Warwick in telecoms degree link-up
Warwick University is launching a five-year telecommunications degree for 16-year-olds with Marconi, the communications technology group, in an attempt to create a ready supply of suitably trained...
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Have we got newts for you
(Photograph) - Have we got newts for you: students from the department of land-based studies at Nottingham Trent University are restoring a pond that is the natural habitat of a colony of great...
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Staff joy as duo exit
Staff at East Yorkshire College are rejoicing at the departure of a management duo - principal, David Brewer, who is on "gardening leave", and the college's executive director, Malcolm Dunwell, who...
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Union wants post-92 blood on Hefce board
Union leaders in the new universities have called for more post-92 members on the board of the English funding council. In a letter to education secretary David Blunkett, university and college...
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Sony sponsors course in computer games
Salford University is offering a three-year degree in computer and video games, sponsored by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and the European Leisure Software Publishers' Association. Students...
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FE college students get Pounds 3m
Extra financial support for further education students is to nearly double to a total Pounds 92 million next year. The money, made up of an Pounds 88 million Department for Education and Employment...
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CVCP dismayed at rumours of spending cuts
The prospect that the government is considering cuts in university core funding drew a dismayed warning from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals on Wednesday. Representatives told the...
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Privateers on parade in Lords
Universities are in such crisis that the elite should consider opting out of the public sector, Kenneth Baker this week told a crowded debate on the state of higher education in the House of Lords. "...
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Call for debate on gene ethics
The imminent completion of a first draft of the human genome heralds benefits for only a minority of the world, a newly formed scientific watchdog has warned. The Campaign Against Human Genetic...
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Fees free-for-all
Protagonists for top-up fees will lock heads with representatives of lecturers and students at the University of Nottingham today. Vice-chancellor Sir Colin Campbell and pro vice-chancellor David...
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Fairweather friend
Rain will not stop play at this year's Olympic Games, thanks to scientists from Salford University who will be working with meteorologists from around the world to track the weather during the...
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Durham students get billed 5p a page
Some 500 students at the University of Durham protested this week against increases in course costs that will continue to hit those from poorer families hardest. Whereas tuition fees are means-tested...
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Scots get Pounds 2 million social inclusion fund
More than 1,000 additional Scots from under-represented groups will win higher education places in the coming academic year, thanks to a Pounds 2 million investment package from the Scottish Higher...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland has committed Pounds 100,000 to the Lothian Equal Access Programme for Schools (Leaps) summer school, which supports senior pupils who are unlikely to enter higher...
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Excited exchequer
I read through the story accompanying your front-page headline "Labour MPs turn on the chancellor" (THES, June 9), but was unable to discover precisely which of his colleagues Gordon Brown finds so...