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...
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Bid to boost FE staff quality
Tony Tysome reports from the Association of Colleges conference, Birmingham The government has announced measures to improve teacher training for further education lecturers, after an Ofsted report...
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Study? No we'd rather go out, say teenagers
Tony Tysome reports from the Association of Colleges conference, Birmingham A national survey has confirmed what lecturers and parents have always suspected - most teenagers value their social life...
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Industry 'refuses to pay for training'
Tony Tysome reports from the Association of Colleges conference, Birmingham College heads accused employers of blocking progress on the government's skills agenda by refusing to invest more in...
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Ministers dismiss claims that LSC lacks funds to meet targets
Tony Tysome reports from the Association of Colleges conference, Birmingham Ministers have dismissed claims by college heads that the Learning and Skills Council does not have the funding to meet...