Wellcome southeast bias starts fierce row
Daresbury unions are up in arms about the likely siting of a new X-ray source in Oxfordshire. Kam Patel reports. The Wellcome Trust last week revealed its case for having the United Kingdom's new...
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Spring remedy for knee troubles
ߣߣÊÓƵn medics and engineers have devised an ingenious cruciate ligament replacement. Julia Hinde reports. A revolutionary design by Melbourne University engineers and doctors will take the pain...
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FE plans US-style degree
Further education colleges are joining forces with awarding bodies to present a case to the government for a new overarching FE qualification that could be a staging post into higher education or...
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AoC in external exam fee challenge
College leaders are calling for a fundamental review of "unaccountable" charges by exam boards, warning that spiralling exam and assessment costs could scupper the reform of A levels. The Association...
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Open invitation to millennium mind party
French academe is planning its own special year 2000 celebration - a massive teach-in for the the universe that will continue every single day throughout the year. L'Universite de Tous les Savoirs...
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Pounds 60 million is the business for campus initiative
More than Pounds 60 million of grants have been awarded to English universities and colleges in a government initiative to promote stronger links between higher education and business. Eighty-five...
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Pounds 20 million for Leeds ideas
Finance giant the Forward Group yesterday announced the creation of a Pounds 20 million fund to help Leeds University academics commercialise new ideas. The deal, likely to be the envy of the sector...
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Universities are 'incubators' of the future
Incubation of new small businesses by universities will be at the heart of entrepreneurial Britain in the 21st century, Patricia Hewitt, minister for small business, said this week. Speaking at the...
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IT news in brief
The Occupational Standards Council for Engineering has made its revised occupational standards for higher levels available on its new website. The website has links to other key sites. www.osceng.co....
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Why I...believe decommissioning means more than merely handing in weapons in Northern Ireland
Peter Shirlow lectures in the school of environmental studies at the University of Ulster. Mapping the Spaces of Fear in North Belfast, the first phase of an ESRC research project, was published this...
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Investors seek ethical pension
Shareholders in the old universities' main pension scheme are expected to agree new ethical investment policies when they meet for their annual general meeting next week. The Universities...
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Plan for livery company
A group of educationists have applied to the Corporation of London for the right to set up an education livery company. "Livery companies are not just dining clubs for the rich," said Keith Lawrey,...
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A year of deficits forecast
Nearly a third of universities predict they will be running on a "continuing deficit" next year, despite some making "optimistic" assumptions about their income, funding council chiefs have revealed...
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Call out
(Photograph) - One of about 15,000 students who took part in a march through London to protest against student hardship and tuition fees. The National Union of Students' National March for Education...
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How did you perform?
http:///www.niss.ac.uk/education/hefce/pub99/99_66.html Tools for improvement or a stick to beat universities with? Alison Goddard, Alan Thomson and Olga Wojtas report on the sector's first ever...