma for Scottish Office
The Scottish Office is facing the unpalatable choice of treating young Scots less favourably than young English or underwriting an extra tranche of student support. One of the public funding...
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Surveys differ on student response to fees
ONLY 10 per cent of final-year students in top universities say paying tuition fees would have made it less likely for them to start university, according to High Fliers, an independent research...
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Principals' pay rises set a bad example
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has condemned university principals' big pay rises as setting a bad example to other staff. In a letter to fellow minister George Foulkes, Mr Wilson said: "I...
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Staff pay offer 'in line with public sector policy'
Higher education unions and employers met this week to thrash out pay for next year, with lecturers warning they would refuse to accept a deal below 3.4 per cent. The eight pay negotiating groups...
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Soaring words
(Photograph) - Eighteen-year-old Hannah Platts, an English and business studies A-level student at Doncaster Sixth Form Centre, declaims in a six-hour non-stop sponsored poetry reading at Doncaster...
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Which subject area gives you the best chance of finding a job?
Specified first destination of undergraduate students by subject, 1995/96 Area of study % unemployed Medicine & Dentistry 0.2% Veterinary Science 1.1% Law 3.8% Subjects Allied to Medicine 3.8...