Manchester to become computer superpower
A Pounds 26-million supercomputer service funded and managed under a private finance initiative will go to Manchester University. The machine will be based on Silicon Graphics' latest T3E-1200E...
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Asia crisis hits student subsidy
THE FINANCIAL crisis in Asia is likely to force New Zealand to renege on a plan to boost university and polytechnic spending by $NZ103 million (Pounds 33 million). Prime minister Jenny Shipley said a...
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Puttnam to lead Nesta
THE film-maker and Labour peer Lord Puttnam is to head the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Nesta has received Pounds 200 million from the National Lottery.
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1997/98 reveal that: * Ethnic minorities make up 12.8 per cent of all first-year United Kingdom domiciled students * Women made up 54.2 per cent...
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Growth likely to wipe out cash gains
The Comprehensive Spending Review means a 1 per cent per capita cut in real terms for higher and further education. HIGHER EDUCATION Vice-chancellors have declared that the government's spending...
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Correction
LAST week The THES incorrectly reported that the European Commission was proposing a "fivefold" increase in its support for biotechnology research under Framework V. The increase is, in fact, 50 per...
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Oxford chemists spin again
A CHEMICAL software company, Oxford Molecular, created by researchers at the University of Oxford is to launch a Pounds 2.5 million spin-off firm. MicroGenics will help develop a series of...
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Millions lost on patent
SOUTHAMPTON University has lost out on hundreds of millions of pounds in royalties on a breakthrough optical fibre technology because of loose patenting and lack of commercial nous. The technology is...
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Students foot bill for growth
STUDENTS and not the government are funding the bulk of a Pounds 280 million cash boost for universities that still leaves institutions with an overall per capita cut. Claims by the government this...
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Union chiefs go halfway to cross-binary merger
UNION chiefs agreed this week to set up two new staff bodies, based separately in higher and further education and joined together in a federation. The agreement, made by representatives of the...
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Teaching hits top ten for ease of entry
TEACHING is one of the ten easiest degrees to enter in terms of A-level results, figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show. Only librarianship, mathematical and informatics...
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Psychology blow for would-be entrants
Prospective entrants to a psychology course at Heriot-Watt University have been told it is being suspended. The university has imposed the moratorium within a year of launching the course in applied...
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Individual Learning Accounts warning
THE government's plans for a national framework of Individual Learning Accounts will fail without major public investment in advice and guidance systems, warns a report by careers advice...
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TEC underwritten in the short term
MINISTERS have guaranteed funding for the United Kingdom's 78 training and enterprise councils for the next three years, but their funding could still be switched to the new regional development...
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Drama school governors reject staff appeals
Governors at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama have rejected appeals against dismissal from two staff. About 100 students occupied the college last month, and 20 visiting lecturers threatened...