Wellcome guards its property
The Wellcome Trust plans to set up a technology transfer company to exploit intellectual property rights associated with research work it backs in universities. The idea was floated by the Wellcome...
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Forward into Battle over science funding policy
The Government's science policy is devoid of long-term thinking, lacking coordination between Government departments and has resulted in real terms reductions in funding, according to John Battle,...
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Union chief predicts recruitment crisis . . .
Old universities are likely to face a major recruitment crisis in the next four years because of a retirement bulge and poor academic pay, Peter Breeze, president of the Association of University...
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Ministers toy with private loans idea
The Government is considering piloting a privately-backed student loans scheme for postgraduates, which could eventually replace the current loans system. Ministers were this week examining the...
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Handsworth hits back at inspectors
Britain's most extensive college franchise operation has been heavily criticised by the Further Education Funding Council. But Handsworth College in Birmingham has hit back saying the inspection of...
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Role of women in the third world
(Photograph) - They borrow, they save, they invest and repay, they create wealth as well as families. Yet the role of women in the third world has been largely ignored by mainstream economics. Partha...
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Party-less but singing at Queen's
Under the heading "Anthem row rumbles on" (THES, May 5) I found to my surprise that I was, "in fact" a member of the "middle-of-the road Alliance Party". I am quite sure that the Alliance party...
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All you need is love
Claire Sanders reports on some blunt advice from Europe, particularly the Netherlands. As the assessors from the funding council and the auditors from the quality council poke and probe their way...
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Shephard raid that went wrong
I recently heard Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, on the BBC World Service attempting to justify a reduction of school funding and the resulting deterioration of the teacher/pupil...
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Build on expertise of bodies
It is to be hoped that the subtle and sensitive negotiations aiming to streamline the national approach to quality assurance are concluded quickly, and in such a way as to minimise the expenditure of...
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Students set their pace on funding policy
May Day saw the NUS release details of its latest student hardship survey. The survey found that one in three students actually miss meals because of hardship; one in four consider dropping out...
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Students set their pace on funding policy
I was dismayed to read your front-page story "Follow my Labour" (THES, May 5). Not only are issues in the article confused, I am inclined to believe that the text was conveniently put together to fit...
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Pet theories in the lab
To begin to "prove" his radical ideas, one wonders if Rupert Sheldrake ("Dogmas and pet theories", THES, May 5) made a bid for an experiment in the recent series of experiments performed in the "...
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Neglected and patronised
The celebration of adult learners' week next week, and VE Day this week, are well-timed. The generation that fought the Second World War and then voted in a Labour government and a welfare state are...
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The four beneficiaries who must pay
Funding is at the heart of the debate on the future of higher education. Lecturer's leader David Triesman, is right to say that new sources of funding have to be found to enable the system to expand...