TV & radio guide - Saturday
The Medieval Ball (2.30 R4). Terry Jones (ex-Monty Python Chaucer enthusiast) begins a four-part series examining how the medieval world saw itself through its maps, with Hereford Cathedral’s Mappa...
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V-c departure angers staff
Staff at the University of Northumbria say their vice-chancellor has destabilised the institution by announcing that he will be leaving next year, following a clash with his board of governors....
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Peer finds way to modify man
Powerful techniques to create transgenic animals and humans and to isolate stem cells from their tissue have been patented by Lord Winston, the Labour peer and Imperial College scientist. The new...
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Hefce risks run-in over board
Funding chiefs risk the wrath of the government after last week's appointment of three white men to the board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. By April 2003, women should form 45...
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Exit CVCP, enter Universities UK
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals relaunched itself this week as Universities UK as part of a corporate strategy to raise the profile of higher education. Several projects have been...
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Alexander delights v-cs by reducing top slicing
Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has ordered the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to reduce its level of top slicing, delighting vice-chancellors....
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Bournemouth's Tillman takes Turner treasure
The Bournemouth Arts Institute this week celebrated Wolfgang Tillmans's success in winning the £20,000 Turner prize. Mr Tillmans studied photography at the institute between 1990 and 1992. The judges...
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OU launches postgrad research school
The Open University today launched a research school to provide training for its postgraduate students, postdoctoral and research staff. Project staff and financial management training will be...
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Commemorative chair for diabetes pioneer
A chair in diabetic medicine at Oxford University has been created to commemorate Robert Turner, a pioneering diabetes researcher who died suddenly in August last year.
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£20m Sunderland centre awaits go-ahead
The first stage of a £20 million centre of excellence at the University of Sunderland is expected to be given the go-ahead next month. The university has submitted plans to the city council for...
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OECD abolishes lethal animal toxicity test
Use of the much-criticised LD50 Draize oral toxicity test, which involves the death of laboratory animals, has been abolished by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD's...
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Council announces ageing initiative
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has announced a £5 million initiative - Experimental Research on Ageing - to build on the Science of Ageing programme. This will draw on...
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Heriot-Watt extends Malaysian cyber link
Heriot-Watt University is expanding its commercial online activity in Malaysia. It has agreed to provide online study material to the Malaysian Open University. Its maths, physics, chemistry, biology...
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Journal editors plan national network
Editors of 25 education journals met in Birmingham this week to discuss forming a national network that will help keep editorial boards abreast of the latest research news and share ideas on...
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FEFC tells Shena Simon to refocus or merge
Shena Simon College in Manchester has been ordered by funding chiefs to refocus and expand its work, or merge with another further education college. The recommendations, contained in a Further...