Employers choose their elite league
More than 25 per cent of employers recruit exclusively from an elite group of top universities, a two-year study of employers' attitudes will reveal next week. The GET Report: Graduate Employment and...
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Academy reward for medical science
The Academy of Medical Sciences was launched this week with 350 founder fellows nominated by its sponsors: the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges...
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IVF pioneer wins recognition for work
Reshmi Varma, the former director of St George's Hospital's fertility unit who claimed constructive dismissal against the school, has resolved her action amicably at an industrial tribunal. In a...
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Scots call for research assessment watchdog
The Scottish Universities Research Policy Consortium, which includes 14 universities and colleges, has called for a watchdog to ensure that research assessment criteria are applied fairly when...
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Corrections
In the THES survey of vice-chancellors' pay (February 6) the amount of Pounds 83,000 shown under the entry for Queen Margaret College includes both Joan Stringer's remuneration from her appointment...
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Internet
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, has a complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 available to all subscribers to the newspaper, who can reach the archive with a specially...
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Lecturers' pay team to meet
AN ADMIRAL, a businesswoman and a local authority chief executive will be among members of the new Independent Review Committee deciding future approaches to lecturers' pay. Full membership of the...
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Playing fields in sell-off
HOMELESS premier league football club Wimbledon is bidding against second division Fulham to secure playing fields owned by the University of London. But although Wimbledon is thought to have bid...
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Big science may be at risk
It would take the high-profile collapse of just one big collaborative science project for the whole system of joint funding for massive research facilities to be brought into question. Luke Georghiou...
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'Focus funds for success'
British funding for astronomy and particle physics may be spread too thinly and be producing too few results, according to the incoming chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research...
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FP5 in budget battle
The European Parliament is squaring up for a new battle over research funding following a ministers' agreement to cut the Framework budget. Members of the Council of Research Ministers agreed last...
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RGO to shut as PPARC pulls out
Royal Greenwich Observatory in Cambridge is set to close, paving the way for a single United Kingdom astronomical research establishment in Edinburgh. In a statement this week, Cambridge University...
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Fill up in Philly
The mayor of Philadelphia, site of the 150th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, stunned nutritionists in his welcoming speech by telling the assembled audience of the...
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Naked democracy
Doug Trainer is doubtless horrified (see Antithesis last week), but student union leaders at Bristol University seem determined to do something about member apathy. So desperate were they to attract...
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Fun in the PPARC
The future leader of Britain's physicists, Ian Halliday, incoming chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, is already finding life mildly puzzling. He told the Royal...