Wellcome switch to overseas research
Hopes that the Wellcome Trust would spend its newly boosted income on medical research in the United Kingdom have faltered with the publication of its new policy statement, in which it emphasises...
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Ceasefire gives Ulster a chance to improve city
An Institute of Urban Affairs for Belfast is to open as part of a Government plan to improve the city in the aftermath of the paramilitary ceasefires. Academics from the University of Ulster, where...
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Probe into why doctors drop out
The British Medical Association is drawing up plans to follow the careers of 500 medical students to discover why up to a quarter drop out of the profession three years after qualifying. One possible...
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BT cash source for small projects
Builders all carry mobile telephones, but they have reason to hate British Telecom. Peter Thompson, head of BT Education Services, says that when dealing with university requests for funds the...
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Alas poor Celt
(Photograph) - Alas poor Celt: Archaeologist Bob Watts holds a severed human skull, possibly a Celtic sacrifice, found around Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales. University of Bradford staff are...
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Lords told of science career obstacles
Many young academic scientists are being denied the career security necessary to help them become established, the Medical Research Council told the Lords this week. Sir Dai Rees, MRC chief executive...
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Parliament to debate 16 to 19s
The National Commission on Education's report on reforming post-school learning is to be debated at a major parliamentary inquiry into 16 to 19 provision. The report, Learning to Succeed After 16*, (...
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Off the map
Those Marriott Hotel advertisements that have succeeded, by excluding Wales, Ireland and Scotland from their map of the British Isles, in annoying the Celtic fringes on a scale previously only...
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Don't bank on it
No great surprises at the top end of The THES table of vice chancellors' pay, but our researcher thought momentarily he was on to an income to strike envy into George Graham, Nick Leeson and the...
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Means test
Oxford Brookes chancellor Helena Kennedy QC, soon to be investigating the key issue of broadening participation in further education, has passed on some top tips she once received on how to study and...
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Right balance
Rather more the PAC's sort of thing was the conversation a year or two back between two principals of further education colleges. One expressed a degree of amazement that the other had left his...
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Line of sight
The Secretary of State for Employment may think he is divinely inspired, but do the vice chancellors of Britain's universities have to swallow the story? Today the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Stone unturned
Spotted in the visitors book at the Higher Education Funding Council for England last week the discreet entry "S. Stone: Purpose of visit, interview". Nice to know that you're interested, Sharon, but...
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Teacher trainers lose out in Wales
Three Welsh higher education colleges are significant losers in funding allocations for next year announced by the funding council this week. The University of Wales College of Medicine, Bangor...
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Scottish students drop grants-only support
The National Union of Students in Scotland has radically shifted its position on student support and is no longer pressing for grant-only funding. At its annual conference last weekend in Stirling,...