MPs bite back over genetics watchdog
The Government has decided to review its decision not to set up a human genetics commission following an angry outcry from MPs who originally proposed the body. The idea of a commission came from the...
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Pass the Prozac, I've writer's block
The suffering writers undergo for their art may be unnecessary as writers on Prozac can be just as creative, the author of a new study claims. Felix Post, emeritus physician at the Bethlem Royal...
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Alarm at lecturer stand-ins
Research students are teaching first-year undergraduates in many universities when less than a third of them have received training, according to a union survey to be published in July. The findings...
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Alarm at lecturer stand-ins
Academics are receiving more and better training to help them cope with the demands of their jobs, a national survey coming out later this month has found, writes Tony Tysome. But there are growing...
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Post-16 future in hands of FE, says Melville
The divisions separating further and higher education are set to fade away in favour of a more universal post-16 education sector, according to David Melville, soon to leave his post as vice...
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Peterborough power bid
Peterborough will be the next British city to set up its own higher education institution. Plans for University College, Peterborough which will be run by an as-yet unnamed Midlands university will...
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Plan to save Cambridge's lucky strike
A last-minute deal may be struck next week between Cambridge University and BAT Industries to save a Pounds 1.6 million donation from the tobacco giant to fund a professorship. The university's...
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Natfhe urges pay review
Falling salary levels for teachers in further education colleges could prompt an exodus of qualified lecturers according to lecturers union Natfhe which published a pay survey this week, writes...
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Welsh protect poorest
A standard unit of funding and tight controls on funded growth have been introduced in Welsh further education to save some colleges from financial collapse. The Further Education Funding Council for...
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Highland hope rises
The University of the Highlands and Islands project has cleared another hurdle in its bid for Millennium Commission funding, with an external consultant this week embarking on a detailed appraisal of...
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New technology
Sir Graham Hills, academic adviser to the Highlands project and former principal of Strathclyde University, says new technology could underpin a university in Dumfries in the south-west of Scotland....
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Loans assent
The Student Loans Bill, which allows private lenders to receive Government subsidies to offer student loans, received Royal Assent this week. The Government hopes the first private loans will be...
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Cutting letter
Staff and students at the University of Wales, Cardiff, have written to Welsh MPs expressing "serious concern" over funding cuts in higher education. In a letter signed by vice chancellor Brian Smith...
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Gas windfall
A firm specialising in gas sensor technology set up by two academics in the late 1970s is set to make them multi-millionaires when it is floated on the Stock Exchange in June with a valuation of...
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Sotheby's degree
Sotheby's, which last week made a mint staging the sale of Jackie Kennedy Onassis's jewellery, is set to profit again when it offers a degree course in fine and decorative art. The BA degree, to be...