Vets face axings
ACADEMIC posts are to be axed at London's Royal Veterinary College, threatening research into livestock diseases such as BSE. The college said that 13 staff - seven academic and related staff and six...
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Close season
Ray Baker, chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council, told a meeting of eminent science policy-makers this week that the success rate for grant applications to the...
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No puppet on a string
No reassurance from the Department for Education and Employment for those worried about the government's passion for spin doctoring. A press conference was held in London this week to announce an...
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Just like magic
Fortunately, Blunkett will always have his natural sense of humour to sweeten any bitter little political pills he may prescribe. At the Association of Colleges conference in Harrogate he announced a...
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Babel talk
Glasgow University's latest staff newsletter tells of the heroism of the estates and buildings division, each year replaces 8,000 lightbulbs, deals with almost 1,000 burst pipes, 600 blocked drains...
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Rabbi-rousers
Sir Isaiah Berlin, who died last week aged 88, was the epitome of those open-minded, cosmopolitan intellectuals from central Europe who made British academic life, both in the humanities and the...
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Blood brothers
Glasgow Caledonian University has been suffering more than most in recent months, with its principal, Stan Mason, fired for gross misconduct amid an ongoing funding council inquiry, and allegations...
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Smoked out
Alumni to be proud of Nos 146 and 147 have the power, not apparently granted to anyone in the world of higher education, of persuading the government to change its policy. Bernie Ecclestone, the...
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Howells defends corporate degrees
UNIVERSITIES will be left behind if they do not bow to market demand for "work-based degrees", lifelong learning minister Kim Howells has warned. The market for degrees is changing rapidly, and...
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Key skills are a capitalist issue
UNIVERSITIES will never be able to define and assess a set of "key skills" acceptable to industry, an Institute of Education report will warn later this month, writes Phil Baty. The report's author,...
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The spin-off and win game
Scottish universities are profiting handsomely by commercialising their research. Olga Wojtas reports. SCOTLAND'S higher education institutions earn more than Pounds 6.7 million a year from...
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Don't count your patents before they are hatched
CARELESS talk may no longer cost lives, but it can cost patents. Intellectual property is one of the key issues in commercialising research, but to patent an idea, it must not be in the public domain...
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Learning the basics to fit in
Employers at the Confederation of British Industry's conference have their say on graduate requirements Graduate employability appears to have risen to the top of the national agenda. The government...
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Tumours detected by metal
Chemistry is helping to find and fight cancer and make cleaner fuel THE LATEST in chemistry technology is being used to improve the detection of cancerous tumours in humans. For many years chemists...
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Fact file
* 62 per cent of part-time first year undergraduates in England are female * 60 per cent of part-time first year undergraduates in Scotland are female * 55 per cent of part-time first year...