Quality lockout
A GROWING band of top universities is testing the authority of higher education's standards watchdog by closing its doors to auditors. Oxford, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle universities have...
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Unisys wins Durham info contract
The University of Durham's governing council has agreed to privatise management information services under contract to Unisys Ltd for an undisclosed sum. The Association of University Teachers has...
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In Brief
The University of Kent at Canterbury is not planning to drop or significantly reduce its physics programmes, as stated in The THES last week. Last year undergraduate recruitment figures for physics...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's figures for 1996-97 reveal that Of the 1,756,179 higher education students recorded * 52.5 per cent were women * 11.3 per cent were from countries other than...
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BMA wants to set trainee doctor numbers
Student numbers at each medical school should be set publicly to ensure teaching quality, the British Medical Association announced this week. This follows last year's decision to train 1,000 more...
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HEFCE probe at Anglia
SENIOR managers at Anglia Polytechnic University face an investigation by the Higher Education Funding Council for England after complaints that they have attempted a cover-up of allegations exposed...
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Labs get networking
Europe is ploughing billions into biotechnology and bioscience. Alison Goddard and Kam Patel report THE European Commission has launched a plant biotechnology research network to improve technology...
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Fall of bill may make fees soar
TUITION fees could soar if peers and MPs fail to reach agreement over the Teaching and Higher Education bill in the next few weeks. The bill, designed to prevent top-up fees, abolish maintenance...
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Animal laws 'hamper medical and bio research'
THE laws that govern animal experiments are hampering British research in the medical sciences and biotechnology, according to a society that represents researchers. The Research Defence Society made...
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Arts board gets in gear
THE new Arts and Humanities Research Board will shortly be calling for bids for research project money, it was agreed this week. Details of the board were worked out in talks between the Higher...
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Blunkett push for an extra billion
EDUCATION secretary David Blunkett is looking for at least Pounds 1.6 billion extra for education from next week's comprehensive spending review. Mr Blunkett told MPs on Tuesday that the department...
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FE trebles its debt in four years
Debt levels in further education trebled from Pounds 49.6 million in 1994 to Pounds 162.2 million in 1997. This year's Further Education Financial Yearbook published this week by Noble Financial...
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Trainee circus artistes recruited for Dome
A shortage of skilled circus performers has forced the company charged with building the Millennium Dome, the New Millennium Experience Company, to recruit and train 100 young people for a...
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Nesta plans to hand out Lottery dosh
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts was formally created last week to foster talent, innovation and creativity in all three areas. It aims to dispense cash from its Pounds 200...
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Flying the flag for Britain
The British Council employs more than 1,500 professional teachers of English at 1 teaching centres in 54 countries, teaching 1.1 million class hours in 1997-98, its annual report reveals this week....