Grants lobby finds fresh ammunition
Student maintenance grants increase access to university and cut dropout rates, research from Harvard University has shown. Harvard economist Susan Dynarski found that in the United States the chance...
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Ulster boosts local regeneration with arts-driven campus
Ulster University has unveiled plans for a £40 million campus in central Belfast. The university has not yet secured the funding, but has won support from the city council's planning committee for...
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Class act
Stacey O'Neil and Peter Rhys Duggan star in Neverland , by Phyllis Nagy, as part of Salford Univeristy's development project in theatre. The project gives graduates the chance to develop and showcase...
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Stalled growth thwarts Labour
Student demand for university places is almost static, jeopardising government expansion plans. Figures released this week by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show a 0.8 per cent rise...
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Next week
NEWS Hardship funds or grants: the second THES student poverty analysis. FEATURES Salman Rushdie on democracy, evil and why he is writing shorter novels. BOOKS Philip W. Anderson on egg balancing and...
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For the record
Welsh colleges get £4 million boost The Welsh Assembly has announced a £4 million boost for further education colleges in Wales. An extra £3.17 million will be provided this year to help colleges...
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President Clinton to open Oxford institute
Former United States president Bill Clinton is to open Oxford University's Rothermere American Institute in May, raising speculation that he may take a more prominent role at the university. Rumours...
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Creepy-crawly species go in for a recount
Good news for those afraid of creepy crawlies - there may be fewer species than previously thought. Frode Øregaard, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Trondheim, has...
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Clarification
Stranmillis University College was inadvertently omitted from last week's employment league table. Some 124 full-time home degree students graduated from the college last summer, 98 per cent of whom...
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Chaos on cards as battle for pay rages
A summer of industrial action that could prevent university students from graduating is looming as unions this week rejected a 3.3 per cent pay rise. Lecturers' union Natfhe, which already has a...
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Confused v-cs given free hand over £330m fund
Vice-chancellors appear to have been given the green light to channel an extra £330 million into lecturers' pay packets over the next three years. Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone told...
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Disease diagnosis tops list as last of JIF riches is dished out
The last £24 million of the Joint Infrastructure Fund has been dealt out from the £750 million pot set up by the Wellcome Trust and the Department for Trade and Industry in 1998. At the same time,...
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High-cost capital is low on attraction
London universities may be jeopardising their application rates because of the high cost of their accommodation. A survey shows that many of the institutions pinpointed as having the most expensive...
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New PhD to attract overseas students
Ten British universities are preparing to launch a broader PhD programme designed to answer growing competition for overseas graduates from the United States. The "new route" PhD, backed by the...
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Social worker degree doubts
Social work academics are concerned that the government's drive towards competences and vocationalism could undermine the academic content of the new three-year degree-level qualification. Last month...