Biotech spin-offs get £1.2 million boost
A group of small biotechnology spin-off companies received a £1.2 million boost this week, winning funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The six projects were...
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AHRB supports scheme to encourage start-ups
The Arts and Humanities Research Board has joined the research councils' Business Plan Competition, giving prospective start-ups in the creative industries the chance to win £25,000 towards marketing...
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Streaming bright pupils 'increases inequality'
American educationist Adam Gamoran this week gave a public lecture at Edinburgh University warning that creating separate classes for high-achieving pupils risks exacerbating social inequality....
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Colleges and employers draw up race guidelines
Further education college unions and employers have joined forces to produce an equal-opportunities and anti-discrimination agreement for the sector. The Association of Colleges is also developing...
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Mandela in Oxford for naming ceremony
Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, will be in Oxford tomorrow when a lecture theatre at the Said Business School is named after him.
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Canberra
Australia is to legislate to allow embryonic stem-cell research but will not permit therapeutic cloning. Researchers will be allowed to use embryos that would otherwise be destroyed.
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Washington DC
The US government has imposed tougher controls on students seeking to enter the country in a post-September 11 clampdown. Visa clearance must be obtained before international students can start their...
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Dutch on flying tour of British institutions
A party of 60 Dutchmen and women are touring 11 UK universities in England and Scotland this month to pick up tips on how they are using learning technology. The group comprises delegates from Surf,...
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Scots try to bridge the industry-academe gap
Scotland is looking at a national scheme to allow academics and industrialists to move more easily from one sector to the other in a bid to promote knowledge transfer. The Scottish Higher Education...
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Puzzle-solver could win $1 million prize
A researcher from Southampton University says he has solved a question that has troubled mathematicians for a century. Martin Dunwoody has submitted his proof of Poincare's Conjecture. If correct, he...
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Electronic books 'will be in huge demand'
Lord Stevenson, chairman of Pearson plc, told a conference this week that the "book is here to stay" and predicted a bright future for companion websites. The conference, "Higher Education and...
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Singing Ron cuts disc for charity
Ron Lorimer, a store technician at Dundee University's School of Life Sciences, infamous for singing while he works, has cut a CD of classic tracks, backed by bass guitarist and PhD student Alex...
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Correction
David Paton, who featured in a THES story about university economists finding a way to beat bookmakers (March 29) is senior lecturer in industrial economics at Nottingham University Business School,...
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Part-time numbers growing
More and more people are studying part time, according to data released this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Full-time first-degree students now make up less than half of the student...
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Colleges in clash with LSC leader
College heads have again clashed with John Harwood, chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council, this time in a dispute over a proposed national learner survey. Mr Harwood has accused the...