Unit shows extent of research tobacco cash
A TOTAL of 269 out of 185,000 British biomedical papers published between 1988 and 1994 acknowledged support from the tobacco industry for tobacco-related research, according to Grant Lewison of the...
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Entry toughens up for engineering courses
TOUGH new entry standards for engineering degree courses could halve the number of engineering graduates, vice chancellors have warned. The revisions to the programme "Standards and Routes to...
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New industry hotline set up in Glasgow
Glasgow University and Glasgow Development Agency have unveiled a prototype hotline to industry this week. Companies will be able to identify, either from disk or the Internet, academic research and...
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Scottish action runs dry
All industrial action has ended in Scotland's colleges and new universities following staff acceptance of a 2.5 per cent pay award, with the prospect of another 0.4 per cent pending the outcome of...
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Natfhe has submitted its further education pay claim
Lecturers' union Natfhe has submitted its further education pay claim for a flat-rate increase of Pounds 30 a week and a return to a national framework which would include pay bargaining. The union...
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Deans of arts lobby Blair for council
ARTS and humanities deans are piloting a pre-election campaign for a Humanities Research Council. The Council of University Deans of Arts and Humanities is stepping up calls for a separate research...
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Dearing lists the options
Sir Ron Dearing's committee of inquiry into higher education will present the Government with a range of future funding options, Sir Ron said this week. The possibility of students contributing to...
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Risk row repaired
PURE and social scientists ended a five-year squabble and returned to debate risk at the Royal Society this week. More than 300 academics, policy makers, industrialists and members of the public...
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Wales squeezed with 3% cash cut
Eight of the 13 Welsh university-level institutions have had to be safety-netted in the 1997/98 funding allocations announced this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. A ninth...
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The lure of hara-kiri
All is not yet lost for Bryan Davies, Labour further and higher education spokesman and chief collateral-damage victim of Alan Howarth's selection as Labour candidate for Newport East. Mr Davies is...
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Referendum rights
So is the Referendum Party really as much of a single-issue operation as they are telling us? When Essex University's Association of University Teachers branch advertised its pre-election forum,...
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Merger emerger
Ruth Gee, former further education supremo, may have good reason to feel she is backing a winner this time round after turning her talents to helping Labour secure general election victory. Ms Gee,...
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Fired for the fray
The outcome of the recent Oxford Union debate, which voted not to give the Scots or Welsh their own parliaments, came as no surprise to Allan Macartney, the Scottish National Party MEP who has just...
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In good hands we trust
Lucy Neville Rolfe, director of the deregulation unit in the Cabinet Office, spoke eloquently about the benefits of cutting unnecessary rules and procedures at a risk conference in London this week....
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Good vibrations
Alumnus to be proud of No 94 can by contrast expect to be remembered for inducing the ruling that while you cannot bleep in the House of Commons, you can have a vibrator. Brian Wilson, Labour's...