Soap star humbly resigns rectorship
Television star Ross Kemp, the student-elected rector of Glasgow University, has resigned four weeks after a no-confidence vote from the Students' Representative Council. Students questioned Mr Kemp'...
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Accountable body to oversee genetic data
* An independent body will be set up by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust to look after the proposed UK population genetic database. The move follows the first round of public...
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Royal Society presses for law on stem cells
The Royal Society has called for a change in the law to allow researchers to carry out human embryo research to develop stem cell therapies. Its call was condemned by the pressure group Campaign...
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Heinz has bean and gone as trophies top 58
The University of Warwick has become such a successful venue for conferences that it is having trouble finding a home for all the hospitality trophies it has won. Its latest award for "hospitality...
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Universitas 21 looks for a new partner
Universitas 21, a British company formed by 18 universities worldwide, is reported to be in negotiations with a major American corporation following the collapse of its partnership with Worldwide...
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Women beat men to work
Women are more likely than men to go into jobs from Scottish sub-degree courses, while men are more likely to go on to further study. Some 45 per cent of female diploma recipients take a job. But...
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No baths as York floods
York University was struggling to stay in operation this week following the worst flooding in the city for more than 400 years. Staff and students were being asked not to take baths and to keep loo-...
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Warsaw conclave backs liberal arts
Thirty-nine of Eastern Europe's leading universities and colleges have signed a declaration calling for greater recognition and support for liberal arts education in the region. The "declaration of...
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Hub of activity for start-ups
A network of enterprise hubs linked to local universities will soon be providing support to entrepreneurs and start-up businesses across southeast England. According to Anthony Dunnett, chief...
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Incubator aids Scottish firms
Peter Denyer, the Edinburgh University professor who founded the spin-off "camera-on-a-chip" Vision Company, has helped found another spin-off that aims to become the world's leading provider of...
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Small change for Italy online
The millennium year will be remembered as the period in which Italian universities took to online teaching with gusto. As the academic year began in Italy's 65-odd state universities, from the Alps...
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Net students beat classroom rivals
Online students at the University of Phoenix get better results than their counterparts who physically attend classes, according to its former president. Jorge Klor de Alva last month told the Fusion...
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Stylish launch for pilot scheme
Two Kingston University undergraduates have played a major part in developing a design — still a closely guarded industrial secret — that could make airborne travel more comfortable. Mandeep Jarnail...
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Ventures fail to show profit
The commercial arms of many of ߣߣÊÓƵ's universities are in serious financial trouble and, far from turning the intellectual property of their scholars into profits, they are losing millions of...
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Fertilise minds and end Europe's farming crisis
Farming and the countryside are in the mire, says Michael Alder. Can education dig them out? With declining farm incomes, escalating fuel costs, consumer confidence dented by the BSE affair and...