Investors lured to aid research
A Pounds 4.2 million investment fund for small science and technology-based companies seeks to commercialise university research. The QTP fund, based in Oxford and Cambridge, is backed by the the...
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London nurtures art talent
Universities, colleges and arts bodies are forming a partnership to tap artistic talent in London. The London Institute and London Arts Board are leading partners in a project to expand educational...
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Watchdog plugs anti-bully code
Universities need to do more to address problems of harassment and bullying that could lead to hefty court awards against them, higher education chiefs have been warned. While most universities have...
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Inspectors 'hold back innovation'
The government must relax its obsession with standards in higher education for universities and colleges to compete globally, a Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals conference will hear next...
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Devolution could hurt science
Scotland must remain a well integrated part of the United Kingdom science, engineering and technology base following devolution, according to a report published this week, writes Julia Hinde. The...
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Eye-catching
(Photograph) - Artist Humphrey Ocean has his eye tracked as he draws. He has teamed up with scientist John Tchalenko to try to find out how a painter paints. 'Activation occurred in the right frontal...
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Nursing research seeks more cash
Investment in nursing research must keep pace with the new and enhanced role of nurses, a conference will hear this week. Christine Hancock, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, was...
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Training growth may lay foundations to new medical school
The expansion of England's medical education sector could result in the United Kingdom's first new medical school in nearly 30 years, as well as almost 1,000 extra student places, writes Julia Hinde...
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An appeal for young doctors
Guys, King's and St Thomas's School of Medicine in London - already the UK's biggest medical school - is bidding for an extra 30 places, which it will use to target local school children. The medical...
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V-cs slam Scots fee anomaly
Vice-chancellors across the country have condemned the "inequitable iniquity" of English, Welsh and Northern Irish students paying tuition fees for the fourth year of a Scottish degree, while...
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A failed probation
Was award-winning Holocaust historian Steve Paulsson removed by Leicester University for incompetence or was he discriminated against because of his outspoken views, his disability or his...
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Assembly and academia must serve each other
The Welsh Assembly should give higher education new, larger roles to help the region, says Brian Smith. "Nerth gwlad ei gwybodaeth" ("A nation's strength is in its learning"). This message is carved...
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The delicate web that ties research together
Universities in the UK get more than Pounds 2.6 billion a year for research. The mainstay is the funding and research councils, which provide just over half of this cash. But, despite the recent...
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Top of the heap
I much enjoyed the article on the award of "the country's first doctorate in composting" ("Where there's muck there's a doctorate", THES, March 19). My interest will somehow need to be conveyed to my...
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Ins and outcomes
In common with other university staff I have spoken to, I am appalled at the recent consultation document from the Institute for Learning and Teaching. From the start membership of this institute was...