Round Robbins
However, not everything at the CVCP is on a downward spiral. The evidence to Dearing runs to 70 pages and costs Pounds 25 for four volumes. By contrast, Roberts held up the CVCP evidence to Robbins...
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Baptism of fire
Alumnus to be proud of No 79 is the man who set such a frank, forthright and open standard for companies in the wake of alarming glitches - Eurotunnel's Robert Malpas, whose company's ability to...
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FE calls for more subdegrees
Further education chiefs have echoed calls from ministers for more two-year subdegree programmes and a radical redefinition of the present higher education system. In its submission to Sir Ron...
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NUS calls for checks on gas
THE National Union of Students is calling on universities and private accommodation agencies to redouble their efforts to ensure the safety of gas equipment after the death of another student from...
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Geographers in revolt over Shell
The Royal Geographical Society could face a spate of academic resignations following a special general meeting on Monday to vote on sponsorship by Shell. There have been strains within the society...
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Architects told to think green
ENGINEERS and architects should consult the public much more about their work, according to a report out next week. Peter Carolin of Cambridge University and Peter Guthrie of structural civil...
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Disabled rights to work set universities thinking
HIGHER education institutions can no longer legally discriminate against employees from next week, but they can still discriminate against students. The employment provisions of the Disability...
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UK tops import charts
The United Kingdom has the fastest growth rate in the import of technology over the past 20 years out of ten countries surveyed by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development. In 1996...
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Nexus seeks Lib-Dem partners
Nexus, the centre-left public policy network, is hoping to build contacts with the Liberal Democratic party. Identified with the Labour party and its Blairite wing since its launch earlier this year...
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Highland battle rages
An Inverness economic consultant has come under fire for dismissing the University of the Highlands and Islands project as "third rate". Tony Mackay wrote in the latest Mackay Consultants' monthly...
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Rainbow's quest for master brew
FEW scientists have achieved so much in the irrepressible quest for the ultimate pint of beer than the late, great brewer Cyril Rainbow. Today, Rainbow's quest - along with his very name - lives on...
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Gucci-clad and grandiose
THE CURRENT batch of prospective business leaders networking the grandiose Georgian campus of the European Business School in the heart of London's Regent's Park have an air of collective confidence...
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A dedicated arbiter of credit
Harold Silver of the Open University explains how its validation service works. Little understood and little reported, an alternative and largely private higher education sector is mushrooming. One...
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Waiting for Sir Ron and... the second coming of Christ
IN DEEPEST Berkshire, a small college of Seventh Day Adventists is preparing for the second coming of Christ. Newbold College, set in 80 acres near the village of Binfield and catering for some 350...
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Partners in a burgeoning club
NEARLY 200,000 students, over half of them undergraduates, benefit from partnership arrangements between universities and other institutions. Many of these students are in further education, but a...