Impoverished students launch rights charter
* Students across the country are today protesting against growing hardship and new tuition costs with the launch of the Student Rights Charter. The National Union of Students said hardship was now...
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Lottery fund gives Pounds 32 million for 66 schemes
* The Heritage Lottery Fund this week announced 66 new grants totalling Pounds 32 million. This brings the number of projects backed by the fund to 2,188 with a combined value of Pounds 1.15 billion...
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Ofsted attacked for 'stressing out' schools
* Academics have attacked the inspection service Ofsted, saying that it leaves many schools so stressed that it takes them months to recover. Members of a team researching school inspections since...
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Institute of Learning to have good connections
* The Institute for Learning and Teaching will probably be based in York, the Standing Conference of Principals will hear next week. "We are anxious that the ILT is seen as a UK body, and York has...
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400 en suite studies to be built at Plymouth
* A new Pounds 9 million development of more than 400 en suite study bedrooms is to be built at the University of Plymouth in a partnership with Jarvis plc, a construction, property and facilities...
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Soap powder firm gives Pounds 500,000 for complex
* Consumer goods firm Procter and Gamble this week donated Pounds 500,000 to Royal Holloway, University of London, to help build a Pounds 1.8 million sports complex at the college's Egham campus,...
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NUS gets Stirling's vote of confidence
* Stirling University students have voted to stay in the National Union of Students. More than a fifth of the university's students voted in the referendum and 73 per cent of these voted to stay in...
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St Andrews to fight rape claim student
* St Andrews University has announced its "firm intention" to defend any action brought against it by former student Erin MacLean, who says she was raped while on an exchange course in the Ukraine in...
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Argentina and Britain sign education treaties
* Carlos Menem, president of Argentina, has today approved six new treaties with Britain to improve cooperation in science and education. They include a Pounds 2 million, ten-year Argentine studies...
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Women claimed to have part of brain missing
* Male graduates are twice as likely to find themselves unemployed as females, a conference heard this week. Delegates at the Institute of Personnel and Development's annual gathering were told that...
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Retraining money to benefit British workers
* British workers at risk of redundancy may benefit from a Pounds 160 million European investment to help them retrain. Employment minister Andrew Smith revealed this week that Britain is well on the...
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Biotech wizard warns against City sharks
Biotechnology entrepreneur Chris Evans has warned that a fizzling out of the City's enthusiasm for science-based companies could slash the value of established biotechnology companies and new spin-...
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Innovative firms grow at a faster rate than non-innovators
* A survey by the Office for National Statistics has found that innovative firms grow at a faster rate than non-innovators. Large companies are also three times as likely to be innovators as small...
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Contest for venture capital funds heats up
The first round of the new university challenge fund has attracted 45 entries to date, science minister Lord Sainsbury told a Royal Society conference this week, writes Julia Hinde. He said that more...
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Scientists get richer pickings
The Medical Research Council is the big winner in the science budgets for the next three years as the government ploughs more funds into genome research. The increase in funding for the MRC, which...