Space agency details solar wind flight
Details of Cluster II, the rerun of the European Space Agency's ill-fated mission to study the interaction between Sun and Earth, were revealed this week. The mission involves four identical...
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Conference calls for full funding
Alan Thomson reports from the Liberal Democrat conference in Harrogate The conference called for the full funding of the Bett committee recommendations on academic salaries and an independent pay...
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Strasbourg
MEP Neil MacCormick, a professor of public law at Edinburgh University, is pressing the European Commission for urgent action over the long-running case of job discrimination against 1,500 foreign-...
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Brisbane
Queensland, Australia, plans to invest Aus$0 million (Pounds 108 million) over ten years to make the state the "biotechnology hub of the Asia Pacific region". Aus$20 million is earmarked for new...
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Focus on hardship, not fees
SCOTLAND. Jane Denholm welcomes Scotland's debate on student privation, but says abolishing fees would not solve the problem and would benefit only those who are well-off. In the past six months,...
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National bureau for students with disabilities
* The contact number given last week for SKILL, the national bureau for students with disabilities, should have read 020 7450 0620.
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Scrap PGCE, save BEd
So primary teaching yet again is seen as being unimportant and not worth funding ("Future bleak for four-year BEds", THES, September 17). How blind can we be? The very foundations of our education...
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CVCP president sets out regional agenda for unis
Alan Thomson reports from the Liberal Democrat conference in Harrogate Vice-chancellor Howard Newby has defended universities' role in regional economies against claims that many remain ivory towers...
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Study blasts bastions of bigotry
Gay and bisexual university lecturers are suffering intolerance and discrimination from colleagues up to the highest levels, a study revealed this week. Alan Skelton of Sheffield University's higher...
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York angers union with military invite
York University has angered its student union by allowing the campus air squadron to recruit during freshers week. In a motion passed last year, the union stated: "Allowing the armed forces on to...
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Colleges welcome cash windfall
All but 4 per cent of colleges have reaped the rewards of one of the government's most generous pay-outs, the Further Education Funding Council for England confirmed this week. But colleges have been...
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Demos predicts rivalry over who teaches
A restructuring of school and university education is proposed this week by the think-tank Demos. In The Creative Age, co-author Kimberley Seltzer says the emphasis on qualifications must be reduced...
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Food poisoning expert calls for lab reprieve
MSPs have called for a reprieve of national references laboratories, which study E. coli and the food poisoning bacterium, Campylobacter, that are threatened by the removal of the Scottish Executive'...
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Pounds 8,000 hello needed to lure trainee teachers
Golden hellos of Pounds 5,000 will be offered to high-flying graduates who join the teaching profession, education secretary David Blunkett has confirmed. But the Liberal Democrats said this week...
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Last-ditch attempt to save Hinxton Hall plan
Officials from the Wellcome Trust and South Cambridgeshire district council met last Tuesday to discuss the Hinxton Hall genome campus planning dispute. The meeting was a final bid to save the Pounds...