Dearing appointed chair of think-tank
Higher education guru Lord Dearing has been appointed chair of the trustees of a think-tank being set up by the English funding council. The Higher Education Policy Institute will be headed by Bahram...
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University of the NHS moves closer
Ministers will receive a draft development plan for the University of the NHS in August, and a final version will go out for a 14-week consultation in September, Bob Fryer, chief executive of the...
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Business placements aim to bolster science
The Royal Society of Edinburgh hopes to boost the number of science students by offering secondary teachers placements in business and research. The society will award up to four teaching fellowships...
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Poor suffer most from student finance deal
Students from non-traditional backgrounds are most disadvantaged by student finance arrangements, the European Access Network's annual conference heard yesterday. Geoffrey Copland, vice-chancellor of...
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Consultation on health body gets under way
The new Health Professions Council, the regulatory body responsible for 12 health professions from paramedics to physiotherapists, has launched a consultation programme. Health professionals, the...
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Experts probe handling of UKterror attacks
Terrorism experts at St Andrews and Southampton universities are to research the domestic management of terrorist attacks in the UK. The £250,000 study, funded by the Economic and Social Research...
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Bookies make Hawking favourite to scoop prize
Stephen Hawking, Lucasian professor at Cambridge University, has emerged as the bookies' favourite to take the Aventis prize for science books. The Universe in a Nutshell follows the success of A...
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Manure students nose out mucky details
A team of French academics has subjected the humble art of muck spreading to an unprecedented level of scientific analysis. Frédéric Cointault and colleagues at the University of Burgundy have...
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Fewer leavers secure jobs
Fewer university leavers went straight into employment last year, according to data published this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Some 68 per cent of those who graduated last summer...
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Crisis in medics' training
Academic medicine is in crisis with one in ten professorial and senior clinical posts, and one in five lecturer posts, vacant, according to the Academy of Medical Sciences, writes Claire Sanders....
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Opt-out sounds 'death-knell' for languages
University language departments fear they cannot survive survive the impact of green paper proposals to make languages optional from age 14. Thousands of teenagers are expected to drop language...
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Debt rise puts fees on agenda at Oxford
Oxford University is to consider charging differential fees as a way of meeting its mounting deficit. Fees were discussed at a university council meeting on May 20 but the discussion was not included...
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Universities to help colleges target local needs
Universities will play a part in the "comprehensive reform" of 14-19 education and training outlined by education secretary Estelle Morris this week. They will join schools and employers as key...
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Scientists rail at unworthy peers
Significant numbers of physicists believe colleagues get an undeserved share of the credit for academic research publications, according to a survey. Two-thirds of scientists whose latest journal...
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Report urges radical change in Scottish funding
Scottish higher education is reacting cautiously to proposals for a radical new funding system that would reward institutions for their success in tackling government priorities. The Scottish Higher...