Growth in UK fees income
Income from tuition fees in UK higher education institutions rose by more than a quarter between 1996-97 and last year. Income from all fees, including those paid by home, European Union and overseas...
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Tissue-engineering technique wins prize
A tissue-engineering technique that could lead to the mass production of artificially grown organs has won a top medical innovation award. Scientists at University College London have developed a...
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Today's news
Strain of AS level blamed for fall in maths Applications for university courses in maths and computing have slumped, while more students want to study history and medicine, official figures from the...
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Mars Express has the sophisticated science to find the water ice on Mars
Paris, 30 May 2002 "The presence of such a large amount of water ice under Mars's surface is very surprising. Especially so close to the surface!" says Gerhard Schwehm, Head of the Planetary Missions...
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Satellite mapping tools prove invaluable to Médecins Sans Frontières
Paris, 30 May 2002 The Brussels section of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the aid organisation active in more than 80 countries, is at the forefront of international aid groups using satellite...
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Warburg Institute Library awarded $1m
The Warburg Institute Library, part of London University's School of Advanced Study, has received the first $1 million (£684,000) award from the new Dan David Prize. The library was recognised for...
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Collaboration enables online experiments
Students are carrying out experiments using an expensive piece of chemical engineering equipment via the web, thanks to collaboration between scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Leicester fuels fever with World Cup website
Soccer experts at Leicester University have compiled a web resource on the World Cup that provides facts and figures on almost every aspect of the tournament. Researchers at the Sir Norman Chester...
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Correction
Sussex University has asked us to point out that its strategic review, currently under way, is not focused on cutting jobs and that there is no target number for job losses, contrary to a report in...
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Radical plans for overhaul of funding
MPs will offer the government stark choices on student funding, with higher tuition fees, a steeper interest rate on loans and graduate contributions among the likely options. Barry Sheerman,...
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Education rejuvenated in rejig
Young blood was transfused into the education department this week with the appointment of former student leader Stephen Twigg and ex-policy adviser David Miliband. Mr Twigg, 35, a former president...
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Peer review backs Daresbury's bid to secure its future
Daresbury Laboratory's bid to secure its future by building a world-leading light source has received a crucial vote of approval. After successful peer review, the chief executives of the research...
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Anger at Salford over job losses
Lecturers at Salford University are threatening to withhold exam results after it emerged this week that compulsory redundancies are being considered to ensure that 70 jobs are axed by September. A...
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Bristol University is to reorganise its six academic faculties
* Bristol University is to reorganise its six academic faculties, writes Caroline Davis. The arts, engineering and science faculties will remain unchanged but medicine will be split into medical...
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Answer to avoiding brain damage may be in the air all around us
Scientists have found that a rare component of air could prevent some of the most common forms of brain damage. The protective powers of xenon were revealed by Mervyn Maze, professor of anaesthetics...