Refugees' skills wasted
Female refugees with experience and qualifications as teachers, nurses and doctors face major obstacles to working in the UK, a skills survey among those living in London reveals. The study, by the...
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Scottish pay action
Staff at the Scottish Agricultural College have voted to take industrial action next month. Some 84 per cent of members of trade union Prospect backed the move; the turnout was 75 per cent. Union...
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Arts research prize
Researchers in the arts have been invited to enter the research councils' first joint business plan competition. The winners will receive £25,000, while all entrants will benefit from mentoring and...
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Fury as rural study is relocated to city
Governors at Plymouth University have unanimously approved restructuring plans that include scrapping teaching at Seale-Hayne Agricultural College. Students in Exeter and Exmouth will be relocated to...
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MPs force societies to monitor ethnicity
The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering have been forced to monitor the ethnicity of their fellows after MPs accused them of having a "head-in-the-sand attitude to the current...
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Drop 5* grades, advises Royal Society
Five-star departments would be abolished and replaced with a peer review of all staff under the Royal Society's plans to reform research assessment. The Royal Society proposes that subject areas...
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Appointments
* Barry Cox, deputy director of Channel 4 and chairman of the Digital Television Stakeholders' Group, has been named as the University of Oxford's next News International visiting professor of...
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Findings: Strong case for a good plea
A warning to lecturers: do not rest on your laurels. Psychologists have found that an expert with a good reputation will provoke a more hostile response than someone perceived as a non-expert if he...
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V-cs rail against two-tier threat
Vice-chancellors have warned the government not to create a two-tier system of higher education by taking research degree-awarding powers away from some universities and further concentrating...
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Hefce invites university chiefs to submit plans for infrastructure
Vice-chancellors are being asked how they want to spend their shares of the £500 million Science Research Investment Fund. The Higher Education Funding Council for England will announce allocations...
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Findings: Getting stuck in with friends
They might not appear to be the most sociable of creatures, but ecologists have found that limpets have discovered that there is safety in numbers, writes Steve Farrar. While such behaviour is...
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Scots smooth way for cross-level study
Scottish higher education institutions will in the coming academic year offer a unified credit system for all mainstream education and training by couching their qualifications in a new "national...
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Bursary wins praise
Saoirse Cowley applied to read English at University College, Oxford, in part because the college offers bursaries to pupils from schools with limited success at getting people into Oxford. She was...
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Oxford pulls in state students
Applications to Oxford University for 2002 entry rose by 16 per cent compared with last year, with applications from state school pupils growing by almost a quarter. The number of state school pupils...
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Foreign student adviser faces jail
An overseas student adviser is facing a possible jail term after being found guilty of providing illegal immigration advice. Tony Otto was found guilty at Kingston Crown Court this week of providing...