UCL students speak for UK in Berlin summit
Ten students from University College London will represent Britain at a summit in Berlin on youth and democracy in the European Union. The summit, which starts at the Freie Universitat Berlin on...
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Old guard in CVCP faces poll challenge
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals may have its first president from a post-1992 university. Roderick Floud, provost of London Guildhall University, is one of two candidates standing in...
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Motion for foetal cell research bill beaten
A controversial bill to extend the research uses of human foetal cells was rejected by Parliament this week, writes Alan Thomson. Liberal Democrat higher education and science spokesman Evan Harris,...
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Anti-begging plan comes under fire
A group of almost 60 social policy experts has criticised as "fundamentally misguided" a government campaign telling people not to give money to beggars. The open letter to the...
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Cambridge plans arts centre
Cambridge University is mounting an ambitious challenge to Oxford University's superiority in the arts and humanities. As the traditionally arts-dominated Oxford begins to challenge Cambridge's...
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Catholic fears at Glasgow
The head of the Catholic church in Scotland met senior Glasgow University staff last week to discuss concerns that the university's education faculty was not meeting the church's needs. Talks between...
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Following that Whitehall herd instinct
How culpable were scientists in the BSE fiasco? Steve Farrar and Caroline Davis dissect the Phillips report Close to the beginning of the BSE inquiry's 4,000-page report, it is noted: "At the heart...
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No victimisation?
Radiologist Peter Dawson was not victimised by his managers at Imperial College, London for raising the alarm about risks to patients and accounting inadequacies at Hammersmith Hospital. This is the...
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From today's UK press
FINANCIAL TIMES All new teachers at further education colleges will have to have a formal teaching qualification, the government has said THE GUARDIAN The government is seeking to speed up the...
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European business school 'beat US'
American business schools are out of touch and are being overtaken by their European counterparts when it comes to teaching management. This was the message from Leo Murray, director of Cranfield...
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Twist in Chaucer tale
Chaucer may have supervised parts of the making of one of the earliest manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales, researchers have discovered. Evidence in a digital facsimile of the "Hengwrt...
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King Alfred's College rethinks university aim
The new principal of King Alfred's College in Winchester has dropped plans for the college to become a university by 2006. Paul Light believes the target date set by his predecessor, John Dickinson,...
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Old oaks point to root of global warming
Oak trees near the queen's estate at Sandringham will assist Swansea University's geography department in investigating global warming. The department has received Pounds 34,000 from the Leverhulme...
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Scottish cities engage in age-old quarrel
The traditional rivalry between Edinburgh and Glasgow has taken a sombre turn with Glasgow University researchers' discovery that Glaswegians have a lower life expectancy than inhabitants of the...
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V-cs seek to identify ethnic bars in NHS
Vice-chancellors have launched a research project to help diversify the ethnic make-up of National Health Service staff. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals will commission research into...