Scottish colleges get Pounds 10m extra
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, is promoting wider access with a Pounds 10 million award to further education colleges. Mr McLeish announced the "completely...
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RCA struts its stuff
There was not an elbow patch in sight at the Royal College of Art's postgraduate fashion show last week, the annual occasion when academia's better dressed members get to mix comfortably with the...
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Fears that post-16 bill will be rushed
Radical reforms in post-16 education and training may be delayed or have to be rushed through without being thoroughly thought out, politicians have warned. The Learning and Skills Bill, which has...
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Victory for film student
A black student who claims he was unfairly removed from his degree course after blowing the whistle on racism and mismanagement at the London Institute has had an appeal against his exclusion upheld...
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Go-it-alone employers have lecturers' union baying for blood
The Association of University Teachers says it has lost faith in the Universities and Colleges Employers Association because it has unilaterally imposed this year's 3 per cent pay offer with no "...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to: research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this...
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World awaits answer to $400m gene question
Researchers around the world are set to announce on Monday the completion of 90 per cent of one of the most exciting projects in the history of science: the sequencing of the human genome. Costing...
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Vanguard digs deep into data at Oxford
This is the genetic coalface. If the sequencing of the human genome is charting all the rich seams and deposits of our DNA, it is in such cutting-edge institutes as the Wellcome Trust Centre for...
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Queen's Birthday honours
Knights. Anthony Atkinson, warden of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, for services to economics; Roderick MacSween, former president of the Royal College of Pathologists and chairman of the...
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National teaching fellowships scheme
The Institute for Learning and Teaching has announced the award of 20 fellowships, worth Pounds 50,000 each, jointly funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department for...
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Eyewitness
Mexico's "perfect dictatorship" could end next month. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa coined the phrase to describe the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) 71-year rule, which combines...
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Minsk
Alaksandr Lukashenko, president of Belarus, has told university rectors that he is putting this year's higher education entrance exams under his personal control through specially appointed monitors...
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Concepcion
Two Chilean students were arrested outside the Universidad de Concepci"n last week during protests at a reduction of up to 50 per cent in their winter vacation. On the other side of the city, police...
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One dies in police raid on campus
One student has died and others were injured as Kenyan riot police intercepted 400 students at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. The students had stormed the offices of a...
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Fury as Rio festa called off
Students at Rio de Janeiro's Pontificia Universidade Cat"lica are hopping mad over the university's decision to cancel this year's June festa. PUC rector, Father Jesus Hortal, told the daily...