Pounds 5.3m centre is jewel in Midlands' crown
Ministers in search of a model for a working partnership between higher education and industry may be encouraged by recent developments in Birmingham's "jewellery quarter". Last week, the University...
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Wales' botanic idea takes root
Wales is likely to emulate England and Scotland in having a national botanic garden following support from Secretary of State John Redwood. Four areas have been shortlisted as potential sites for the...
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Modern approach to crime 'medieval'
Crime should be seen and treated as a disease, according to the doctor who found the cure for tuberculosis 40 years ago. Sir John Crofton, who this week received the City of Edinburgh District...
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TTA plans review of funding
The new Teacher Training Agency is to launch a wide-ranging review of funding for initial and in-service teacher training. It has invited bids for an independent study team to consult with higher...
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Griffin Price and David Little
(Photograph) - Dead beat: Griffin Price and David Little contemplate violence on the night watch in the Welsh College of Music and Drama's Violent Night, one of the finalists in the National Student...
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Durham okays Gemini systems
Two telescopes to be built in Hawaii and Chile have received a technical boost from Durham University scientists who have successfully tested the ambitious optical systems intended for them. The...
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Howling wolf
Scottish's normally placatory education minister Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, has been accused of crying wolf. Warning that quality is under threat because of funding cuts, perhaps? Nothing so...
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Hot seat
Spotted recently outside the Houndsditch headquarters of London Guildhall University was a vehicle costing rather more than Ms Stewart's venerable Vauxhall - to wit a magnificently ostentatious...
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Lean machine
Lean production is obviously being followed by lean living for Heather Stewart of the Southampton Institute. On page three of the institute's newsletter Sinews, she is seen pocketing Pounds 120 (and...
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Italian job
Should the University of Poppleton's Dr Piercemuller lose his berth after the next research assessment and, forsaking the obvious refuge of the quality industry, choose instead to make his de facto...
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You talkin' to me?
A taxi driver writes. . . In the Woman's Own letters page, a taxi driver (name and address supplied) is unimpressed by claims of student poverty. "I see how they spend their grants. . . As soon as...
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Cheap jibe
The secretary-general of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, addressing the council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities in Aberdeen, highlighted the work being done to encourage women...
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Pressing question
The nation's journalists are clearly in a ferment over Edinburgh University's support for the city's international science festival, and the role it sees for itself in supporting the local and...
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Labour pains
Deep in the bowels of Walworth Road the details of an education framework for the next century are being hotly debated. Key to Labour thinking is a unified qualification system for all students aged...
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Meeting of minds off MPs' agenda
What important function is performed irregularly by David Blunkett, the shadow education secretary; hardly at all by Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman; and only on special...