Coventry lures women with free science offer
Coventry University is hoping to lure more women to study science and technology by offering a free part-time course that could lead into a degree. The expenses-paid access programme offered by the...
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Wellcome and partners to create genetic pool
A new Pounds 28 million collaborative initiative to create a public database of genetic markers was launched this week by the Wellcome Trust and a consortium of ten pharmaceutical companies. The...
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Wales invests in researchers
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is concerned that an improved performance in the 1996 research assessment exercise by Welsh universities was "achieved in part at the expense of...
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Joint law course hits buffers
Dons have shelved plans to run a legal practice course in the University of Cambridge's law faculty after strong opposition to the idea, writes Harriet Swain. Kevin Gray, former chairman of the...
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AUT to ballot on strike
Ballot papers on strike action will go out to lecturers in old universities next week after their union rejected a final pay offer of 3.5 per cent. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association...
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Mature student numbers fall again
The number of applications for university places has fallen again. Figures for the second applications deadline of March 24 are down by 2.5 per cent on last year, the University and Colleges...
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Report raises concerns over part-time lecturers
Serious doubts exist about whether institutions manage their part-time staff responsibly, according to a report commissioned by the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education....
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Part-time lecturers
Natfhe has written to every new university vice-chancellor calling on them to address chronic insecurity among part-time lecturers. The union has threatened to seek consultation on redundancy of...
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The Hague
There will be too few students in the Netherlands by 2003 to meet labour market demand, the Dutch Socio-Economic Council has said. It recommends encouraging older people to return to education....
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Stephen Byers
Stephen Byers He may be famous for telling a radio interviewer that eight times seven was 54 but Stephen Byers has proved there is little wrong with his political calculations. Indeed, a panel of...
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Rector's tale of Belgrade bombing
In an email interview, Jagos Puric, rector of Belgrade University, tells David Jobbins of the university's response to Nato raids against Serbia. All possible steps have been taken to verify its...
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Science must be more commercial
The need to commercialise science generated by public sector research establishments, including research council institutes, was placed at the forefront of the government's technology-transfer agenda...
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Merger saves college name
The government's tough new rules on use of the university college title have been slammed by a principal whose college is merging with a university to save its name. Robert Withers, principal of...
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Survey supports Cornish uni
Cornwall is on course for a new university, according to results of a consultants' survey to be made public next month, writes Harriet Swain. Final drafts of a demand survey carried out by...
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Education looms large in battle for Wales
Welsh nationalists have promised a flagship Welsh-language university if they are successful in the elections for the National Assembly next month. Plaid Cymru, which is expected to be the second...