Ballot result expected on revised pay offer
STAFF in Scottish universities and colleges were this week expecting the results of a ballot on a revised pay offer which could signal the end of their industrial action. The dispute, centred on the...
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DoE pumps Pounds 34,000 into greening
FOUR years after the Toyne report first demanded the greening of Britain's universities, the Department of the Environment has contributed Pounds 34,000 to a national "greening" initiative. The money...
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Business masters get graded benchmark
A BENCHMARK to monitor the quality of the growing number of master of business administration courses will be set up by October 1998 following overwhelming endorsement of the plans by members of the...
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State intake falls despite Oxford exam demise
ABOLISHING its entrance exam has not helped Oxford University increase its intake of state school pupils. The proportion of state students offered places this year, the first year chosen solely on A-...
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Women on top in undergraduate achievement
WOMEN are outperforming men in securing higher education places, gaining first and upper second class degrees, finding jobs soon after graduating, and completing initial teacher training courses, new...
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Leeds Met students fight health faculty closure
STUDENTS at Leeds Metropolitan University will hold a rally today against planned closure of the faculty of health and social care. About 100 students occupied the office of vice chancellor Leslie...
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Birkbeck board backs axe for physics
THE ACADEMIC Board at Birkbeck College has recommended the closure of the institution's physics department by the end of this academic year and its transfer to neighbouring University College. A...
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CBI: don't divert funds to primary schools
Widely mooted plans to redirect education budget funds from higher education into primary education would not be supported by business, the Confederation of British Industry said this week. Launching...
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CVCP: collaborate or be squeezed
THE Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is calling for an expansion in university research collaboration projects in order to offset the funding squeeze. In a similar move, Scotland's degree...
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Dearing to boost arts research
Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry into higher education is likely to recommend the creation of a humanities and arts research council when it reports later this year. The Dearing research working group is...
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Dolly's big hello to transgenics
Improved transgenic organs for transplant from animals to humans may result from controversial cloning experiments currently under way. Researchers at the Roslin Institute and PPL Therapeutics in...
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NUS plans fees upset
The National Union of Students will step up its anti-tuition fees campaign to keep the issue on the pre-election agenda, it emerged this week, writes Phil Baty Student union presidents at this week's...
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Newport convention
It had to happen. Bryan Davies, Labour's further and higher education spokesman and Alan Howarth, floor-crossing former Tory minister for same, are running against each other for the same...
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My mate David
Alumnus to be proud of No. 91 is determined to leave no stone unturned in his bid to become the archetypal eccentric scientist. David Bellamy, the much-loved hirsute expert on things that live under...
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All hail Noel
The unholy trinity of Lewis Wolpert, Richard Dawkins and Peter Atkins has been challenged by a retired consultant psychiatrist from Manchester, Noel Curran, aged 80, to "defend their absolute...