'£200m to end fee deadlock'
Just over £200 million could end the deadlock between government and universities over who pays for top-up fee bursaries for students from poor homes, vice-chancellors said this week. They argued...
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V-cs rebuff plan to delay term start for PQA
Universities have rejected government suggestions that they delay the start of the academic year to accommodate a new student admissions system. Vice-chancellors are unhappy with government proposals...
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Students reject St Hilda's head
Students at Oxford's last remaining women-only college this week passed a vote of no confidence in their principal, Lady Judith English. Junior Common Room vice-president Lucy Meakin said...
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'Do not bank on spin-off income'
Government and universities are wrong to bank on private research being a significant source of income, the head of one of the world's leading technology-transfer offices said this week, writes...
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In the news: Frances Cairncross
The new head of Exeter College, Oxford, likes a wintry dawn dip in Highgate Ladies' Pond and has long been an advocate of legalising all drugs. A mixed blessing for the student body then. Frances...
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Appointments
* Diana Liverman, former director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, has been appointed director of the Environmental Change Institute and professor of...
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Academic pay could link to NHS scales
The issue of linking academic pay to the National Health Service was raised this week as part of a discussion on a shake-up of career structures for nursing academics. The Department of Health's...
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Aston finds fat-buster clue
Aston University researchers are seeking industrial partners to develop an anti-obesity drug that exploits a fat-burning process that affects cancer patients. Weight loss is triggered by a protein,...
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Society to seek rejig of funding
The Royal Society is expected next week to call for a radical rethink of how research is funded, with serious implications for the dual-support system and the research assessment exercise. Royal...
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Blair backs UK biotechnology
Prime minister Tony Blair this week reassured UK scientists that he fully supports biotechnology after academics wrote to him complaining that genetic modification research was under threat. Mr Blair...
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Minister told to act over science threat
MPs this week accused science minister Lord Sainsbury of being "astonishingly laid-back" about the threat of closure hanging over many university physical science departments. The House of Commons...
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UK ahead of rivals in technology transfer
UK university technology transfer is in robust shape despite the global economic downturn and a fall in the number of spin-off companies from British universities, according to a comprehensive survey...
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What's up and what's down
* A total of 561 full-time staff worked on technology-transfer activity at UK universities in 2002, an average of six per institution * A total of 158 spin-offs were created in 2002 * Fifty spin-offs...
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Spin-offs are only part of the story of industry links
Exeter University In the late 1980s, Exeter University had a lucrative royalty deal for an anti-cancer drug with a pharmaceutical company. The income was shared between the inventors and...
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London v-c banks on alliance to fill coffers
The capital's colleges may club together to win even more research cash by creating joint centres of excellence under plans being devised by London University's new vice-chancellor, Sir Graeme Davies...