From today's UK papers
GUARDIAN Chancellor Gordon Brown and development minister Clare Short will announce plans on Monday for a multibillion-pound international fund to provide cheap vaccines against childhood diseases to...
GUARDIAN Chancellor Gordon Brown and development minister Clare Short will announce plans on Monday for a multibillion-pound international fund to provide cheap vaccines against childhood diseases to...
Universities uncovered as arms investors Universities are major investors in the arms trade. Some 49 institutions held between them about 50 million shares in six companies making armaments...
FINANCIAL TIMES Princeton University, one of the most selective schools in the United States, is to give outright grants instead of loans to students on financial aid. GUARDIAN Lecturers' union...
Students are served infected meat The University of Malawi is investigating how meat infected with bovine tuberculosis was served to 500 students at its agricultural college. The students detected...
Female academics earn a fifth less than male colleagues Female academics earn almost 20 per cent less than their male colleagues, according to a survey by the Association of University...
Financial Times Cambridge University has released plans for a £2m "laboratory" for non-scientists that will give academics from other faculties the chance to brainstorm like scientists and...
Warning for US higher education Stanley O. Ikenberry, retiring president of the American Council on Education, warned this week that US higher education risks becoming a commodity, undermining...
£675 million windfall for research The first allocation from the government’s Science Research Investment Fund has divided £675 million between more than 100 English higher education institutions....
FINANCIAL TIMES Britain's electronics industry is losing a battle with the financial sector for talented graduates, a government-backed report will claim tomorrow. GUARDIAN Sixty-six per cent of...
UK urged not to ban Tamil Tigers Sri Lankan students have collected more than 50,000 signatures for a petition calling on Britain not to ban rebel Tamil Tigers, who have their international...
FINANCIAL TIMES A lethal form of food poisoning could be eliminated by feeding cattle with friendly bacteria that eradicate harmful E. coli strains from the animal's gut, according to Michael Doyle...
University employers chief appointed Jocelyn Prudence has been appointed chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association. Ms Prudence will succeed Peter Humphreys on March 5...
University of Melbourne Mary Galea , currently associate professor in physiotherapy, has been appointed to the inaugural chaor of clinical physiotherapy which will be located in the Austin and...
International Society of Electrochemistry Roge Parsons , of the University of Southampton, is the first recipient of the society's Frumkin Memorial Medal for his 'outstanding contributions to many...
Prime minister Tony Blair and his ministers have spelled out the shape of things to come in higher education if Labour wins the general election. A clutch of policies and initiatives launched this...