Institute will back science spin-offs
A £10 million enterprise initiative, involving a consortium of eight West Midlands universities, has been launched by science minister Lord Sainsbury. The Mercia Institute of Enterprise aims to...
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Surveyors cull 15 to 'safeguard standards'
Fifteen higher education institutions accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors have failed to be accepted on new partnership arrangements. The institute has announced partnerships...
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Funding rumblings in valleys
Underfunding of universities and colleges in Wales is the key issue that needs to be addressed by the Welsh Assembly's higher education review, a national survey has found. A preliminary report...
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Macho dons get equality training
All Cambridge University managers are to have compulsory equal opportunities training after a staff audit found that the university's predominantly white, male leaders are propagating a "macho" and "...
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Employers prepare to cave in over staff pay
Employers are ready to give in to key trade union demands, raising hopes for an end to the industrial action that is paralysing the new universities, according to a letter to vice-chancellors. The...
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Natfhe has launched a full "academic boycott" of Sheffield Hallam University
Natfhe has launched a full "academic boycott" of Sheffield Hallam University and will ballot for strikes over a threat by vice-chancellor Diana Green to dock pay from any lecturer taking part in any...
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Intrepid toddler
(Photograph) - Cameron Munro, who sparked a massive police search in the Highlands when he went on an overnight dinosaur hunt last October, has launched Glasgow University's 'Walking with Dinosaurs'...
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Analysis: Private lives of public places
Labour is strongly in favour of public-private initiatives, but what are the implications for institutions? The commission on public-private partnership (PPP) set up by the Institute for Public...
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International advisers get ethics code
Universities and colleges are adopting a code of ethics for international student advisers. The code, drawn up by the UK Council for Overseas Student Affairs and the Association of International...
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Three in four nursing trainees in debt
Three out of four nursing students are in debt, with average debts of £3,400, according to a Royal College of Nursing survey of 800 student nurses. The RCN is campaigning for higher, non means-tested...
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School bullying sours family relations
School bullying can destroy marriages and relations with children, an academic expert warned a parents' conference in Edinburgh last week. Andrew Mellor of Edinburgh University's education faculty...
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Psychologist loses case for damages
A psychology lecturer who claimed a campaign of victimisation cost him his job and his mental stability has lost his fight for damages. Michael Laidler, former head of psychology at New College,...
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Scots NHS racism under microscope
Paisley University has won £30,000 from the Commission of Racial Equality to investigate racism in the National Health Service in Scotland. The one-year investigation, led by Rohan Chauhan, will...
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Belfast trouble spots hit mental health
One in three patients in doctors' surgeries in north and west Belfast shows signs of psychiatric problems, says a report from Ulster University's primary care research group. Dorothy Whittington and...
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Plea for EU to fund humanities research
Humanities should be funded as part of the European Union's research programme, according to the British Academy in a report to the European research commissioner Philippe Busquin. "It should be...