Virtual cash for two
Two university-led projects have won more than Pounds 8 million in the Regional Challenge competition for European Regional Development Funds. Teesside University was awarded Pounds 5.1 million...
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Cash sanctions
Institutions which fail to supply satisfactory financial data may be penalised under new model financial memoranda agreed by the last Higher Education Funding Council for England meeting. Brian...
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Merger remit
The Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Further Education Funding Council have set up a joint committee to consider issues likely to arise from mergers between institutions in the...
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MRC chief named
George Radda, British Heart Foundation professor of molecular cardiology and head of Oxford University's biochemistry department, will succeed Sir Dai Rees as chief executive of the Medical Research...
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North-east pride
A short story competition in honour of Booker prize-winner Pat Barker has been announced at New College Durham. The Pat Barker prize is designed to discover a new generation of writers from the...
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High road to HE
The largest single group of 1994/95 Scottish school-leavers, per cent, went into higher education, according to the latest Scottish Office figures. Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for...
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Smithers counsels against unity
Calls from politicians, education leaders and captains of industry for a unified qualifications system should be resisted, MPs have been told. A single modular qualifications framework embracing...
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Probe of the Yule slog
Christmas can be lonely for overseas students but a new survey hopes to make it happier, Tony Tysome reports. The council for international education, UKCOSA, is planning to launch a national survey...
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Medical vocation diluted during training
A survey of new medical graduates has revealed that since they entered medical school, there has been a drop of more than 10 per cent of those with a very strong desire to study medicine. The British...
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Sussex council attacks registrar job deal
Council members at Sussex University have rebuked a committee chaired by the vice chancellor for agreeing to spend Pounds 150,000 on a house for the incoming registrar without consulting the...
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Law NVQ provides new path to legal career
The first National Vocational Qualifications for lawyers and legal staff are to be launched by the Institute of Legal Executives next year. The move has been hailed as a significant step towards...
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Antithesis
And now here is next year's news . . . JANUARY Spectacular changes in Essex University senate meetings following Ivor Crewe's appointment as vice chancellor. Peter Snow takes the chair while a panel...
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Humming art
(Photograph) - Humming art: Notting ham-based artist Irene Rogan (right) and German artist Brigitte Jurack with their work, currently on display in the "Humming" exhibition at Nottingham Trent...
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Training centre for car plant workers
The Welsh Development Agency and Ford motor company are establishing a Manufacturing Training Centre at Ford's engine plant in Bridgend South Wales. The Pounds 3.5 million centre is expected to be...
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Scientists and engineeers have more job options
Science and engineering graduates possess many of the same general skills and have as much success in finding employment as their arts colleagues, according to Arthur Lucas, principal of King's...