Entrepreneurs put on research cap
Specialist posts, sabbaticals and secondments for academics and captains of industry and staff training have emerged as Scottish university strategies to exploit the commercial potential of research...
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Community repair work neglected
Northern Ireland's further and higher education institutions could do more to combat sectarianism, according to a study launched this week. The study by Quinliven/Gilpin Black Consultancy was...
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King's College buys Public Record Office
King's College London is buying the former Public Record Office in Chancery Lane in a multimillion pound deal. It has been granted planning permission to convert the Grade II-listed 19th-century...
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Firms send students to Northern Ireland
More than half the foreign students who come to the United Kingdom for work experience go to Northern Ireland. Study and exchange placements have gained an increasing reputation internationally and...
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Oxford focuses on Gemini telescopes
Oxford University is to become the centre for scientists wanting to use the Gemini telescopes to study infrared images of astronomical phenomena. The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council...
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Happiness is ... being a medical secretary
Medical secretaries, butchers, cleaners and petrol pump attendants enjoy far greater job satisfaction than academics in higher and further education, according to researchers at Bath University....
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Nurses prefer more practice, less theory
Some 88 per cent of new nurses and midwives think their studies prepared them well for practice, according to a survey of 4,880 final-year students. But more than half said they preferred more...
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British education must embrace a new world
In the last of our summer series on education at the end of the century, Howard Newby asks if UK universities are up to the challenge of globalisation In recent years higher education in the UK has...
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Challenges of the new century
Pay, quality assurance and other topical matters are bound to dominate next week's annual meeting of the vice-chancellors of Britain's universities. But what is really needed is a broader strategic...
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Saving for study
The government is rightly alarmed at the pace of social polarisation. As booming shares and rising house prices make the rich richer, the poor, lacking jobs, qualifications, and even access to IT,...
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Principal defends RAE
The research assessment exercise's selective funding is an inevitable consequence of technological advance rather than being elitist and unfair, according to Edinburgh University's principal, Sir...
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And the winner is... me
'The panel would want to be confident that what they were doing was fair and that Professor Brooke was not unduly advantaged' The don appointed to Oxford University's prestigious new chair in science...
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Getting personal
Finally, for all those vice-chancellors out there wondering what to do with their recent 4.8 per cent pay rise, the small ads offer a suggestion - the personalised numberplate VC 7.
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Unappealing visitor
The Oxbridge Visitor system is even more iniquitous than your article indicates ("Visitor is unwelcome in law", THES, September 3). In 1988, as a Cambridge PhD student, I appealed to the visitor, the...
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Balancing act
You report ("Science loses out to Brit hype", THES, September 3) that the British Council has cut back its exchanges programmes in favour of exhibitions and publicity campaigns. This is not the case...