Grants
University of Birmingham Charities (continued from last week) Dr B. Levine and Professors S. Perry and J. Coote, Pounds 110,684 from British Heart Foundation (analysis of the molecular mechanisms of...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 1.5 per cent of UK first degree graduates became self-employed * 42 per cent going into self-employment were female * 58...
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Whinge factor
Please get in touch all those of you out there who have been beneficiaries of government education policy. As we said last week, we need your help to counteract accusations by David Blunkett that we...
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Lecturers expected to vote for action
Modern languages lecturers at the University of Northumbria were expected to vote in favour of industrial action this week in protest against the ending of short-term contracts for three part-time...
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On the buses
(Photograph) - Doncaster College advertising students Nathalie Jennings and Holly St Leger saw the posters they designed go up on the sides of buses last week as part of a public awareness campaign...
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Research contest off till 2001
THE research assessment exercise may be delayed by a year to 2001. Submissions to the funding councils' consultation on the exercise - the method by which the councils assess and selectively fund...
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Guild of Picture Editors Awards
(Photograph) - Testing times: this picture by Pauline Neild won the black-and-white regional prize in the recent Guild of Picture Editors Awards. It shows artist Martell Lindsell holding works she...
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Staffordshire bull gets Real
Staffordshire University's Real Gallery in New York is inappropriately named. Its current exhibition, "The last paintings of Gary Richer", is anything but real. Gary Richer is an invention of fine...
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Anglia hate mail under police scrutiny
Police are investigating a hate-mail campaign against six staff at Anglia Polytechnic University who have supported complaints of nepotism against business school head Hugh Jenkins. A spokeswoman for...
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Glasgow considers position of stalker
Glasgow Caledonian University will review the position of a business administration professor found guilty of stalking his former secretary. Gordon Anderson was fined Pounds 500 at Glasgow Sheriff...
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Not all purchases are strictly by the book
Students check for academic waffle before buying a book, says a survey of student attitudes by the Marketing Group of the Council of Academic and Professional Publishers. The report found that...
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Cut-price text scheme returns
The government is trying to resuscitate the Educational Low-Priced Book Scheme, which makes cheap British textbooks available to students in developing countries. Funding was axed by the previous...
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Industry wants more applied research aid
Philip Ruffles, director of engineering and technology at Rolls-Royce plc, this week called on the government to increase its support for applied research in British universities to help boost...
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Arts body denounces 'assault on freedom'
Attempts to pulp a book under the Obscene Publications Act have been attacked as "an astonishing assault on academic freedom" by the Council of University Deans of Arts and Humanities in letters to...
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Ofsted names adjudicator to hear complaints
The Office for Standards in Education has appointed an independent adjudicator to consider complaints about inspections. The move, which Education Secretary David Blunkett praised as a commitment to...