Sir Anthony Cleaver
Sir Anthony Cleaver, chairman of science and engineering innovation company AEA Technology, will take over as MRC chairman in October, when Sir David Plaistow retires.
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Data bank
Twelve African universities are now participating in the World Bank's African Virtual University project, receiving live lectures from Ireland and the United States.
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Signal achievement
The winners of a Pounds 60,000 student prize for designs using Texas Instruments digital signal processing components will be announced on Tuesday. Teams from Italy, Singapore and the United States...
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Midlands focus
(Photograph) - Birmingham and Aston Universities are planning a closer working relationship to capitalise on matching provision and develop expertise such as that of Aston's optometry and vision...
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Funding withdrawn as partnership collapses
A RESEARCH council grant has been withdrawn from a joint project at Cambridge and Bristol universities following the collapse of their partnership. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...
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Anglia to drop 'poly' and go east
ANGLIA Polytechnic University is to apply for a new name to shake off confusion over its status. Governors, staff and students have "almost unanimously" agreed to scrap the word "polytechnic" from...
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British best in Europe
BRITISH universities score best across Europe in a large-scale comparison of universities in 15 European countries by the German news magazine Der Spiegel. But while they dominated the top ten in all...
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Scots eye wider intake
Glasgow Caledonian University last week hosted two major events aimed at increasing the numbers of students from less affluent backgrounds. The first of a series of seminars on the Committee of Vice-...
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Postcode formula addresses access
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has unveiled a new calculation of higher education partipation which it hopes will help concentrate wider access efforts on areas of greatest need,...
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Expert challenges egalitarian claims
An expert in education statistics has challenged the Garrick Committee's claim that Scotland has had more success than the rest of the United Kingdom in attracting students from the lower...
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Fee waiver for successful A-level appellants
Tuition fees will be waived for a further small group of students this year, ministers have confirmed. The waiver will apply to any student who failed to get into university in 1997, the last year of...
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Blunkett stresses wider access ambition
David Blunkett has reaffirmed the government's commitment to extending access among under-represented groups. Answering questions after delivering the keynote speech to the London School of Economics...
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Scottish colleges ill-prepared for debt
Virtually all of Scotland's further education colleges are forecast to have an operating deficit this year, but only a minority have set out explicit strategies to improve their financial health, the...
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Royal observatory sheds 50 staff
Almost 50 staff at the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Cambridge were this week issued with redundancy notices as the 323-year-old observatory begins to run down. Twenty employees have already left...
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Two sides of the argument
THES reporters round up some of the latest industrial tribunal cases in universities and colleges A Paisley University dean has vowed to clear his name after being sacked following an investigation...