1,000 extra doctors needed
BRITAIN needs to train 1,000 extra doctors every year to keep pace with changing health needs and working patterns, a new report claims. The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee this week...
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Making up takes time to do
Universities in the Canary Islands have learned the benefits of working together. Rebecca Warden reports Six YEARS ago the two universities of the Canary Islands were not on speaking terms - one...
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Daily exercises keep the clock running
People who live longer do not have to fear a decrepit old age if they just keep active, say scientists Dorothy Dobson, Dundee University assistant director of physical education, pioneered exercise...
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Brown dwarf stars
Universities in the Canary Islands have learned the benefits of working together. Rebecca Warden reports THE Astrophysics Institute of the Canaries was founded in the 1960s when Spain's first...
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More funds to go via HEFCE
University and college funding. THES reporters assess the impact of the chancellor's pre-budget statement Quango chiefs will have a firmer hold on higher education's purse-strings under funding...
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Alzheimer's gene link to the heart
People who live longer do not have to fear a decrepit old age if they just keep active, say scientists TAKING action to protect against heart disease could also help protect people against Alzheimer'...
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No sell-by date for exercise
People who live longer do not have to fear a decrepit old age if they just keep active, say scientists THE IMAGE of old age is one of increasing physical weakness as muscles gradually deteriorate and...
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Dead reckoning
(Photograph) - Julie Rigg of the Cemetery Research Group at the University of York has just researched and edited the Directory of Cemeteries and Crematoria in the United Kingdom. Photo: Samuel...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: 0.7 per cent of first degree, full-time undergraduates are dyslexic 0.2 per cent of all first degree, full-time...
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Ill wind
(Photograph) - Sailing students from Southampton University struggle to righten their boat in the Student Dinghy National Championships. The university took the team prize after strong winds in...
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A healthy partnership
It was good to see coverage of the changes in non-medical education and training (THES, November 21). Thousands of students are involved in NHS-contracted education. There may well be "alarm at...
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Blunkett seizes fee power
UNIVERSITIES will be subject to an unprecedented level of central government control if education secretary David Blunkett is granted reserve powers to regulate top-up fees. Only a revolt in the...
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Budget letter warns on pay
IN ITS pre-budget letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England this week the government promised that an extra Pounds 125 million for institutions next year will contain real terms cuts...
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Bludgeoning Blunkett
(Photograph) - Thousands of students brought traffic to a halt in central London this week in protest at the introduction of tuition fees and loss of grants. The demonstration, organised by the...
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Fryer proposes Ofsted for universities
UNIVERSITIES would be subject to the same quality assurance inspection regime as schools and colleges, and they would have to demonstrate a commitment to widening access as a condition of public...