Exam scores to reflect effects of bomb hoaxes
Two hoax bomb scares that disrupted a group of final exam students have been taken into account in their assessments. The first bomb scare at the examination centre of the Chartered Institute of...
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Gates gives UK schools $40m for malaria fight
Liverpool's School of Tropical Medicine is to work with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on a $40 million anti-malaria programme funded entirely by the Bill and Melinda Gates...
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Balloonatic
Leanne Kovacs, a media studies student at Wolverhampton College, recently spent three weeks on work placement at the Virgin Airship and Balloon Company in Telford. Photograph by JAMIE JONES
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NHS challenge set to tax universities
The National Health Service Plan, published last week, proposes the biggest expansion in medical education in a generation. Claire Sanders looks at the implications for institutions Expanding the...
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World watch
Two-thirds of almost 1 million students who passed Turkey's university entrance examination will not get a place because of a lack of space. The record number of disappointed students are being...
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Sherlock to lead Adult Learning Inspectorate
(Photograph) - David Sherlock (pictured) was this week appointed chief executive of the new Adult Learning Inspectorate. The inspectorate, which will start operation on April 1 2001, will bring...
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Wye College moves into Imperial ranks
Wye College in Kent, which is known for its research-led teaching in the biological, environmental and agricultural sciences, merged with Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine in London...
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Ethics at risk in new economy, dean warns
Unbridled pursuit of the knowledge economy can clash with the values of scholarship that should underpin universities, Bart McGettrick, dean of the University of Glasgow's faculty of education, has...
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Graduate teacher plan starts with 400 places
The Teacher Training Agency has announced the allocation of the first 400 places on the new-style graduate teacher programme, in which teachers are trained in schools. The scheme provides a salary of...
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British Academy fears humanities exodus
The British Academy is to review graduate studies in the humanities and social sciences in light of evidence that many good students are going elsewhere. Addressing the annual general meeting of the...
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Long-term study into postgrad population
A graduate studies review committee of ten people, chaired by Robert Bennett, professor of geography at Cambridge University, will gather statistical data over ten years on the composition of the...
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Sponsors pay for study breaks in engineering
Postgraduate engineering students at De Montfort University will be eligible for sponsorship packages worth Pounds 16,000 as part of an attempt to tackle the worldwide shortage of engineers. Some...
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From Lizard King lover to professor of pop
Former flower-power devotee Sheila Whitely joined Salford University in 1991 as a music lecturer and has stayed on to fill its first chair in popular music. Britain's first professor of pop, who is...
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Nicol Stephen
In The THES of July 21 and July 28, we implied that Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, said Westminster had set a Pounds 10,000 earnings threshold for...
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Boom in degrees heralds job shift
More graduates will find themselves in non-traditional occupations over the next decade as the supply of highly qualified people looks set to outstrip demand, according to a survey of projected...