Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad held an unscheduled closed-door meeting with 34 undergraduates from the International Medical University to discuss their claim that the university had...
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R&D faces a Pounds 2bn shortfall
An additional Pounds 2 billion needs to be pumped into research and development to put the United Kingdom on a par with competitor nations, according to two damning reports. One report, by the...
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FE invests in private partnerships
Further education's biggest public-private partnership deal, announced this week, has been hailed by funding chiefs as the future for supporting major redevelopment in the sector. Canterbury College...
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Food science industry starved of recruits
Falling numbers of students pursuing food science in British universities are putting the industry at risk, an expert panel has warned. Alastair Robertson, chairman of the Institute of Food Research...
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Edwards to become Newcastle v-c
Christopher Edwards (below), principal of Imperial College, London's school of medicine, will become vice-chancellor of Newcastle University from January 2001, following James Wright's retirement....
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Gates and Cambridge talk scholarships
Cambridge University is talking to Bill Gates, owner of computer giant Microsoft, about a Pounds 130 million programme that would allow the university to offer graduate scholarships. Mr Gates has...
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Cricklade cleared of dismissal charge
Cricklade College did not victimise lecturer Andrew Murray for his union activity, an employment tribunal has ruled. The Southampton tribunal ruled unanimously that Mr Murray, branch official for...
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Alleged MI6 officer out of Lockerbie briefing
A member of Glasgow University's Lockerbie trial briefing unit has been dropped following allegations that he is a former MI6 officer. Recent press reports have claimed that Andrew Fulton, a visiting...
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Calls for justice
(Photograph) - Student protesters outside the Jakarta home of former Indonesian president Suharto on the second anniversary of his downfall after 32 years in power. Demonstrators demanded his trial...
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Clarification
The Open University of the Netherlands, not the Open University, is involved in discussions about a joint venture with Dutch further education colleges (THES, May 12).
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Paradoxes of grunge
As a philosopher, Harry Lewis (Letters, THES, May 19) will surely be aware of other Paradoxes of Grunge besides the ones he mentions, such as: * Schemes that set out to prove that things are getting...
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FEFC investigates Basildon College
Further education chiefs expressed "extreme concerns" over financial, management and quality problems at Basildon College this week. Further Education Funding Council chief executive David Melville...
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Labour students chair denied re-election
The chairman of the National Organisation of Labour students has been banned from standing for relection because he is no longer a student. The Organisations Sub-Committee, a sub-committee of the...
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MPs urge Brown to rethink don nomination
MPs have called on chancellor Gordon Brown to reconsider his nomination of academic Christopher Allsopp, a fellow of New College, Oxford, to sit on the Bank of England's interest rate-setting...
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Belgrade
Former Yugoslav president and academic Dobrica Cosic, who once proposed partioning Kosovo, has joined judges, academics and intellectuals on the council of Otpor, the Serbian resistance movement....