Future launched with plans to join NUS race
Conservative undergraduates will fight National Union of Student elections for the first time in years following the launch of the party's new youth wing. The group is a new beginning for up to 5,000...
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Bond issue secures Greenwich future
Greenwich University has secured Pounds 30 million to transform the Royal Naval College through a high-powered international finance deal unique in higher education. The university has banked the...
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Dobson re-opens nurses' wounds
Nurse training is up in the air again following remarks by health secretary Frank Dobson suggesting that entry to the profession will be shifted from an academic route. The Department of Health said...
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Too many first-class degrees, Essex told
Essex University has been awarding too many first-class degrees and it cannot properly justify its claims to "the highest quality, judged by international standards", inspectors have warned....
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Old days were shorter
'Comets are hammering through the inner solar system at a constant rate. This proves that previous suppositions were incorrect' Modern astronomers are using ancient and mediaeval records to map...
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Hairdriers make you forget for a while
Using a hairdrier could damage your short-term memory - but it recovers as soon as the device is switched off, say researchers at the University of Bristol. Alan Preece and his colleagues conducted...
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Drug addiction linked to availability
When cocaine is readily available, people are more likely to become addicts rather than mere drug users, researchers have found. Scientists gave rats access to cocaine. One group had an hour's access...
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Downturn or turned off?
David Blunkett is worried that mature students are being put off by fees. But the decline in acceptances could be down to demography. Natasha Loder reports. A startling decline in the numbers of...
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FEFC acts on complaint
Funding council investigators are examining Whistleblowers' revelations that managers at Matthew Boulton College have contravened the rules of college governance. The Further Education Funding...
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One-man band brings 15 cases to tribunals
Whistleblowers is following with interest a one-man campaign to keep university personnel managers on their toes. After being turned down for a senior lectureship at the University of Central England...
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Cambridge wins day's costs at price of two
Cambridge University successfully recovered a day's legal costs in its battle with lecturer Gill Evans in the High Court last week - but only at the cost of an extra two days in court. Dr Evans has...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Action Research Promotes research into disability, with an...
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Dutch plug gap with English
The Dutch are excellent speakers of English. However, the idea of being taught in English was unheard of until recently. Students might read mostly English textbooks but they spoke and wrote in Dutch...
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Office move
Sue Peacock has left the CTI Support Service to run the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association administration in its new home at Oxford University. The association's members are...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. Conference season is over at last! I have just returned from the fifth Symposium on Electronic Noses, held in Baltimore this year. There were about 200 people there - manufacturers,...