NHS framework a 'burden' on charities
The Association of Medical Research Charities has warned that the new National Health Service Research Governance Framework places too many burdens on charities. The framework expects funders to...
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Universities seek applicants on 'salacious' teen website
Universities are advertising on an internet site that contains topless images of under 18-year-olds, writes Phil Baty. Several universities, including Hertfordshire, Thames Valley and City, have...
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Admissions staff race to avoid delays
Admissions officers are facing a weekend scramble to avoid delays in clearing as they grapple with new complexities in the compilation of results. Tony Higgins, chief executive of the Universities...
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Postgraduates call for better social life
* Universities must consider nurturing their "cash cow" of postgraduate students by helping to improve their social life and giving them their own accommodation. The National Postgraduate Committee...
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Niamey
Two student leaders at the University of Niger, held for allegedly killing a police officer during student protests in February 2001, have gone on indefinite hunger strike to secure either their...
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Nsukka
The University of Nigeria Nsukka is to reopen on September 3 after closing in mid-June when at least 20 people died in warring between rival cults on campus. Student cult members will be expelled.
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Hong Kong
The British Council's IELTS English testing system has been officially adopted by the University Grants Committee as the standard English proficiency test for graduating students.
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British Library staff hold strike over pay
British Library staff are staging a second strike this week, with 100 staff taking action at the Boston Spa Document Supply Centre. The 48-hour walkout by Public and Commercial Services Union staff...
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Rare beetles relocated on campus site
Three rare species of invertebrate have been discovered on the site of a new building at the University of Lincoln's Brayford Pool campus. The insects, which include rare beetles Bruchela rufipes ,...
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Essex to capitalise on success of Silicon Fen
Essex University is to create a 16-hectare high-tech research park at its Colchester headquarters in a bid to make more out of its intellectual property. The university has signed a ten-year deal...
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Borrowers could cash in on loan work
Need cash to pay off your student loan? Then why not work for the Student Loans Company chasing up other borrowers who are in arrears? The SLC is seeking applications by August 16 for part-time...
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Cambridge tops funding table
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's annual report for 2001-02, published this week, showed that Cambridge University secured the most research funding. Across all universities,...
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Wales brings colleges into the fold
The University of Wales has invited five institutions to join it as federal members and has agreed to upgrade the status of two others following a debate about its future, writes Tony Tysome. The...
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OU to slim as cost of greater access bites
The Open University is set to shed more than 200 staff and may cut contact with students further in a bid to prevent a financial crisis caused partly by its expensive efforts to widen participation....
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by an Old Etonian down on his luck: "The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning." The...