Battle lines up industrial drive
THE GOVERNMENT plans to make Britain more competitive by boosting a scheme that brings together scientists, businesses and the state. John Battle, new minister of science, announced a Whitehall-wide...
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Treasury announces PFI review
A REVIEW of the Private Finance Initiative has been announced by the Treasury to help speed up the launch of public-private projects. Announcing the review, Geoffrey Robinson, paymaster general at...
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Unions fight for observatories
UNION leaders at Britain's two royal observatories say they will not accept the closure of either historic centre without a fight, writes Julia Hinde. The governing council of the Particle Physics...
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Wellcome sidesteps lab report
THE WELLCOME Trust will not endorse a report backed by all the major research funding bodies calling for urgent action to deal with the "chronic" state of many university laboratories. The report...
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On the ball
That inimitable Liverpudlian sense of humour is in evidence at Liverpool John Moores University, which claims this week to have found a novel use for the cash it extracted from the pay packets of...
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Bedtime comfort from 'Dad'
COLLEGE - the first taste of independence, life away from home and parents. But there is also pressure, stress, anxiety and isolation. For some students at Stanford University in California, the...
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A punishment for no crime
ANTHEA MILLETT makes much of her following procedures "to the letter" and maybe she did. It is the TTA procedures themselves that are unjust and unfair. They are designed to ensure compliance but...
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Current pleasures
Sir Ron Dearing can hardly be faulted for his willingness to take on a challenge. But there are signs he is growing a tad tired of the latest he has set himself - to complete the higher education...
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Slow motion
The odd moment of fun enlivened an otherwise terribly serious AUT council meeting in Scarborough last week. Delegates indulged in a pretty spectacular piece of time wasting over the name of its...
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Deathlong earning
The cash-strapped Open University is tackling Government funding cuts with a unique approach to alumnus relations. Cutbacks at the OU's regional centres, a string of redundancies and a reduction in...
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Whipped delights
As the Government unveils its plans to improve basic literacy in schools, Edinburgh University has launched a pincer movement through its Centre of Canadian Studies. Ged Martin, the centre's director...
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Laid and paid
Alumnus to be proud of No 107 is Tony Banks, our ebullient new sports minister whose evident capacity for enjoying himself was well developed by the time he went to York University as a politics...
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Fine art rewrite
A review of fine art at Glasgow School of Art has been dramatically rewritten in Scotland's first reassessment of any discipline's teaching quality. The school's fine art teaching has now risen from...
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Survey pleads for career emphasis
UNIVERSITIES must become more career-minded if their students are to have a chance in the cut-throat graduate jobs market, employers have warned, writes Harriet Swain. A survey of 12,000 finalists...
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Degrees expand women's wallets
A DEGREE can expand the wallet as well as the mind - especially for women. New government-funded research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies has found women graduates earn 35 per cent more because of...