Making the case for more cash from Mr Brown
University and college leaders are preparing their case for more investment in higher education in chancellor Gordon Brown's spending review, SR2000, which will cover 2002-05. The chancellor wants...
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A foreign country with hostile border controls
Homeless people face formidable financial and administrative barriers to gain access to higher education, says Carolyn Hayman Think of homeless young people and the image that comes to mind is of...
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Why I want more inner-city youngsters to go to our top universities
I have been very impressed by the experience of Peter Lampl's Sutton Trust. Over the past two years, it has worked with hundreds of inner-city youngsters to widen their horizons by bringing them on...
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Readers' reactions
Previously in The THES...John Kingman said academic pay and conditions must improve to preserve the UK science base My experience is that there is a perceptible decrease in the quality of both PhD...
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A foot in both camps
Art, music, drama and business lecturers should have short contracts and work outside the academy, says Christopher Frayling A couple of weeks ago, I was phoned about a league table, compiled by...
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Doing quite well by all accounts
Next week, statistics will find some universities failing disadvantaged youngsters. But Diana Warwick argues that existing measures show that HE is performing well The public scrutiny of universities...
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Universities lose out as FE scoops cash
Further education colleges have won the lion's share of post-16 cash in a funding battle that leaves universities with cuts for the tenth consecutive year. University bosses say that the year-on-year...
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College managers under scrutiny
* The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has appointed consultants KPMG to review management at 12 colleges in a pilot project. The review, overseen by a SFEFC steering group chaired by...
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Baroness Blackstone
* Baroness Blackstone is at loggerheads with Liberal Democrat education spokesmen over research for the education department that showed that mature students would be deterred by the introduction of...
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Sainsbury searches for industry growth
* Science minister Lord Sainsbury has announced the government is to step up efforts to promote industrial "hot spots". Building on a study of "clustering" in biotechnology, the initiative aims to...
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Rolls-Royce looks for skills partners
* Aerospace giant Rolls-Royce will today signal a fundamental rethink of its relationship with universities and colleges in an effort to overcome an acute skills shortage. At a conference in Coventry...
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Support swells for 'God Save the Queen'
* Patriotic lecturers at the University of Leeds are standing up for the national anthem after it was dropped from degree ceremonies last summer because of the large number of overseas students to...
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Russian military brains probe heart of matter
n Russian former military scientists will be putting their expertise into the investigation of the nature of matter in a ground-breaking Pounds 4.8 million contract signed with the European particle...
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Sources for research funding
INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER (IARC) www.iarc.fr Postdoctoral Fellowships The IARC is offering five postdoctoral fellowships to junior scientists with experience in a research area...
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Get students to run the show
WHAT. Dave Shaw describes how his final-year psychology undergraduates taught themselves about sport. WHY. Students have knowledge, experience, resources and presentation skills that more traditional...