Colleges call for bursaries switch
The Association of Scottish Colleges called for further education bursaries to be removed from local authority control as Scottish local government faces reorganisation. The association fears that...
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Easy come, easy go
The Cancer Research Campaign applied to the National Lottery Charities Board for a grant of Pounds 200,000 to investigate mortality from breast cancer in Glasgow, not Pounds 450 million, as we...
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Private launch
The Further Education Funding Council's private finance initiative was due to be launched yesterday with a conference in London addressed by Gillian Shephard, secretary of state for education.
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Internet News
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides details of news, features and books in this week's newspaper. The latest Synthesis charts trends in higher education. Job advertisements appear on THESIS...
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'New' is considered better by the young ones
What do pupils in their early teens know about universities and higher education? Quite a lot, according to new research by the University of Southampton's centre for research in education marketing...
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Home from home
(Photograph) - Home from home: 200 new University of Humberside students fell on their feet last week when they arrived at university to find their accommodation unfinished. Instead the university is...
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Small fantasies
Richard Page, minister for small businesses at the Department of Trade and Industry, this week announced a competition to encourage business awareness among biological science students. The...
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New cancer centre
The Imperial Cancer Research Fund has joined forces with Dundee University and the Dundee Teaching Hospitals' NHS Trust to set up a centre of excellence in cancer treatment. A chair in medical...
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Who clears up
"Nowhere in the world is there a system for dealing with major accidents after the second day," says Gary Coleman, director of a new World Health Organisation clearing house for major chemical...
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Conviction prompts review
Safety procedures are under review at the University of Wales, Swansea, following the conviction of Paul Hickson, the university's former assistant director of physical education, for rape and...
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Food science jobs retained in Aberdeen
The Aberdeen Research Consortium has won a partial victory in its battle against the loss of the Torry Food Science Laboratory, due to be relocated to York as part of the Ministry of Agriculture's...
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Tories go for fee vouchers
Vouchers would be issued to school-leavers to pay flat-rate tuition fees in higher education under radical proposals drawn up by the Conservatives, Fee bands would be axed and local authorities...
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Labour ducks Pounds 10bn bill
"New, young" Labour swept over "old" Labour on further and higher education policies at its party conference in Brighton this week. Battle was joined on the conference floor over a composite motion...
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Gathering of quality chiefs
The first steps towards forming a single quality body, ordered last month by Education and Employment secretary Gillian Shephard, were taken this week as the major players met in London. The Quality...
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Governor cuts row
University of Liverpool plans to halve the size of its governing body are ill- judged and may have repercussions on other institutions, according to university teachers. Liverpool's plans, endorsed...