Mappers in second bid
The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire will seek planning permission next week to more than double in size with a view to commercialising research on mapping human and animal genes. It...
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UfI on course to hit participation target
The University for Industry is poised to realise the government's pledge to increase higher education participation to 50 per cent among 18 to 30-year-olds, its chief executive said this week....
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TECs may be axed
Training and enterprise councils, a legacy of Thatcherite Britain, could be abolished in their present form as part of a government overhaul of post-16 education and training. Senior TEC officials...
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Union backs THES
'There are fundamental questions of how the university's procedures allowed this to languish for so many years after it had first been identified' Complaints about flawed and "incorrect" teaching...
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A-level reforms to go baccalaureate route
Ministers were expected to pave the way to a new European baccalaureate-style advanced level qualifications system with the announcement today of reforms to broaden 16 to 19-year-old study. The...
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Best foot forward
(Photograph) - New-generation programmable Lego Mindstorms robot at an Edinburgh University seminar, 'Smartening up for the next millennium'. The seminar highlighted the technology and techniques of...
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Falling for a nose job
Take one man, the smell of a female armpit and a written description of a woman and place them in a room together. Do not tell the man that he is being exposed to female armpit odour. Result? When...
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Conflicting answers to popping the question
Newspaper and media surveys that report the decline of marriage tell us more about the question being asked than about marriage, says new research from the University of Loughborough. Rachel Lawes, a...
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Encounters of an unfair kind
Why do small subject areas and old universities do better in teaching quality assessments? In the second part of our analysis, Phil Baty questions peer review Academics acting as teaching quality...
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
Nearly 20 years after the British government took the controversial step of entering the fee-paying global higher education market, it seems the gamble has paid off. In 1980, there were 100,000...
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Demand for degrees out strips supply
France has belatedly started a determined campaign to catch up with its "Anglo-Saxon" competitors in the international market of higher education, setting out to entice foreign students, particularly...
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
Australian universities this year will ride on the promotion wagons of the Australian Tourist Commission to sell their wares around the world. For the first time, the nation's big education exporters...
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
With 97 million people expected in higher education by 2010, universities worldwide are moving into South America, China and the Gulf in an attempt to bag the new recruits first, says Tony Tysome...
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UK views crisis as opportunity to re-establish control
UK members of the European Parliament and academics involved in European education and training fear that Leonardo will inevitably be affected by the hiatus created by the resignation of the European...
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Exeter profited from link
The THES examines fallout from the report that led EU commissioners to quit Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice-chancellor of Exeter University, acted as a Pounds 2,000-a-day consultant to the agency at the...