Kudos for the nation's training leaders
The government this week announced 15 winners in the National Training Awards. They include Paul Champion, who worked in the engineering industry before earning a sports studies degree then a further...
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UK physicists crack mouse brain puzzle
A challenge to the world's scientists to crack an artificial brain puzzle was met by a group of young British physicists in just one hour. David MacKay and colleagues at the Cavendish Laboratory,...
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PC system protects British bees
An automated bee identification system has been created to help defend native species from foreign invaders. The technique, which uses a personal computer to analyse the images of 15 different...
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Students prefer the big city
A big-city lifestyle still proves a lure for students: universities in key metropolitan areas typically receive most applications. A study by marketing company Riley Research found that the...
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Student loan load soars
The amount students owe in loan repayments is soaring, the Department for Education and Employment says. Its statistical bulletin shows that, provisionally, the total outstanding was nearly £4.6...
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Jodrell Bank hopeful of upgrade
Astronomers at Jodrell Bank are confident of securing a £12.4 million upgrade, despite sweeping cuts being planned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. The proposal would increase...
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AUT resists local pay deals
Plans by research-led universities to break free of national pay structures and usher in market-led local deals will be opposed with "all possible measures" by the Association of University Teachers...
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Hertfordshire faces legal action
Hundreds of students have demanded compensation for falling academic standards at the University of Hertfordshire, raising the prospect of mass legal action. The university announced the closure of...
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Ministers propose skills initiatives
Ministers this week proposed new learning and skills initiatives but have offered no extra funding to support them. Baroness Blackstone, further and higher education minister, announced a system of "...
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Can do kendo
Can do kendo: Cheltenham and Gloucester college of higher education students Yuichiro Kishigami and Sotaro Honda who won the Mumeishi Threes international clubs competition at kendo - Japanese sword...
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NHS students bring better funding
The University of Central England in Birmingham is to stop recruiting extra full-time students funded by the funding councils to avoid bad debt and bureaucracy. Over the next four years, it will...
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Blunkett sets goals for skills council
The government has laid out its spending plans and targets for the new Learning and Skills Council, which takes control of post-16 education and training from April. The LSC's £5.5 billion grant for...
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Oxbridge statistics point to class bias
Accusations of elitism at Cambridge and Oxford resurfaced this week as the latest figures revealed that, proportionately, white public school boys still stand a far better chance than any other group...
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Chatham House loses first female director
Chris Gamble, the first female director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, is to resign just two years after taking the job. Dr Gamble, who is leaving to spend more...
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Dropout rate hits nursing targets
Universities and colleges must improve clinical placements and cut dropout rates if they are to meet targets for increasing the number of student nurses, according to a report from the Royal College...