Origins as important as A levels
UNIVERSITIES should take account of where applicants have been to school and not just the qualifications they have achieved, higher education minister Tessa Blackstone said last week. Speaking to...
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Arts research council on way
THE FIRST step towards a research council for the arts was taken this week with the announcement of an Arts and Humanities Research Board. Money from the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Duke in battle of lights
Cambridge University chancellor, Prince Philip, has been called on to settle a five-year battle over plans to erect floodlights near the Institute of Astronomy, which scientists say will harm...
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In-house editor suspended
The editor of Middlesex University's in-house newspaper, billed as "the free voice of the university", has been suspended after a row over free speech, writes Phil Baty. Unison, the union...
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Council bypassed in Cambridge row
More than 70 academics at Cambridge University have rallied to usurp the governing council and try to end the dispute over "secretive and unfair" appointment procedures, writes Phil Baty. In an...
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Oxford trumpets science success
Oxford University has published a booklet to dispel its arts-bias image and highlight its science success. In the introduction, vice-chancellor Sir Colin Lucas, says: "Oxford is sometimes unfairly...
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Lottery awards to universities
The National Lottery has made awards worth Pounds 76 million to higher education projects. The THES lists winners to date, examines how grants have been won and looks at the overseas experience (In...
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Exhaust blow
(Photograph) - Exhaust blow: Cars fitted with catalytic converters to cut emissions of harmful gases may be polluting the environment with metals, say researchers from the University of Wales at...
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Wits chief puts heart in the city
AFRICA TWENTY-FIVE years ago, in a car travelling across the Pennines, two South African academics teaching in Manchester - one black, one white - swopped memories of childhood in the Eastern Cape....
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HEFCE offers cash to help costing
The Higher Education Funding Council for England will make grants of Pounds 15,000-Pounds 25,000 available to all higher education institutions in England over three years to improve costing...
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Criminal investigation into hate-mail
Police have opened a criminal investigation into a hate-mail campaign against six academics at Anglia Polytechnic University's business school. Five senior staff and one former member of staff, who...
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Science ministers to discuss Framework
European science ministers will meet in London next week to discuss management of the European Union's Framework programme of science research. The informal meeting comes as proposals for the Fifth...
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COSHEP elects Graham-Bryce convener
Ian Graham-Bryce, principal of Dundee University, has been elected convener of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals. He will succeed Richard Shaw, principal of Paisley University, on...
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Bath joins Swindon/Wiltshire project
The University of Bath and the University for Swindon and Wiltshire Project yesterday signed a formal partnership agreement. In September, full-time students will enrol on HND courses developed via...
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Colleges cough up Pounds 15m to help students
The "collapse" of local authority student support has forced colleges to find Pounds 15 million to help students, says an Association of Colleges survey. This year, more than 14 per cent of full-time...