Real money to close Britain's skills gap
Welcome spending spree. Universities, science and further education say what more money will mean FEW working in post-compulsory education can begrudge further education a decent share of the...
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Happy landing at Britain's science base
Welcome spending spree. Universities, science and further education say what more money will mean NOW we know. The government's Pounds 1 billion for the science base, adding the research and funding...
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A twist in Estonia's history
IN AN age of global markets, it is well to recall that the university is the greatest "export package" of all. No sooner were they established in a few important cities of the 12th century than...
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Don's Diary
Sunday I am in Slovenia on a British Council sponsored teaching week. My mission, to lecture to students at the University of Ljubljana on British cultural history, literature and popular culture. On...
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Northern nostalgia for school dinners
LIKE most politicians, I am a very emotional person. I say this not because I am innately soppy. Indeed, any product of Lancashire County Council school meals in the 1960s is made of strong stuff. If...
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White paper hints at car parking levy
USERS of university or college car parks may face a new charge as a result of the transport white paper. While business premises will be targeted, a Department of Transport spokesman said other urban...
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Clampdown on RAE
THE higher education funding councils are to crack down on manipulation of the research assessment exercise by institutes that have identified how to optimise their research ratings. However there...
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RAE consultation has spawned two more consultations for health related research
The RAE consultation has spawned two more consultations for health-related research. Colin Smith, who chairs the British Medical Association's medical academic staff committee, has said that an...
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Scientists launch meteorite search
Copenhagen University scientists are leading a Danish expedition in Greenland to search for fragments of a meteorite that crashed to the ground last December and which could help solve some mysteries...
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Ofsted report attacks 'sloppy' research
Education research in the United Kingdom is "disturbingly sloppy and partisan" and the Pounds 70 million of public money it costs could be put to better use with a huge rationalisation of research...
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Puttnam to lead Nesta
THE film-maker and Labour peer Lord Puttnam is to head the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Nesta has received Pounds 200 million from the National Lottery.
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1997/98 reveal that: * Ethnic minorities make up 12.8 per cent of all first-year United Kingdom domiciled students * Women made up 54.2 per cent...
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Growth likely to wipe out cash gains
The Comprehensive Spending Review means a 1 per cent per capita cut in real terms for higher and further education. HIGHER EDUCATION Vice-chancellors have declared that the government's spending...
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Correction
LAST week The THES incorrectly reported that the European Commission was proposing a "fivefold" increase in its support for biotechnology research under Framework V. The increase is, in fact, 50 per...
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Oxford chemists spin again
A CHEMICAL software company, Oxford Molecular, created by researchers at the University of Oxford is to launch a Pounds 2.5 million spin-off firm. MicroGenics will help develop a series of...