Consolation offered to downbeat Daresbury
Trade and Industry secretary Stephen Byers is holding out the prospect of a "new flagship project" for the Warrington-based Daresbury Laboratory site, which recently lost out on a Pounds 500 million...
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Hefce improves first degree job indicators
Institutions are to collect information for a new employability indicator, due for publication in March 2001. All home full-time students graduating with a first degree into the job market will be...
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Police 'harden' student housing against crime
Leicester University students who are victims of crime are being given free extra protection by the local constabulary. Police are working with Leicester's students' union and welfare office to...
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The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has asked us to point out (Whistleblowers April 21) that it was not embarrassed by the criticism levelled at one of its members, Graham Carr, at the...
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Hull files revisited as question continue
Determined lobbying has led the National Audit Office to turn the spotlight on Hull University's beleaguered business school. Phil Baty reviews the allegations of management school mismanagement The...
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Lockerbie links
Legal experts at Glasgow University have relaunched their award-winning website giving guidance and information on the Lockerbie trial. The law school set up a Lockerbie trial briefing unit as a...
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Salford's Sydney site
Lester Stump has one of the key jobs in preparing for the Sydney Olympics - largely thanks to a University of Salford online masters degree in construction IT. He is overseeing construction of all 35...
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Electric ad campaign
The University Advertising Consortium's Pounds 7.5 million, four-year advertising contract has been awarded to Barkers, the second-largest recruitment advertising agency in Britain. Innovative use of...
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Virtual case book
The Australian Legal Information Institute has developed an internet website to make British and Irish case law and legislation available electronically and free of charge to anyone. The institute, a...
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Ericsson deal gives Imperial free web link
Imperial College, London, and the communications giant Ericsson have signed an Pounds 18 million deal to provide free personal internet access to staff, students and alumni, plus, for a price,...
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PCs lend the whiz-kids a helping hand
Language should be less of a barrier to communication this year between students at the 31st International Physics Olympiad. The Olympiad will attract 450 physics students from a record entry of 65...
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Memory lane gets high-tech for SNP
Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party, has visited his alma mater, St Andrews University, to see a revolutionary incubator for research development. The Pounds 1 million photonics...
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Introducing division
I am concerned that the government's initiative to pay trainee teachers a salary ("It's still not a BEd of roses", THES, April 7) has attracted so little comment, especially bearing in mind the...
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A twist on tongues
While we have been busy globalising and promoting e-universities across frontiers, I see the French ("French no longer enough in France", THES, April 28) have (uncharacteristically perhaps?) taken a...
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Top-up pensions contributions
As an academic approaching retirement in 18 months, I was particularly drawn to Oswald's article. I would strongly support moves to encourage the USS to increase the proportion of salary paid at...