Cancer unit at Cambridge opens in 2001
Part of the Medical Research Council's new money will go to establishing a new cancer unit in Cambridge. The unit, to be run jointly by the MRC and the Cancer Research Campaign, aims to bridge the...
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Computer brain unit opens
A major research centre on the brain opened at University College London, this week. It will perform highly theoretical research. The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, which will employ 100...
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Dispute leaves staff penniless
More than 30 nurse tutors formerly based at the University of Portsmouth are without salaries or redundancy pay and are unlikely to get either before Christmas because of a dispute between the...
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Golden hellos to lure recruits to teaching
Graduates laid off from jobs in industry are being offered the chance to retrain as maths and science teachers as part of the government's Pounds 130 million bid to tackle the slump in teaching...
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Committee starts work on extra medic places
The group responsible for allocating 1,000 additional medical school places met for the first time this week to consider criteria for awarding the new places. The joint Department of Health/Higher...
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Lawyers add up
(Photograph) - Gregor Rolfe (left), Alison Bissett, David Boyd and Mala Sawhney are among the first entrants to two law courses launched by Dundee University for "millennium careers". Dundee, which...
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Natfhe rattles sabres
Strikes against proposals to increase further education teaching hours could hit colleges early next year and undermine the government's lifelong learning plans, the country's biggest lecturing union...
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College drop-outs blame institutions
"The course was totally different to the explanation in the prospectus" - former business studies student. As the debate over student drop-out rates intensifies in the run-up to the publication of...
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Natfhe angered over Hefce diploma plan
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds should be encouraged to do degrees as well as diplomas according to university and college lecturers' union Natfhe in its response to proposals made by the...
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Government revises post-16 education cost report
Objections by training and enterprise councils have forced the government to revise a report showing that further education colleges are the cheapest means of delivering post-16 education. The TEC...
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Fund plan may split colleges
Changes in higher education funding could discourage collaboration between universities and colleges to the detriment of widening participation, vice-chancellors told MPs this week, Alan Thomson...
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Women's lib
(Photograph) - Miriam Alman, a member of the managing committee of the Sybil Campbell Library, which reopened at Great James Street, London, after a six-year relocation programme. Founded by the...
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Welsh skills shortage fuels working-class student drive
The Welsh Office this week announced plans to create more than 10,000 university places, primarily for people from working-class backgrounds, in Wales over the next five years. The drive to combat...
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A job's just part of the course
Nearly two-thirds of students are expected to take on part-time work this term. Harriet Swain reports Only a few years ago, many universities would throw students out if they caught them taking paid...
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A new super telescope
Astronomers at Queen's University, Belfast, are redefining the position of the edge of the solar system using a new camera on the Isaac Newton telescope in the Canary Islands. "There has been an...