British Library identifies Pounds 8 million need
THE British Library's consultation document on ways to raise income says its current grant-in-aid of Pounds 80.45 million is Pounds 8 million less than it needs for its spending on acquisition and...
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European women of achievement
Christina Preston of London University's Institute of Education and Bozena Mannova of the Czech Technical University have won a European Women of Achievement award for their work with teachers and...
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Manchester scientists launch genetic firms
SCIENTISTS at Manchester University have formed two companies to exploit their expertise in analysing genetic data and promising research work aimed at fighting human and agricultural fungal...
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What the baroness foresaw
Physics is healthy and yet university departments are closing or merging. THES reporters investigate BARONESS Blackstone attracted a storm of protest last year when she suggested that the proportion...
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Small performers feel the student squeeze
Physics is healthy and yet university departments are closing or merging. THES reporters investigate UNDERGRADUATES The proportion of undergraduates choosing physics is falling and is now less than 1...
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Why study physics?
Physics is healthy and yet university departments are closing or merging. THES reporters investigate David Colling Researcher in the high-energy particle physics group at Imperial College, London. "...
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Scots anomaly stays
ENGLISH, Welsh and Northern Irish students entering Scottish universities this autumn will pay up to Pounds 1,000 more for their degree than classmates from Scotland and the Europe Union, it has been...
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College launches financial inquiry
AN INTERNAL inquiry into the financial crisis at Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education in Birmingham is under way. It is looking at previous management and governance. In an...
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Statute shake-up on cards
OLD universities are set for a wholesale change in statutes due to recommendations on governance in the Dearing report. Most pre-1992 institutions have governing bodies larger than the 25 members...
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HEFCE clears Anglia
THE Higher Education Funding Council for England has ruled that managers at Anglia Polytechnic University did not try to cover-up allegations of nepotism, bullying and mismanagement at the business...
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Union accuses Middlesex of creating 'climate of fear'
NATFHE has attacked the executive at Middlesex University for creating a "climate of fear and despair" and destroying free speech at the university, writes Phil Baty. A newsletter, from the Middlesex...
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Liquor licence
Peers must have been sober as judges on Tuesday when they ended their repeated opposition to the government on Scottish tuition fees, if we are to believe home office minister Lord Williams of Mostyn...
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Short goodbye
Some see him as the Trojan Horse sent to infiltrate the enemy before the troops storm in. Or perhaps he is more a Helen, whose defection to the enemy drew her jealous clan in hot pursuit. Either way...
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Dewar's cut
Censorship or charity? Scotland's hacks were treated to a live broadcast of Gordon Brown's comprehensive spending review speech at the Scottish Office in Edinburgh. But when the chancellor finished,...
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Bad deal
The Association of Colleges fought hard to ensure that the long-term unemployed would not be denied places on higher education access courses under the New Deal. Naturally it was horrified to...