Talks dangle bonus for good teaching
EXCELLENT teaching in universities is to receive its reward under a key funding council strategy discussed this week. Talks will take place over the next few months on how to allocate money to...
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Buildings in dire straits
WORLD-class higher education needs investment on the scale envisaged by Dearing, funding chief Brian Fender told delegates to his council's annual conference this week. "Universities and colleges can...
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Green among Bradford's recycled mills
Bradford is chipping away at the grimy veneer stubbornly clinging to its image to rebrand itself next week as one of the greenest and most progressive places in Britain. The Yorkshire city is...
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Hopes for derelict sites
YORK University archaeologists are seeking to persuade businesses to re-use thousands of derelict mills, warehouses, factories, naval dockyards and power stations dotted around the country. Their...
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Scramble for new docs
Hertfordshire University has become the latest institution without medical students to join the scramble for up to 1,000 new medical school places. Universities and National Health Service regional...
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Novelist's quest for science
Novelist Ian McEwan is to chair the panel of judges for this year's Rhone-Poulenc prize for science books. Mr McEwan is "a voracious reader of science", whose consumption of the genre has accelerated...
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Titanic heroism masked tragedy
AN Investigation into the sinking of the Titanic has revealed how the Edwardians turned the tragedy into a triumph within a few days of the event and the loss of 1,522 lives. Cultural historian...
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Cash-strapped museums turn to locals to champion cause
THE POWERFUL and vocal support mustered by London museums for extra public funding is having an adverse effect on regional museums whose plight is being largely ignored. In a letter to the Museums...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the record of a trip that helped lay the ground for a revolutionary theory: "...
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A flashy feast of loose change
Evolution
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Social security for kids
Adoption and the Care of Children
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Sticky-label success stories
Brand Warriors
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Welfare's great worker
William Beveridge
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Where Machiavelli spent his evenings
The Scholar in His Study
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Problems with Europe
America or Europe?