Unqualified success
The enrolment of under-qualified students to Derby University's degree courses in Israel was systematic and widespread, new evidence reveals. The THES reported in June last year that, in order to...
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Head smashing caught on film
A technician working in an Oxford University laboratory has been secretly filmed smashing a mouse's head against a laboratory bench. The video shows the technician pick up the mouse by its tail and...
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Scots seek views on research cash
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council wants to know how its mainstream research funding method could be improved to help offer greater job security to more contract research staff. Shefc is...
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Peers differ over how skill bill will shift power
Opposition peers say the new learning and skills bill will aid a fundamental shift in political power in England. But while Conservatives believe it is paving the way for devolved regional government...
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ESRC shifts funds to research
Social science students wanting to take a stand-alone masters course will no longer receive support from the Economic and Social Research Council, it was announced this week. The ESRC board has...
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University autonomy welcomed by postgrad committee
The National Postgraduate Committee has welcomed proposals to give individual university departments responsibility for setting the number of postgraduate places and the stipend students receive,...
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Glasgow finds cash for cream
Glasgow University has created a Pounds 1.5 million bonanza for postgraduates by pooling an array of benefactions and endowments. The university will mark its 550th anniversary in 2001 by launching...
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Kuala Lumpur
Enrolments at Malaysia's private colleges, which are used to an average 10 per cent year-on-year rise in intakes, have fallen so far this year. The main causes are increasing competition from...
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Glasgow has unexpectedly won a further Pounds 1.5 million
Glasgow has unexpectedly won a further Pounds 1.5 million from three American benefactors. Publicity-shy William Lindsay from Las Vegas, who is not known to have any connection with either Glasgow or...
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Leaning tower is learning to be upright
The leaning tower of Pisa has stopped moving for the first time in its 800 year history. Last month, the Pisa authorities announced that La Torre had not shifted a single millimetre for four months....
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Rent-buy deal for Australian students
Australia's 700,000 university students have been offered their own new IBM computer, fully equipped and with free access to the internet for just A$9.50 (Pounds 3.65) a week. The National Union of...
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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 ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD www.ahrb.ac.uk Small...
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Unequal opportunities, a universitry challenge
Universities, by and large, badly serve the poor and minorities. Alison Goddard visits one trying hard to remove barriers and another struggling to attract non-traditional students Britain's...
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Don's diary
Monday Fly back from Turkey, nursing scraped knees and ankles from chasing a Loew's silver-studded blue down a cliff. Great holiday. Twelve new species of butterfly, five new birds. Children noisy on...
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Name the bridge burner
What courtier can be gambling with his career - and other peoples' - by whispering "top-up fees" into the ear of the prime minister, against the wishes of education ministers? Evan Harris, Liberal...