Flood of applicants for new EU funding
The European Commission has taken advantage of the recent approval of the terms of the Sixth Framework Programme by announcing that it has had about 12,000 expressions of interest for funding from...
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Imperial spin-off wins competition
A spin-off company from Imperial College London, has won equipment worth €30,000 (£19,000) in a pan-European Hewlett Packard new-ventures competition. PhotoBiotics Ltd beat 20 entrants from 11...
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£400,000 to develop social-work degree
The Department of Health has announced an extra £400,000 for the design and development of the new social-work degree, to be introduced over two years from September 2003. Health minister Jacqui...
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Stirling recruits staff on back of RAE boost
Stirling University is today advertising 11 posts in The THES totalling more than £360,000 a year, following its success in the research assessment exercise. Christine Hallett, deputy principal for...
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Whodunnit house set up on campus
The University of Teesside has converted a large terraced building on the campus into a "crime house". Inside the rabbit warren of 16 rooms will be hidden clues to simulated criminal acts of every...
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Crusty dons should be more modern
Academics should spin themselves as vibrant rather than crusty, a seminar will hear next week. Peter Scott, vice-chancellor of Kingston University, will speak at the first of a series of seminars...
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Air travel adds to global warming
A scientist has warned that air travel is having a major impact on global warming. Tim O'Riordan, a member of the UK sustainable development commission from the Zuckerman Institute for connective...
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Students help school pupils to aspire
Undergraduate and postgraduate students from the University of Bradford will go back to school next week as part of a new mentoring project with Salts Grammar School in Bradford. The project is...
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Scots backing for comprehensive schools
Scots back the country's current system of comprehensive education, according to researchers at Edinburgh University's Moray House school of education. The researchers gave the results of a Scottish...
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Proteomics chemists scoop Nobel prize
Three chemists whose work helped establish the field of proteomics have won the Nobel for chemistry. The prize was shared by John Fenn (Virginia Commonwealth University, US), Koichi Tanaka (Shimadzu...
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Universities add 10,000 in recruitment drive
Universities have taken an extra 10,000 undergraduates this year compared with 2001. But "final" statistics from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service are provisional because of the A-...
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Mobile games on train to be made faster
The University of Abertay Dundee is answering the call to make mobile phone games faster because of fears that Europe is falling behind the US and Japan. Abertay is part of a consortium of computer...
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'Threats' sour King's site sale
King's College London has sold its "block nine" site opposite the Houses of Parliament to St Thomas's Hospital for £10 million - despite a campaign that it viewed as blackmail, writes Alison Goddard...
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State pupil targets spark row
Universities hit back this week at critics of their plans to take more state school pupils at the expense of those from independent schools. Under instructions from the funding council, universities...
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Welsh put merger option on the table
The University of Wales Bangor and North East Wales Institute of Higher Education may merge to create a University of North Wales. Merger would be the more radical of two options to be explored in...