UK counts on paltry R&D force
Less than 1 per cent of the UK workforce worked in research and development in 1997, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Although Finland leads the way with 1.6...
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A three-pronged plan to take UK science and innovation to market
The white paper on science and innovation contains three main strands: enhancing the science base, innovation and knowledge transfer, and the public confidence in science. Enhancing the science base...
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Degree checklist pleases students
Students will soon have a checklist of everything they can expect to learn from a university course. But while student leaders have welcomed the move to make universities draw up detailed "programme...
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Lib-Dem fails to draw Blackstone on top-up fees policy
Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone this week failed to rule out the introduction of top-up fees during the next parliament. During a session of the Commons' select committee on education,...
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Oxford cuts to balance books
Oxford University has had to make cuts of Pounds 9 million this year to offset costs caused in part by the research assessment exercise. In preparation for next year's exercise, the university had...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has officially launched the country's fifth private university. University Tenaga Nasional was formally invited to upgrade to university status in 1997.
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Montevideo
Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle has rejected union demands for a 1.5 per cent increase in the national education budget and told universities to help generate their own income to qualify for higher...
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Reports confirm malaise
Melbourne Three separate research reports over the past five months have documented the worsening state of Australian academe since the conservative government of prime minister John Howard was...
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Spy paranoia hits research
Boston Restrictions passed by the US Congress in the wake of spy scares have interrupted seemingly innocent space research involving foreign students and prompted demands that the new rules be...
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Universities braced for Blair health plan
University medical schools face a second wave of expansion with up to 1,000 more student doctors, it was announced this week. Tony Blair was due to make a statement on the National Plan for the...
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Extra millions fund a fifth of students
New figures show that much of the government's ring-fenced funding for further education will benefit less than a fifth of further education students, writes Tony Tysome. Millions of extra pounds are...
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Nottingham jumps the gun with new degree
Industry training chiefs this week accused Nottingham Trent University of cashing in on foundation degrees before the official launch of the government's proposed new qualification. Andy Powell,...
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Overseas targets pose FE challenge
Further education faces the daunting task of bringing about a fivefold increase in its overseas recruitment rate if it is to achieve government targets, it emerged this week. New figures from the...
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Salaries prompt BEds to revamp
Universities and colleges are rushing to restructure their four-year bachelor of education degrees, as the introduction of salaries for postgraduate trainees hits applications. Figures out last week...
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HE fails to look inwards
University education departments concentrate so much on schools that they virtually ignore higher education as an area for research, according to Stephen Rowland, director of the Higher Education...