In the news: Frances Cairncross
The new head of Exeter College, Oxford, likes a wintry dawn dip in Highgate Ladies' Pond and has long been an advocate of legalising all drugs. A mixed blessing for the student body then. Frances...
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Appointments
* Diana Liverman, former director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, has been appointed director of the Environmental Change Institute and professor of...
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Academic pay could link to NHS scales
The issue of linking academic pay to the National Health Service was raised this week as part of a discussion on a shake-up of career structures for nursing academics. The Department of Health's...
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Aston finds fat-buster clue
Aston University researchers are seeking industrial partners to develop an anti-obesity drug that exploits a fat-burning process that affects cancer patients. Weight loss is triggered by a protein,...
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Society to seek rejig of funding
The Royal Society is expected next week to call for a radical rethink of how research is funded, with serious implications for the dual-support system and the research assessment exercise. Royal...
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Blair backs UK biotechnology
Prime minister Tony Blair this week reassured UK scientists that he fully supports biotechnology after academics wrote to him complaining that genetic modification research was under threat. Mr Blair...
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Minister told to act over science threat
MPs this week accused science minister Lord Sainsbury of being "astonishingly laid-back" about the threat of closure hanging over many university physical science departments. The House of Commons...
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UK ahead of rivals in technology transfer
UK university technology transfer is in robust shape despite the global economic downturn and a fall in the number of spin-off companies from British universities, according to a comprehensive survey...
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What's up and what's down
* A total of 561 full-time staff worked on technology-transfer activity at UK universities in 2002, an average of six per institution * A total of 158 spin-offs were created in 2002 * Fifty spin-offs...
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Spin-offs are only part of the story of industry links
Exeter University In the late 1980s, Exeter University had a lucrative royalty deal for an anti-cancer drug with a pharmaceutical company. The income was shared between the inventors and...
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London v-c banks on alliance to fill coffers
The capital's colleges may club together to win even more research cash by creating joint centres of excellence under plans being devised by London University's new vice-chancellor, Sir Graeme Davies...
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Pay law will hit intern market
Enforced payment of the minimum wage to interns from the US could cost the UK economy millions and tarnish London's reputation as the place to be for overseas students, it was claimed this week. Data...
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'Skills paper sidelines universities'
The government's skills strategy white paper marginalises higher education and could stunt development, Universities UK said this week in its response to the paper. In a three-page letter to the...
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Goals focus stifles adult education
Government targets for improving workforce skills are frustrating efforts on the ground to get people back into education, adult-learning leaders have warned. Bureaucrats holding the purse strings of...
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Aspiring lifelong learners need cash and confidence boost
THE EDUCATOR Susan Weall, deputy lifelong learning manager for Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Learning and Skills Council, thinks some of the more common reasons adults give for not getting back into...