EPSRC conference
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will be holding a conference on postgraduate research in electronics, photonics and related fields at the University of Manchester Institute of...
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UK lobby seizes Euro initiative
For the first time in negotiations over Euro-research there is an articulate voice speaking for those most actively involved - the researchers themselves. Researchers funded through the EU's Marie...
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Weapons disposal launches into profit
A submarine rocket launch in Russia could point the way to a new means of getting rid of Cold war weaponry that brings in a profit instead of costing money. Scientists from the Technical University...
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Board invites arts bid for cash
GRANTS of up to Pounds 500,000 will be given to research projects by the new Arts and Humanities Research Board if plans are approved in the autumn. Researchers will be able to ask for a maximum...
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Patronage under fire
A CAMBRIDGE University don imprisoned for knowingly distributing HIV-infected blood in the 1993 French blood and Aids scandal was again at the centre of a controversy this week as it emerged that the...
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Manchester to become computer superpower
A Pounds 26-million supercomputer service funded and managed under a private finance initiative will go to Manchester University. The machine will be based on Silicon Graphics' latest T3E-1200E...
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Asia crisis hits student subsidy
THE FINANCIAL crisis in Asia is likely to force New Zealand to renege on a plan to boost university and polytechnic spending by $NZ103 million (Pounds 33 million). Prime minister Jenny Shipley said a...
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Puttnam to lead Nesta
THE film-maker and Labour peer Lord Puttnam is to head the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Nesta has received Pounds 200 million from the National Lottery.
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1997/98 reveal that: * Ethnic minorities make up 12.8 per cent of all first-year United Kingdom domiciled students * Women made up 54.2 per cent...
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Growth likely to wipe out cash gains
The Comprehensive Spending Review means a 1 per cent per capita cut in real terms for higher and further education. HIGHER EDUCATION Vice-chancellors have declared that the government's spending...
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Correction
LAST week The THES incorrectly reported that the European Commission was proposing a "fivefold" increase in its support for biotechnology research under Framework V. The increase is, in fact, 50 per...
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Oxford chemists spin again
A CHEMICAL software company, Oxford Molecular, created by researchers at the University of Oxford is to launch a Pounds 2.5 million spin-off firm. MicroGenics will help develop a series of...
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Millions lost on patent
SOUTHAMPTON University has lost out on hundreds of millions of pounds in royalties on a breakthrough optical fibre technology because of loose patenting and lack of commercial nous. The technology is...
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Students foot bill for growth
STUDENTS and not the government are funding the bulk of a Pounds 280 million cash boost for universities that still leaves institutions with an overall per capita cut. Claims by the government this...
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Union chiefs go halfway to cross-binary merger
UNION chiefs agreed this week to set up two new staff bodies, based separately in higher and further education and joined together in a federation. The agreement, made by representatives of the...