Quality threshold 'too low'
universities and colleges have warned quality watchdogs that they are in danger of "selling UK higher education short" with new definitions of standards. Attempts by the Quality Assurance Agency to...
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Research funding future in doubt
The government this week side-stepped the question of whether the dual support system will continue. In its response to a report from the Commons science and technology committee on the implications...
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Space station under attack
Space science is under threat from missions that take place for political rather than scientific reasons, according to a study of 13 joint US-European missions. To avoid failure, there must be a...
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Teaching gets graded
THE Teacher Training Agency and school inspection agency Ofsted have published proposals for monitoring teacher training standards from September. The key change is a cut in the number of areas...
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Business ideas get extra cash
Budding entrepreneurs in universities can bid for a slice of a Pounds 50 million government venture capital fund to help turn promising research into successful business. Science minister John Battle...
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New MA for work consultants
The successor to the work placement has arrived at Lancaster University, where postgraduates on a new arts course are offered to employers on a consultancy basis. John Wakeford, director of...
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Nottingham Trent University degree learning takes place in the work environment
In a similar initiative aimed at undergraduates, Nottingham Trent University has teamed up with Marks & Spencer, Reuters, Commercial Union and Tesco, among others, to devise a new degree in...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author whose inexact anagram was to become immortal: "My dear Mark, Today...
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The Balkans battle on
Between Serb and Albanian - Kosovo
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Pleasure, leisure, protest, propaganda
The Power of the Poster
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From rags to Royal Society
Edward Frankland
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Gaian takes on Darwin
Slanted Truths
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Lessons on muddling through
All the Essential (Half-) Truths About Higher Education
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Near the bottom
8.1% of professors are women Cardiff, 'The Boys' Club' Carol Featherston, 31, has been a lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of Wales, Cardiff, her first academic post, for two...
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At the top
8.1% of professors are women South Bank South Bank's reputation as the best place for a woman to aim for a professorship is somewhat surprising, given that only a few years ago it was generally seen...