Campus Tories vanish
Support for the Conservative party among university and college lecturers has all but evaporated, according to a poll conducted for The Times Higher Education Supplement by ICM Research. Beaten into...
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Iron Lady heir shows his mettle fatigue
Can John Major rely on his "nice man next door" persona to woo the electorate? Will Tony Blair inspire voters with his personal charm and fixed smile? Or can Paddy Ashdown persuade the waverers to...
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Natfhe champions FE as it lobbies candidates
LECTURERS union Natfhe has called for improved further education funding as part of a lobbying campaign aimed at MPs and parliamentary candidates in the run up to the general election. Around 2,500...
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A popular thing of patches
More institutions are offering a seamless progression between further and higher education as the sectors see the benefits of working together. Franchised courses, validation arrangements and...
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We love the day job, but...
Lorna Fitzsimons, 29, attracted attention for not going into party politics, unions or the media when her term as president of the National Union of Students ended in 1994, instead taking a lobbying...
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Readies, steady, go?
Someone who may be reading the opinion polls with about as much equanimity as John Major is Brandon Gough, the noted Kent-dwelling chairman of Yorkshire Water and of the Higher Education Funding...
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Run, Bunny, run
The powers that be at the London Institute clearly believe in mucking in with their students. So much so that the institute's Davies Street building, just off Oxford Street, boasts a swipe-card...
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Feared by the bad...
More bad news for new Labour, and Gordon Brown in particular: attempts are being made to revive Robin Hood, that icon of old-fashioned progressive taxation. Not content with his own movie, he is now...
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Strone alone?
Edinburgh 51国产视频's Neil MacCormick, standing as the Scottish National Party candidate in Argyll and Bute, is scarcely a carpetbagger since both his family and that of his wife come from the area...
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Souls-searching
With outrageous election claims beginning to mount, the candidates' lists furnished a couple more. William Waldegrave, the cabinet minister whose intellectual ingenuity attracted the attention of...
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Bell, book and Cantab
A ripple of applause for Alumnus to be Proud of No 97, the almost all-party-approved candidate for Tatton in the general election, standing against the allegedly dishonourable Neil Hamilton. Martin...
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Science minister idea wins support
Huw Richards takes a hard look at what the parties are offering in further and higher education Candidates from all parties except the Conservatives are heavily in favour of appointing a dedicated...
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Labour bets on a science lottery
AN incoming Labour government would look to the National Lottery as a means of funding innovative science and technology projects after the turn of the century. The party was expected to announce...
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Lib Dems promise Pounds 700m
Huw Richards takes a hard look at what the parties are offering in further and higher education The Liberal Democrats promised further and higher education an extra Pounds 700 million per year by the...
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Rich seam at interface
The Happy coupling of further and higher education could give birth to a funding council merger The Dearing committee has officially committed itself to addressing the relationship be-tween higher...