Scientists given 2 weeks to plan10-year vision
The government has given top scientists a two-week deadline to write a two-page summary of how science should develop over the next ten years. Sir David King, the government's chief scientific...
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'Third-stream' cash to nurture business links
Universities will be given a permanent "third stream" of funding, alongside teaching and research cash, to foster collaboration with business, the government confirmed this week in its preliminary...
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Next week
False starts Does the school system handicap universities? Also Toll of terror : How obesity, alcohol and smoking are linked to the war on terror. Picture this : Tom Rosenthal reviews books about the...
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Cash for gap-year volunteers
Gap-year students could benefit financially from a community service scheme. Gordon Brown, the chancellor, announced during the budget that the Treasury and Home Office were to consider whether...
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Long-term prospects
The government is investing £23 million to help young researchers move from short-term contracts to a permanent academic job. Under the Department of Trade and Industry's academic fellowship scheme,...
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Call to assess costs
Colleges north of the border continue to be unfairly funded because the Scottish Further Education Funding Council is dragging its feet in identifying course costs, the Scottish Parliament's audit...
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Columnist dies
Patrick Nuttgens, the first director of Leeds Polytechnic and a Times Higher columnist for much of the 1980s, died this week aged 74 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. An architect and...
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St Patrick's Day gift
Aberdeen University has won a $1.85 million (£1 million) endowment for its Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIIS), marking St Patrick's Day. The endowment from the American Ireland...
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Student largesse
Oxford University is set to receive the biggest benefaction to a UK university by a former student, allowing it to launch an Institute for Science and Civilisation. Computing pioneer James Martin has...
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Gong for geneticist
Sir Alec Jeffreys, Royal Society Wolfson research professor of genetics at Leicester University and pioneer of genetic fingerprinting, was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Pride of...
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Ministers to review teaching only plan
Ministers are reconsidering white-paper plans to create teaching-only universities after the proposals were rejected by existing universities on the grounds that they threaten the link between...
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Breaking research link will 'hamper' funding
Universities will find it harder to win extra state cash if the link between teaching and research is broken, academics will hear this week. Roger Brown, the principal of Southampton Institute, will...
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Funding hike tops inflation
Funding for teaching and research will rise by an inflation-beating 5.3 per cent in Scottish universities and colleges next year. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council hailed the increase as...
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Canada's 'positive action' offers role model for UK
Canadian scientist Elizabeth Cannon believes the UK can learn lessons from her country about improving opportunities for women. Professor Cannon, who has been touring the UK as part of an exchange...
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Equality drive reaps rewards
Loughborough University won a Royal Society award this week for bringing its equal-opportunities policies out of the "dark ages". The university was one of three institutions to win a Royal Society...