Oxford engineering plc spins off yet again
The department of engineering science at the university of Oxford has announced its fifth spin-off company in 12 months. Oxford BioSignals will develop signal processing. The department has also...
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Work, but watch your hours, says Boswell
(Photograph) - Undergraduates should be encouraged to have part-time jobs but limits should be placed on excessive hours, according to shadow education minister Tim Boswell (pictured) Mr Boswell, who...
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Faraday Partnership centres announced
Four new centres of academe-industry collaboration, part of the Faraday Partnerships initiative, backed by almost Pounds 9 million from the government, were announced on Wednesday. They are: * The...
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Invite to have your say at the CVCP
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has invited submissions to its review of higher education funding. Lecturers, parents and schools are among those invited to comment. The funding...
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No surprises in employment study
Employment and study patterns of students remain unchanged on last year, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Hesa's destination survey found 69 per cent in employment, 21 per cent in...
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Unions accept 3.3 per cent pay offer
All six college unions have accepted the 3.3 per cent pay offer. The six, which include lecturers' union Natfhe, the Association of College Managers, Unison and the T&G have agreed with the...
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Academy caters for medium projects
The British Academy has launched a Larger Research Grant Scheme, worth Pounds 500,000, for medium-sized pilot projects and field studies in the humanities and social sciences. Academics will be able...
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Scientists take trip down memory lane
Neuroscientists at Edinburgh University believe they have discovered the molecular machine that is central to learning. Evidence suggests that when we learn, the connections between two nerve cells...
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Cranfield top investor in IT
Cranfield University spends more than ten times as much per student on IT than the lowest spender, the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. Six institutions spend less than Pounds 55 per...
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Children need hard sell to go to college
Universities should consider promoting higher education to young teenagers and even primary school children in their bid to widen participation, MPs heard this week, writes Alan Thomson. Academics,...
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Posterity plaques
(Photograph) - Posterity plaques: Edinburgh University's principal, Sir Stewart Sutherland, displays the first in a series of millennial plaques commemorating the achievements of university staff,...
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V-cs make last bid for cash
Vice-chancellors made an eleventh-hour plea to chancellor Gordon Brown this week for more cash as the Treasury finalised its spending review. Labour peer Diana Warwick, chief executive of the...
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Degree titles to be overhauled
Hundreds of higher education qualifications are expected to be scrapped, renamed or restructured under a strict new framework governing the level and nomenclature of higher education awards. The...
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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 modest Swiss autobiographer: " I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent, and which,...
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No Marx for young Mosley
Dumbing Down - The Idea of Culture