Labour grasps nettle
The Labour Party is hastening publication of its long-awaited further and higher education policy paper to avoid being overtaken by the Government's own review of higher education. As Labour leader...
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Trend sinister
Following concerns that female medics face discrimination in taking up a career in surgery, is positive discrimination urgently needed for another under-represented group - left-handers? In the...
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Group argues for patent ruling on DNA
Patents should not be given on DNA sub-sequences which have no known practical application, according to a report on intellectual property and its impact on the academic community published yesterday...
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Heads in the clouds
(Photograph) - Heads in the clouds: Scientists from UMIST are busy vacuuming up the rain before it falls on the Cumbrian Fells. The 2,780ft Great Dun Fell in the Pennines is an ideal location for the...
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Vision zooms in on stock market
The Edinburgh University company that has developed a "camera on a chip" is about to arrive on the Stock Exchange at a price which could reach Pounds 30 million. Edinburgh's technology transfer...
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Search starts for degree standard
Has every holder of a British university degree achieved the same universal standard? The long process of deciding whether minimum, or threshold, standards can be defined for all graduates within and...
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Poetic breakthrough
The science museum has appointed a poet-in-residence to write about its collections and help communicate scientific ideas. The move marks the end of the cold war between science and the arts, and the...
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Russian reels under capitalist threat
Russian teaching is in danger at Edinburgh University following the announcement of the university's 2.6 per cent funding increase from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. The department...
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Medicine for the rich
Medical student leaders have warned that medicine will be for "rich kids" only, following the Government's refusal to recognise their particular financial problems. Sandy Macara, council chairman of...
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Popper's library auctioned
The library of London School of Economics philosopher Sir Karl Popper, which is to be sold by Sotheby's, is expected to fetch Pounds 500,000. Austrian-born Sir Karl, who died last year aged 92,...
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Top reporter
David Charter, who joined The THES in January, was this week named reporter of the year in the Regional Press Awards, sponsored by the UK Press Gazette. The winning articles, in The News, Portsmouth...
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Tribunal delay
An industrial tribunal test case against the Colleges Employers Forum for denying a pay rise to "Silver Book" lecturers has been adjourned for six weeks. Lecturers from Sandwell College are claiming...
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V-cs' pay packages hit six figures
Six-figure pay and pensions packages are becoming commonplace for vice chancellors, a THES survey shows. The survey is based on information disclosed for the first time in the 1993/94 financial...
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Scots FE colleges forced to cut staffing
The threat of compulsory redundancies is looming in Scotland's further education colleges following the latest funding allocations from the Scottish Office Education Department. Falkirk College of...
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LibDems' research plan
The research selectivity exercise should be scrapped and replaced with a new share-the-wealth formula for research funding, suggests Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman. A big...