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...
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Bondi beached
The Institute of Physics needs opinionated scientists, preferably in the Brighton area, and not necessarily physicists. You are wanteed at 2pm on March 17 for a debate forming part of the IoP's...
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Quality home
The Quality Assurance Agency has finally found a new headquarters. After months of hunting around the environs of Longdon, Gloucestershire home of QAA chief executive John Randall, the agency has...
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Nutty but NEAT
Computer rage and technofear may be trends of the 1990s, but researchers at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth are finding that their effects can still be outweighed by a more traditional complaint...
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Mission briefing
Alumnus to be proud of No 159 may be about to jet to Bagdhad in a bid to prevent bombs falling on the handiwork of the British university graduates implicated in Saddam Hussein's biochemical weapons...
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Plymouth pioneers satellite surgery
MASTER surgeons could soon oversee operations via satellite using technology being developed at Plymouth University. A Pounds 25,000 pilot scheme will start early next month linking the university...
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Scotland pilots campus link-up
All of Scotland's main college and university sites have been linked by a videoconferencing network - the largest of its kind in the world. The pioneering system will link lecturers and students...
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Teaching offers path to promotion
Universities as diverse as Durham and Nottingham Trent are devising new methods of promoting academics on the basis of their teaching records. Phil Knott, a law professor at Nottingham Trent...
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Gwent troubled
Labour MP Llew Smith has called for the board of Gwent Tertiary College to be sacked over alleged mishandling of European Social Fund grants. The college could be forced to pay back Pounds 1 million...
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Franchises panned
MPs attacked the quality and value of franchised further education at an evidence session for the select committee inquiry into further education funding this week. Committee chair, Labour MP...
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Inspectors' first sting
North Area College has become the first casualty of the Further Education Funding Council's new inspection regime, which allows more self-assessment. The Manchester sixth-form college was found to...
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Place at the table
It would be "unacceptable" if further education were not properly represented on each of the nine new regional development agencies, the Further Education Funding Council has told the government in...