Bristol hit by meningitis
Bristol University was fighting an outbreak of bacterial meningitis this week after three first years and a second year contracted the disease. All four were admitted to hospital and in a stable...
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Sussex gets tax back
Sussex University has received a £1.5 million windfall after the Court of Appeal ruled in its favour over a tax case dating back to 1973. Sussex had submitted a claim to recover VAT on overheads...
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Corrections
In last week's THES ("Contract sparks row over IP rights", page 8) we said that Richard Lambert was carrying out a review of Cambridge business links for the Treasury. In fact, his remit is to review...
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Merger spawns massive hybrid
Thames Valley University is to merge with Reading College to create the UK's most advanced hybrid further and higher education institution. The merged institution, which bills itself as a "vocational...
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Draft rules threaten ethics review system
Academics are demanding changes to draft legislation that could remove them from the ethics committees that decide which medical experiments are carried out in the UK. All National Health Service...
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'Crude' system sows division
Amartya Sen, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Nobel laureate in economics, this week denounced the Samuel Huntingdon classification of the world into largely religiously defined...
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Alumni take expertise home
A tracer study of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship plan has found that the overwhelming majority of award holders, 85-90 per cent, return to their home countries as the scheme...
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Ministers back teaching centre
The Commonwealth this week cleared the path for the creation of a centre of excellence for teacher education at Cambridge University. The plan was endorsed at the three-yearly meeting of Commonwealth...
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Oxford rapped over Wilkie
One of the leaders of last year's academic boycott of Israel attacked Oxford University this week for meting out a "wholly disproportionate punishment" to a professor who rejected a student who had...
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Grand designs for scholarship
Over £260m of public and private cash is going into two campus revamps. The THES reports MIDDLESEX Middlesex University will close its smaller campuses and focus on three sites as part of a £100...
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QAA slated over 'hasty' verdict on foundations
Quality watchdogs have been accused of unfairly maligning foundation degrees in a "prejudicial and premature" report that criticises the quality of the government's new flagship qualification. As The...
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Big-spending nations leave UK trailing in R&D stakes
UK companies still lag behind their international competitors in research and development spending, according to the latest figures from the Department of Trade and Industry. And there are signs that...
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Sailing too close to the wind
Giant belches from the deep could have claimed the lives of many unfortunate mariners. Scientists have found that a single bubble of methane erupting from the sea-bed could swallow a ship and send it...
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'Crazy' teaching cash switch will cost science £22m, say critics
The proposals to change the way teaching is funded at English universities will cost science £22 million, according to pressure group Save British Science. The plans, developed by the Higher...
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Warning over crisis in Islamic studies
Britain must act to avert the crisis facing Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, politicians were told this week, writes Alison Goddard. Minority interests vital to the nation are inadvertently being...