Privatising knowledge
While it is always good news to see new funding provided for research, there is still something not quite right with the government's emphasis on collaboration with business and "the ability to turn...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Andrew Oswald suggested that governments should measure people's happiness rather than the country's gross domestic product Andrew Oswald proposes an index of the "gross...
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It doesn't add up
David Singmaster calls for an inquiry into Keele University's sale of a collection of old maths books From 1968 until recently, Keele University housed England's leading collection of old mathematics...
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Pass the temazepam, please
Maverick of the Year Peter Knight mulls over why academics have become so acquiescent An unexpected end to 1998. I have won a ballot for the distinguished title of Maverick of the Year. The title is...
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'Old boys' hold on to research funding
United Kingdom research councils spent less than 5 per cent of their higher education budgets in former polytechnics and colleges of higher education last year. The rest went to old universities....
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Scientists greet Byers
Barely a week after launching his much-hyped Competitiveness white paper, Peter Mandelson, the trade and industry secretary, has gone, replaced by ex-academic Stephen Byers. Mr Byers's arrival at the...
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Physicist joins 007 for latest mission
A lecturer at one of the country's leading universities has been recruited to advise the secret service, The THES can reveal. The Imperial College physicist is passing detailed weapons information to...
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Koestler bust removed
Complaints from female students at Edinburgh University have led to the removal of a bronze bust of writer and philosopher Arthur Koestler. The students became uneasy after learning that Koestler had...
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Power players for the regions
Phil Baty looks at who has made it on to the RDA boards Five vice-chancellors and two college principals are among the 117 board members of the nine new regional development agencies. Ministers, who...
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Belgrade
Belgrade University's philology faculty has temporarily reinstated academics suspended for refusing to sign "loyalty" contracts under the new Higher Education Act.
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Pounds 10,000 for chemistry extravaganza
Salford University's department of chemistry has won Pounds 10,000 from the Millennium Awards Scheme for a chemistry extravaganza to attract more than 2,000 secondary pupils by involving them in a...
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V-cs impede colleges' bid for extra cash
Further education college heads have accused university vice-chancellors of hampering their bids for new higher education money. They claim that higher education funding chiefs are handicapping...
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Fifth Framework budgets approved
The breakdown of funds for the European Union's multibillion pound Fifth Framework research programme - due to kick off in February - has been agreed at a meeting of European research ministers. They...
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Woodhead limit 'will undermine research'
The push by the chief inspector of schools to limit educational research to work of direct relevance to teacher training and government policy threatens to undermine the development of new...
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OU bids twice for new medical students
Universities keen to cash in on the biggest expansion in medical education since the 1960s must this week confirm their intention to bid for 1,000 extra places. Among the bidders will be the Open...