Sainsbury searches for industry growth
* Science minister Lord Sainsbury has announced the government is to step up efforts to promote industrial "hot spots". Building on a study of "clustering" in biotechnology, the initiative aims to...
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Rolls-Royce looks for skills partners
* Aerospace giant Rolls-Royce will today signal a fundamental rethink of its relationship with universities and colleges in an effort to overcome an acute skills shortage. At a conference in Coventry...
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Support swells for 'God Save the Queen'
* Patriotic lecturers at the University of Leeds are standing up for the national anthem after it was dropped from degree ceremonies last summer because of the large number of overseas students to...
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Russian military brains probe heart of matter
n Russian former military scientists will be putting their expertise into the investigation of the nature of matter in a ground-breaking Pounds 4.8 million contract signed with the European particle...
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Sources for research funding
INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER (IARC) www.iarc.fr Postdoctoral Fellowships The IARC is offering five postdoctoral fellowships to junior scientists with experience in a research area...
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Get students to run the show
WHAT. Dave Shaw describes how his final-year psychology undergraduates taught themselves about sport. WHY. Students have knowledge, experience, resources and presentation skills that more traditional...
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Agony aunt
Q) 'I have been given a bottle of champagne as a millennium gift from a student and am wondering, should I accept it?' Seiriol Morgan. Philosophy teaching fellow University of Leeds. A) If a gift is...
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Principals push for the higher cause locally
* Scottish principals this week launched a strong bid to persuade MSPs of higher education's importance in local economic development. The Scottish Parliament's powerful enterprise and lifelong...
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Sex bias in science risks legal challenge
(Photograph) - * Universities that discriminate against women may be denied European research funds, according to the vice-chairman of the European Parliament's research committee. Nuala Ahern (...
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UfI rebranded as 'learndirect'
* The University for Industry is now called "learndirect", it was revealed this week at the launch of the first 68 of the 1,000 drop-in learning centres to be fully operational by autumn 2000. The...
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Schools' A-level point scores beat colleges'
* School sixth forms outperform colleges in this year's official government 16 to 18-year-olds' performance tables, fuelling college claims that schools push their "rejects" into local colleges to...
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Sixth-formers get taste of university life
* More inner-city secondary pupils will get a taste of university life in a new summer school network next year. About 5,000 sixth-formers will next summer attend such universities as Oxford,...
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Caribbean men's progress
* Caribbean men need half a year longer in education on average to achieve the same goals as white men and have fewer degrees than other ethnic groups, according to an 11-year survey by Essex...
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Eagleton vs Spivak
Is it necessary to crank up Terry Eagleton's unpleasant animosity towards Gayatri Spivak ("More craic, less Spivak", THES, November 19)? The wonderful mistake in the contents page announcing that...
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Research shot down
The article investigating PhD drop-outs using a sample of "successful doctoral candidates" ("Doctorates: why so many give up", THES, November 19) reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story about an...