Charities welcome call to open books
BRITAIN'S research charities have welcomed a call to pay "the full economic costs of the (university) research they fund and no more". The recommendation by the influential House of Commons science...
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Talks dangle bonus for good teaching
EXCELLENT teaching in universities is to receive its reward under a key funding council strategy discussed this week. Talks will take place over the next few months on how to allocate money to...
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Buildings in dire straits
WORLD-class higher education needs investment on the scale envisaged by Dearing, funding chief Brian Fender told delegates to his council's annual conference this week. "Universities and colleges can...
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Green among Bradford's recycled mills
Bradford is chipping away at the grimy veneer stubbornly clinging to its image to rebrand itself next week as one of the greenest and most progressive places in Britain. The Yorkshire city is...
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Hopes for derelict sites
YORK University archaeologists are seeking to persuade businesses to re-use thousands of derelict mills, warehouses, factories, naval dockyards and power stations dotted around the country. Their...
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Scramble for new docs
Hertfordshire University has become the latest institution without medical students to join the scramble for up to 1,000 new medical school places. Universities and National Health Service regional...
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Novelist's quest for science
Novelist Ian McEwan is to chair the panel of judges for this year's Rhone-Poulenc prize for science books. Mr McEwan is "a voracious reader of science", whose consumption of the genre has accelerated...
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Titanic heroism masked tragedy
AN Investigation into the sinking of the Titanic has revealed how the Edwardians turned the tragedy into a triumph within a few days of the event and the loss of 1,522 lives. Cultural historian...
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Cash-strapped museums turn to locals to champion cause
THE POWERFUL and vocal support mustered by London museums for extra public funding is having an adverse effect on regional museums whose plight is being largely ignored. In a letter to the Museums...
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Academic tale of audit overload
Huw Richards on the Political Studies Association conference ACCOUNTABILITY is one of the buzzwords of the 1990s, widely acknowledged as a good thing. But you can have too much of a good thing,...
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Wheeler dealing of Tsar Boris
Huw Richards on the Political Studies Association conference BORIS Yeltsin's recent sacking of his government was spectacular and unexpected but fits logically into the pattern of events since he...
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Hundred years war
(Photograph) - Hooded students in Guatemala City carry a float in a parade that has been held every April for 100 years. It is traditionally part sophisticated political protest and a larger part...
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A Luciano Nezzo painting
(Photograph) - Mouth piece: Luciano Nezzo's painting of a surgeon holding a dental key behind his back is part of an exhibition of 'Needles in Medical History' at the Wellcome Trust's History of...
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Where there's muck there's brass
(Photograph) - How the Scottish Agricultural College makes millions from services to the country's farmers. Twelve pages of Research news, grants and jobs, pages R1 R12
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Fact File
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings reveal that: * 7.7 per cent of male first-degree students obtained first-class degrees. * 6.3 per cent of female first-degree students obtained first...