Radical plans for overhaul of funding
MPs will offer the government stark choices on student funding, with higher tuition fees, a steeper interest rate on loans and graduate contributions among the likely options. Barry Sheerman,...
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Education rejuvenated in rejig
Young blood was transfused into the education department this week with the appointment of former student leader Stephen Twigg and ex-policy adviser David Miliband. Mr Twigg, 35, a former president...
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Peer review backs Daresbury's bid to secure its future
Daresbury Laboratory's bid to secure its future by building a world-leading light source has received a crucial vote of approval. After successful peer review, the chief executives of the research...
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Anger at Salford over job losses
Lecturers at Salford University are threatening to withhold exam results after it emerged this week that compulsory redundancies are being considered to ensure that 70 jobs are axed by September. A...
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Bristol University is to reorganise its six academic faculties
* Bristol University is to reorganise its six academic faculties, writes Caroline Davis. The arts, engineering and science faculties will remain unchanged but medicine will be split into medical...
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Answer to avoiding brain damage may be in the air all around us
Scientists have found that a rare component of air could prevent some of the most common forms of brain damage. The protective powers of xenon were revealed by Mervyn Maze, professor of anaesthetics...
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The history woman
Anna Thomson meets June Purvis, a champion of the study of feminism trying to foster a 'collective voice'. June Purvis, professor of women's and gender history at the University of Portsmouth, is an...
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Swap your p-book for an e-book?
Electronic publishing is big business, but Helen Davies believes the death of the textbook is greatly exaggerated. In the 1990s, claims were rife that William Caxton's "boke" - or in today's jargon...
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Time to talk, do you copy?
Graham Taylor says the new copyright licence won't mean 'free beer, no police' What do we know of how students study or want to study? The answer, it seems, is remarkably little, and it is perhaps...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
I was 16 and studying ancient Greek, the only person in the year. "My lower-VIth class," the teacher called me without a hint of humour. She towered above me at her high desk, while I dutifully sat...
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Report of scientific and technical research meeting (CREST), 26-27 March 2002
Brussels, 30 May 2002 Summary conclusions of the 282nd meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 26- March 2002. Note to CREST Delegations....
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A new step towards a European area of higher education: European Universities to "tune" their study programmes
Brussels, 30 May 2002 The European Commission will host a big conference gathering over 100 European universities, student associations, professional bodies and employees on Friday 31 May 2002 in...
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EU funded project confirms viability of liquid hydrogen fuelled aircraft
Brussels, 30 May 2002 The results of an EU funded project, Cryoplane, which confirmed the feasibility of liquid hydrogen fuelled aircraft as an alternative to fossil fuelled planes, were presented in...
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Busquin calls on Danes and Belgians to team up for biotech success
Brussels, 30 May 2002 Danish and Belgian science and industry can play a strong role in the European research and innovation area if they team up to build on each others' strengths, according to...
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Experts discuss future research directions at Presidency event
Brussels, 30 May 2002 The Spanish Presidency of the EU brought together more than 300 experts from within and outside the EU at a conference in Seville on 13 and 14 May, to examine policy decisions...