Media graduates fail to make headlines
Only 15 per cent of media graduates gain jobs in the media, although 70 per cent of them find some kind of employment in the UK, with around 2 per cent working abroad and 11 per cent believed to be...
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Human cloning is rejected
Cloning humans for reproductive purposes was rejected this week by a joint report from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Genetics Advisory Committee, but they have left...
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Foresight programme's blueprint
* The blueprint for the Foresight programme's next round will be published next week. A second round of Link awards is also expected to be launched.
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Punch lines
(Photograph) - Viv Gee, tutor for Strathclyde University's stand-up comedy course, listens as Arnold Rabinowitz rehearses his end-of-course performance. Photograph: Tom Finnie/Atom.
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LSE keeps increase down to 3.5 per cent
Academics at the London School of Economics have backed down on a proposal to increase tuition fees for some postgraduates by 30 per cent. Members of the school's academic planning and resources...
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Worm turns into a breakthrough
British and US scientists published the first genetic blueprint of an animal this week - a one millimetre long, transparent worm. Containing fewer than 1,000 cells, it is the first complex...
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Association signs up to lecturing agency
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has signed a national agreement with the agency Education Lecturing Services. Lecturers working with ELS will receive national minimum fee rates, enhanced...
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AUT demands 10 per cent pay rise
* The Association of University Teachers has called for a 10 per cent pay increase next year as the first step towards closing a 36 per cent decline in pay since 1981. The claim, to be confirmed by...
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Man charged with degree forgery
Police have arrested a man for selling counterfeit degree certificates through the internet. After a ten-month inquiry, Merseyside police seized computer equipment and fake exam certificates from a...
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Recruiting drive for 700,000 extra students
Colleges are expected to recruit almost as many extra students in 2000 as in the previous three years. The Department for Education and Employment has told the Further Education Funding Council that...
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Expansion gives rich pickings to colleges
Further education colleges have added to last week's Pounds 725 million windfall by becoming beneficiaries of a Pounds 776 million cash boost for higher education. Education secretary David Blunkett...
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Councils act to level research field
The funding councils are to modify the research assessment exercise yet again - this time to ensure that interdisciplinary research is fairly treated. Half of university researchers think that the...
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Picasso and peace
(Photograph) - The Bernal Picasso, the only mural Picasso drew in England, was unveiled at Birkbeck College this week to mark the start of the college's 175th anniversary celebrations. The work,...
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Green high-tech wins awards
Proposals for green alternatives to cement and ice skates are among the 18 winners of the new government Foresight Link awards. The awards, which were launched at the end of last year, are the first...
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Engineers furious as faculties face axe
At least two civil engineering departments at London universities face closure, with the loss of five or more academic jobs. Falling student numbers in the subject and new regulations from the...