Student numbers down in the Welsh valleys
Mature students, mostly studying part-time, make up almost half of all higher education students in Wales. A report on participation by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales found that in...
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Ofsted methods are unpopular with colleges
Ofsted, the schools standards watchdog which is to take lead responsibility for the inspection of all post-16 provision next year, appears to favour measures unpopular with colleges, according to the...
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Centre to focus on super-bugs and cancer
A Pounds 50 million science centre was officially opened at University College London on Monday. The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research will bring together 250 experts in a former Victorian...
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Professor James Mitchell
We have been asked by Professor James Mitchell to point out that he does not, as we implied (THES, April 7 2000), think the appointment of a director of the Economic and Social Research Council's...
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THES on the web
United Kingdom universities are ranked by 12 different indicators inthis year's THES league tables. Not just a where-to-study guide, the tables provide a snapshot of the fast-changing HE sector....
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Next week
NEWS. How social work is losing out. FEATURES. Tim Cornwell reports on the students campaigning against the use of Third World sweatshops. BOOKS. Mark Kidel reviews Nicholas Fox Weber's biography of...
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The men with their fingers on the pulse
Improvedcareer prospects and the ability to show a caring side are turning men to nursing. Claire Sanders reports. Jonathan Shaw was attracted to nursing by the prospect of a structured career. After...
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Thinkers may get control of ideas
Thousands of civil service researchers could have their contracts amended to allow them to make money from commercialising intellectual property generated by their work. Whitehall sources said the...
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Scotland scores first with virtual conference
Peter Helms's bedside manner leaves a lot to be desired. Aberdeen University's professor of child health ignores a young mother as she struggles into his clinic with a baby and pushchair, refuses to...
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High-tech star to lead Stanford
A computer scientist and engineer who started his own high-tech company and has a record of coaxing huge donations out of California's Silicon Valley has been chosen as the next president of Stanford...
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Unchartered waters
The Chartered Institute for Management Accountants launched a new qualification designed to address e-business demands at a London conference last Friday. The institute plans to ensure its members...
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Talent scouts
The Talent Foundation, backed by the Royal Society for the Arts, has published an e-talent declaration, already signed by leading public and private organisations. The declaration sets out a vision...
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IT doesn't crash
British and Swiss scientists have developed a robot with an electronic visual system based on that of a locust, enabling it to behave like a swarming insect and avoid collisions with objects. Claire...
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European first
The Instituto de Empresa in Spain has become Europe's first management school to introduce a complete degree in e-business. The course, oversubscribed more than eight times, is already one of the...
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Best foot forward
(Photograph) - Best foot forward: as old business models buckle under the onslaught of a commerce, lecturers at Hull Business School are developing a course to help students develop ways of tackling...