Two eyes on the sky
Observatories and jobs were sacrificed to build twin giant telescopes, but was it all worth it? asks Alison Goddard In coming days the first of two giant telescopes will open its eye on the heavens....
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Higher channels
John Davies focuses on radio and television programmes likely to be of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Archaeology is doing well: last week both BBC2 and Channel 4...
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Mission: conserve highfliers
Time is running out for rare Himalayan butterflies, says David Spencer Smith The world's greatest concentration of high mountains lies within the Karakoram range in western Himalaya. It is an arid...
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New College, new milestone
Hermione Lee has notched up a double first for women at Oxford. Elaine Williams reports on the Virginia Woolf biographer's move In her biography of the novelist Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee admits...
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Koestler bust removed
Complaints from female students at Edinburgh University have led to the removal of a bronze bust of writer and philosopher Arthur Koestler. The students became uneasy after learning that Koestler had...
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Power players for the regions
Phil Baty looks at who has made it on to the RDA boards Five vice-chancellors and two college principals are among the 117 board members of the nine new regional development agencies. Ministers, who...
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Belgrade
Belgrade University's philology faculty has temporarily reinstated academics suspended for refusing to sign "loyalty" contracts under the new Higher Education Act.
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Pounds 10,000 for chemistry extravaganza
Salford University's department of chemistry has won Pounds 10,000 from the Millennium Awards Scheme for a chemistry extravaganza to attract more than 2,000 secondary pupils by involving them in a...
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V-cs impede colleges' bid for extra cash
Further education college heads have accused university vice-chancellors of hampering their bids for new higher education money. They claim that higher education funding chiefs are handicapping...
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Fifth Framework budgets approved
The breakdown of funds for the European Union's multibillion pound Fifth Framework research programme - due to kick off in February - has been agreed at a meeting of European research ministers. They...
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Woodhead limit 'will undermine research'
The push by the chief inspector of schools to limit educational research to work of direct relevance to teacher training and government policy threatens to undermine the development of new...
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OU bids twice for new medical students
Universities keen to cash in on the biggest expansion in medical education since the 1960s must this week confirm their intention to bid for 1,000 extra places. Among the bidders will be the Open...
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Business is fun for Scottish universities
Scotland's universities will create nearly 300 new spin-out companies over ten years, exceeding the 150 target set by Technology Ventures in 1996, according to the second Technology Ventures annual...
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Joined-up Scots start work
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council is born today, sharing premises, staff and some members with the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. And one office will be shared by Chris...
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It's only natural for computers to network
The National Union of Students has written to the chief executive of the Student Loans Company, Colin Ward, demanding improved administration of loan applications. NUS president Andrew Pakes claims...