Kick-off for clinic
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has returned to his native Glasgow to open the Hampden National Stadium Sports Health and Injury Clinic, a partnership involving the Scottish Football...
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Good guidance contract
Nottingham Trent University's Centre for Guidance Studies has been awarded a contract to provide strategic advice to Careers Scotland, the largest single careers' guidance service in Europe. The...
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Wales gets cash boost
Welsh higher education is to get an £8 million funding boost next year to help "reconfigure" the sector through mergers and strategic partnerships, and widen participation, Welsh Assembly education...
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Subject matters
The government's 14-19 education strategy may fail unless it urgently addresses the issue of giving children impartial advice about which subjects they should take at 14 and where to study, says the...
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Widen study, says AoC
College heads have backed suggestions made in an Ofsted report that universities are not doing enough to encourage a broader curriculum in schools and further education. The Association of Colleges...
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Clarke and Hewitt come under attack from MPs over research funding move
Education secretary Charles Clarke and trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt came under fire from MPs this week over the government's research and science policy. Appearing before the Commons...
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Next week
Access regulator The government's plans The road ahead Lord Desai suggests ways to reform the UN Free and uneasy Michael Rutter grapples with Freedom Evolves , Daniel Dennett's study of free will....
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Defence medicine centre set for action
The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at Birmingham University is not yet two years old, but its staff are already facing their first war. Described as the "home of tomorrow's military professorial...
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Anti-war mood may break Labour hold
A wave of anti-war feeling could help the far left break the 20-year Labour Party dominance of the National Union of Students in next Tuesday's elections for NUS president. There are seven candidates...
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Student scramble for new appeals system
Universities Scotland has launched a groundbreaking complaints review, with students who feel that they have been unfairly treated by their institution queuing up to use it. Leading QC Colin MacAulay...
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Queen's argues case for top-up income to maintain quality
Queen's University Belfast has hit back at criticism that only per cent of its students come from working-class backgrounds, saying it needed the income from top-up fees to maintain its level of...
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Fear silenced grant protests
Caroline Davis reports on criticism of Medical Research Council grant process A climate of fear prevented top-rated UK medical researchers speaking out about the way the Medical Research Council...
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Wellcome awards £40m for innovation
The Wellcome Trust announced new technology transfer awards worth £40 million this week, with some of the funding going directly to universities, writes Anna Fazackerley. The investment coincides...
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Research gets own TV show
Five universities have joined together to air their research on television screens across the world. The pilot "Research TV" project, instigated by the University of Warwick, consists of eight weekly...
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TV dramas foil legal ambitions
The image of slick US lawyers in television dramas is discouraging school-leavers from considering studying law at university, research commissioned by the Scottish Executive has found. Scottish...