Quangos take note of Nolan's findings
Tony Tysome on the sleaze committee's implications for higher education. Of all the issues brought to the attention of the Nolan committee as it prepared its first report on Standards in Public Life...
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Pilot helmets give surgeons new image
Surgeons of the future will wear fighter pilot-style helmets so that they can view both a patient and their radiological image at the same time, a leading radiologist has predicted. The image will be...
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Mersey firms asked for jobs
Liverpool University has opened a Pounds 2 million graduate employment unit using Pounds 770,000 funding from the European Commission on urban regeneration and the rest from private companies and...
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Japan joins search for grail
Japan is to put 5 billion yen (Pounds 37 million) into CERN's large hadron collider project. The LHC is a particle accelerator which will search for the Higgs boson - the holy grail of particle...
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Tussle over vouchers
The second White Paper on competitiveness is expected to reveal Government thinking on a voucher system for post-16 education. There is a Whitehall tussle between the Departments for Education and...
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Split in art and design diplomas
The market for pre-degree art and design courses has split into three as colleges boycott efforts to create a unified national system. Thirty further education institutions have joined a new...
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Graduates are ill prepared for jobs market
Universities place too little emphasis on preparing students for employment, according to the compilers of a new report which shows that, while the demand for graduates is greater than ever, the...
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Right on tee: Nottingham University mechanical engineers Steve Mather and Dennis Vardy
(Photograph) - Right on tee: Nottingham University mechanical engineers Steve Mather and Dennis Vardy say the golf club they have designed is easier to swing. By redistributing the weight of the club...
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Drive to promote vocational A levels
The Employment Department has launched pilot projects in ten regions to bring employers and further education colleges closer and promote so-called "vocational A levels". James Paice, minister for...
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Scots float education and industry merger
The Scottish Office is proposing a merger of its education and industry departments as part of a national review of the civil service. The move would underline the widespread belief that education...
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Heard it through the grapevine
(Photograph) - Heard it through the grapevine: Swansea College struck a chord when it organised what it believes to be the country's first course on rock music management. Kevin Palmer (left),...
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Medics lobby for Pounds 1,000 top up
London University medical students held a day of action on Monday in a bid to win an increased student loan for medical, dental and veterinary students, who they say are suffering increasing hardship...
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Guildhall victimised lecturer
London Guildhall University subjected one of its senior law lecturers to unlawful victimisation on four occasions over three years, an industrial tribunal has found. Amir Majid first brought a claim...
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Mercury's magnetic pull
A mission to Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, will be discussed by an international group of scientists next week at Imperial College, London. The planet has puzzled scientists since 1974,...
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Welsh consider capital idea
Welsh universities and colleges have been asked whether they would like recurrent and capital funding to be merged. A consultation paper issued this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for...