Avoiding racial bias
A set of ethical guidelines for researchers dealing with race and mental health issues has been published by the Transcultural Psychiatric Society and the mental health charity Mind. Existing...
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Care in community succeeds despite scare stories
Despite some media scare stories, replacing psychiatric hospitals with residential care in the community has worked well for most patients, according to an analysis by Noam Trieman and Julian Luff of...
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Ozone study hits new level
This month, developing countries will begin phasing out chlorofluorocarbon production. International regulation of CFC production was prompted by research in the 1970s and 1980s that established that...
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Learners take the slow road
Measures to widen education access have had little effect on the number of participants, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education reported this week. More than 5,000 people took part in...
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Isolation hampers science market
* Poor communication is preventing university researchers from commercially exploiting their work, according to the pressure group Save British Science. "We recommend that universities should gear...
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Blair backs enterprise revolution
(Photograph) - * Britain needs to encourage its entrepreneurs to get ahead in the knowledge-based economy, prime minister Tony Blair (below) told the British Venture Capital Association Conference...
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BMA rejects ban on hepatitis carriers
* Prospective medical students carrying hepatitis B should not be banned from entering medical school, the British Medical Association agreed at its annual conference in Belfast this week. The BMA...
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V-cs reject licensing for student residences
* Vice-chancellors rejected proposals to license student houses for multi-occupation on the grounds of the "unnecessary costs" to the sector and students. The move comes as a response to a Department...
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Dutch minister talks of common standards
* Europe needs a common higher education quality framework to compete internationally, Dutch education minister Loek Hermans said at the fourth University of Westminster International Education...
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Graduation greetings from the bank
* The 2,000 Dundee University students graduating this week and next are having their ceremonies and garden parties sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland. Dundee believes the deal is the first such...
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Scots get a share of US nurse training market
* Scottish Knowledge, which exports education expertise, has forged a partnership with Dundee University that opens the door to a Pounds 3.18 billion market in the United States. Dundee's centre for...
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Sainsbury checks aspiring university
* Science minister Lord Sainsbury this week visited Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh to look at research projects that the college hopes will help its bid for the full university title...
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Teaching agency puts recruitment first
* The Teacher Training Agency has made recruitment and quality its priorities this coming year. The TTA's corporate plan, published this week, includes three core aims: boosting recruitment; raising...
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University accounts face radical reform
* Research-intensive universities will have give a breakdown of spending to account for the money they receive under plans published this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England....
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Lloyds TSB banks on being the biggest
Lloyds TSB bank launched its corporate university this week. With 77,000 potential students, the bank claims the University for Lloyds TSB is "likely to be the largest corporate university in Europe...