Finding new ways to measure success
Universities are still described as 'old' and 'new'. But these labels do not do justice to a diverse and rapidly changing sector. Alan Thomson reports A new pecking order is emerging in English...
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Shephard rounds up Employment
The Government has scrapped the Employment Department and divided its duties between the Department for Education and the Department of Trade and Industry. In this week's Cabinet reshuffle, Gillian...
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Call for chemistry shake-up
Many chemistry departments cannot survive in their present form, says a report by the Royal Society of Chemistry. There are too many undergraduate places; insufficient money to keep up the research...
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The future? A pay-your-own-way free-for-all
Imagine tomorrow's world. Then think again. Fari Aklaghi looks at how scenario planning can help you be more realistic. That higher education faces considerable challenges in the near future is...
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Move to mark fails as passes was 'a mistake'
VICE chancellor Mike Fitzgerald has admitted that an internal Thames Valley University memorandum ordering assessors to turn student fails into passes was amistake. In a frank interview with The 91茄子S...
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Business elite head abroad
Gerard Valin has the task of steering France's top business school in an increasingly multinational direction into the new century. He arrived as the new director-general of Groupe ESSEC in January...
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Lots of questions but too few answers
The shadow secretary for education and the Lib Dem spokesman on education respond to the green paper The Government publication of its green paper The Learning Age reminded me of the 1970s reggae hit...
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Bad news travelled too slowly
As civil servants face the BSE inquiry, Fred Pearce reports that experts learned of the disease informally (below) and hears a frustrated, ignored researcher (right) A sorry story of administrative...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Personal administration has piled up in six months of trying to cope with two jobs. I am a senior lecturer in rail systems engineering at Sheffield University but have been seconded to the...
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The long march to capitalism
Growing out of the Plan
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Europe looks to student market
British vice chancellors and principals are much more optimistic than their continental peers that student numbers will grow beyond the year 2000, a pan-European survey has found. Out of 30...
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War on 'superbugs'
Ian Chopra on developments at Leeds's Antimicrobial Research Centre Before the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s many people died from bacterial infections. The advent of antibiotics...
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The Pounds 5bn super agency
This week David Blunkett unveiled ministers' plans for a new post-16 education and training system. 91茄子S reporters analyse the details. The 80-page Learning to Succeed white paper sets out a...
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The spin-off and win game
Scottish universities are profiting handsomely by commercialising their research. Olga Wojtas reports. SCOTLAND'S higher education institutions earn more than Pounds 6.7 million a year from...
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Campuses urged to strip assets
A leading Australian business analyst and forecaster has urged universities to sell off all their property holdings, with an estimated worth of up to Aus$10 billion (Pounds 5 billion), and use the...