Council bypassed in Cambridge row
More than 70 academics at Cambridge University have rallied to usurp the governing council and try to end the dispute over "secretive and unfair" appointment procedures, writes Phil Baty. In an...
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Oxford trumpets science success
Oxford University has published a booklet to dispel its arts-bias image and highlight its science success. In the introduction, vice-chancellor Sir Colin Lucas, says: "Oxford is sometimes unfairly...
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Lottery awards to universities
The National Lottery has made awards worth Pounds 76 million to higher education projects. The THES lists winners to date, examines how grants have been won and looks at the overseas experience (In...
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Exhaust blow
(Photograph) - Exhaust blow: Cars fitted with catalytic converters to cut emissions of harmful gases may be polluting the environment with metals, say researchers from the University of Wales at...
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Wits chief puts heart in the city
AFRICA TWENTY-FIVE years ago, in a car travelling across the Pennines, two South African academics teaching in Manchester - one black, one white - swopped memories of childhood in the Eastern Cape....
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HEFCE offers cash to help costing
The Higher Education Funding Council for England will make grants of Pounds 15,000-Pounds 25,000 available to all higher education institutions in England over three years to improve costing...
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Criminal investigation into hate-mail
Police have opened a criminal investigation into a hate-mail campaign against six academics at Anglia Polytechnic University's business school. Five senior staff and one former member of staff, who...
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Science ministers to discuss Framework
European science ministers will meet in London next week to discuss management of the European Union's Framework programme of science research. The informal meeting comes as proposals for the Fifth...
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COSHEP elects Graham-Bryce convener
Ian Graham-Bryce, principal of Dundee University, has been elected convener of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals. He will succeed Richard Shaw, principal of Paisley University, on...
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Bath joins Swindon/Wiltshire project
The University of Bath and the University for Swindon and Wiltshire Project yesterday signed a formal partnership agreement. In September, full-time students will enrol on HND courses developed via...
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Colleges cough up Pounds 15m to help students
The "collapse" of local authority student support has forced colleges to find Pounds 15 million to help students, says an Association of Colleges survey. This year, more than 14 per cent of full-time...
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Acute lack of childcare for FE student parents
More than 25,000 student parents in further education need childcare places while more than 100 colleges offer no childcare facilities, a survey has found. The report, for FE Now magazine, says that...
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Scots reopen Odessa file
ST ANDREWS University's court is to review links with Odessa in Ukraine following a former student's allegations that she was raped on an exchange course in 1996. The woman is taking legal advice on...
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Widow wins asbestos pay-out
LONDON's Imperial College of Science and Technology has made an out-of-court settlement following the death of a former lecturer from asbestos-related mesothelioma. The claim was settled by the...
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Academy rests case
SOCIAL scientists will today move closer to having their own academy in line with the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Royal Academy of Engineering. If all goes to plan, the academy will be...