Schools ready for recruitment battle
Universities are developing some imaginative techniques to cash in on the increase in medical students, writes Alison Goddard. New medical schools, partnerships between existing schools and other...
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Bills and ills
Cambridge University has taken a combative approach to a barrage of criticism from the Campaign for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards, which criticised the university, and others, for spending...
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Doug digs in
Fans of former National Union of Students president Douglas Trainer will be happy to hear he has found himself closer to the seats of power than a place on a New Deal training programme. Trainer is...
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You're all right, Jack
Cheery tidings for former NUS press officer Tim Walker, who has taken the backstairs route to political power as Jack Cunningham's special adviser. Now in a new office close to the Chancellor of the...
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No place like Dome
To get an idea of the calibre of the man now in charge of British science, we need look no farther than Peter Mandelson's record so far as head of the Millennium Dome project, which he is keeping in...
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Glad to leave Leeds
Relieved to be on his train to London last Wednesday was Tom Wilson of the AUT, who had been speaking at a Leeds meeting of the National Union of Students. As the other speakers escaped he was...
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A robot to roam the brain
All in the head: THES reporters investigate the latest advances in brain surgery The Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technology at St Ingbert in Germany is coordinating the development of a robot...
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Surgeons get guiding hand
All in the head: THES reporters investigate the latest advances in brain surgery More than 300 people with brain tumours, benign head tumours and secondary cancers have benefited from the use of a...
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Arms and a Legg
The fetid world of reshuffling politicians was made a little less complex this week by alumnus to be proud of No 183. Sir Thomas Legg, whose report on the arming of Sierra Leone has led to no...
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Employers fly own kites
EMPLOYERS are moving to bypass the Quality Assurance Agency's plans to benchmark higher education courses with their own set of industry "kitemarks" and league tables. As the QAA moves to establish a...
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MPs warn against fraud
THE credibility of vocational education, including training under the government's New Deal for the unemployed, could be undermined by fraud and malpractice, a report from the Committee of Public...
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Visions behind ventures
AT THE heart of every successful joint venture between university and industry is a charismatic figure with vision, initiative and drive, a government-backed study has found. The findings, published...
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Making science as sexy as The Street
Can science programmes ever be as popular as Coronation Street? Tim Matschak investigates Science programming rarely achieves the prominence of the recent BBC series The Human Body with an average of...
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Media courses scrapped in shake-up at BFI
The British Film Institute is pulling out of its involvement in providing media degree courses as part of a big shake-up of its education programme. The institute currently delivers an MA in film and...
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Abusers created early
A violent early childhood may cause adolescent boys, who were sexually abused, to abuse other children, according to a study by David Skuse of the Institute of Child Health and researchers from Great...