Conscious union
PHILOSOPHERS and psychologists are putting their heads together in a cross-university project examining consciousness. The project, run by Warwick University in collaboration with researchers at...
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How eyes fine-tune
SCIENTISTS at Sussex University working on how information received through the eye is translated by the brain into hand movements are close to understanding how pianists read music. Michael Land, of...
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Seeing you seeing me
NEURO-RESEARCHERS have discovered what appears to be a brain spot governing human beliefs about the world, helping to explain and potentially assist autistic and schizophrenic people. Chris and Uta...
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Museums face bar on asset sell-offs
THE MUSEUMS and Galleries Commission is seeking to strengthen legal protection for university museums amid fears that higher education cuts are making collections vulnerable to "asset-stripping"....
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Moves for stability
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has introduced measures to promote stability next year and support top research in the long-term. It has phased in changes in research...
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Teaching
Of the Pounds 2,380 million allocated for teaching, Pounds 2,326 million is core funding - 98 per cent of the total compared to 99 per cent last year. An extra Pounds 34 million will be available as...
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Research
Changes in both research ratings and the volume of staff identified in last year's research assessment exercise, combined with new methods of calculating the pots of money available for each subject...
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Non-formula funding
Total non-formula funding for 1997/98 is Pounds 306 million, including Pounds 16 million which would previously have been allocated under DevR. This money will cover the same kinds of institutions...
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Maximum aggregate student numbers
This is the maximum number of home or EU award-holding students each institution is contracted to recruit. Overall student numbers supported by the teaching grant next year will be roughly the same...
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Trade unionists branded as campus security risk
LECTURERS who led the banned Academic Staff of Universities have been labelled "security risks" on the two campuses of the University of Nigeria at Nsukka. The authorities have used the term to...
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Rwandan scholars 'conspired'
THE RWANDAN massacres of 1994 were far from simple explosions of tribal hatred. The intellectual basis for mass murder was laid by university scholars trained in the United States and Britain, it is...
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Sector's shower of gifts
Canada's shell-shocked higher education sector has gratefully accepted a host of gifts from a government expected to call an election soon. Liberal finance minister Paul Martin has unveiled the...
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Melbourne plans full fees
The University of Melbourne has become the first ߣߣÊÓƵn university to unveil plans to charge some home undergraduates full-cost fees of up to Aus$22,000 (Pounds 11,000) a year. If plans by Alan...
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Prizewinning abuser jailed
Nobel prize winner Daniel Carleton Gadjusek will spend a year behind bars after pleading guilty to two counts of sex abuse on a boy he adopted from Micronesia, in the Pacific Ocean. Professor...
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Second sex centre set to be first to go
Academics at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montreal are feeling very much like the "second sex" now that their feminist research centre has been targeted for closure. Concordia University in...