Sutherland training idea vetoed
The government has rejected the Dearing report's recommendation that a new national committee of inquiry should be set up to examine teacher training in higher education. Sir Stewart Sutherland...
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Performance tables for teacher training institutions
The government announced last week that performance tables for teacher training institutions would be published from July 1998. Ms Russell said that UCET would accept publication, but only if the...
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Alarm at control by consortia
What is the future of nursing education as more school-leavers attend university? Julia Hinde reports The provision of nursing degrees should be planned centrally and not at a local level, say...
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AUT rejects arbitrator's Pickering recommendation
The Association of University Teachers has rejected the recommendation of an independent arbitrator that it should pay Pounds 18,000 compensation to a member who alleges he was inadequately...
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Queen of Quorn probes novel foods
BIOTECHNOLOGIST Janet Bainbridge is an authority on, among other things, Quorn. This unusual expertise is about to come in to its own as food minister Jeff Rooker has just asked her to chair the...
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Will White Rose blossom?
THREE rival universities in Yorkshire have joined forces to exploit blue skies biotechnology research worth Pounds 40 million annually. The White Rose Biotechnology Consortium has been formed by the...
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Phantom plans help young scientists profit
THE BIOTECHNOLOGY and Biological Sciences Research Council has announced the finalists for a national competition to encourage business acumen among young scientists in universities. The qualifying...
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Credibility boost for homeopathy
PRINCE Charles has called for a professional and public debate over the status of complementary and alternative medicine, which he argues should be integrated with orthodox treatments. His comments...
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New hope for allergy sufferers
JONATHAN Lamb, an internationally renowned immunologist, this week unveiled research he hopes will produce a dust mite vaccine to help asthma, rhinitis and eczema sufferers, writes Olga Wojtas....
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Suburbs no living hell
FEW terms in the English language carry more negative baggage than "suburban", which conjures up images of complacent, conformist, conservative mediocrity. Mark Clapson, senior lecturer in history at...
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Armenians must do it for themselves
EUROPE. Higher education and scholarly culture in Armenia needs a massive reconstruction effort if it is to escape from its post-Soviet crisis, Catholicos Karekin I, the head of the Armenian church...
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A university after 40 years of debate
EUROPE. After 40 years of often bitter debate, the city of Bolzano/Bozen, capital of Italy's German-speaking Alto Adige province, is to have its own university. Stiff opposition had come from the...
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Young communists build forbidden party
EUROPE. Young communists are building a new youth movement in Russia's universities despite laws forbidding political activity on campus. Members of the youth wing of the Communist Party of the...
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Germany publishes its first league table
EUROPE. For the first time, the German research association DFG has published a league table showing rankings based on its research funding allocations between 1991 and 1995. The most surprising...
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'Crisis' forces president to quit
EUROPE. The president of Paris-X Nanterre University, Michel Imberty, has resigned after being forced to enroll extra students with no extra resources. Francoise Renversez, a 64-year-old economics...