Reading opens door to dealing rooms
Reading University's business school will open next week a Pounds 2.5 million building for the financial markets complete with dealing rooms, writes Kam Patel. The building's costs were covered by...
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Employability courses attract cash
LARGE chunks of money accompany the more than 100 key skills projects that run across higher education. Many are concentrated in the new universities but some research-led institutions are also...
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Job skills may be added on
UNIVERSITIES should consider bolting on crash courses in skills that make students more employable, a government-commissioned report is to recommend. The courses could be part of a wider effort by...
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Mega-classes lead to new methods
LECTURERS are increasingly abandoning the lectern in favour of other teaching methods, according to the interim findings of a survey of universities. Harold Silver, who is conducting the survey for...
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Technology for art's sake gets share of Pounds 10m
THE third phase of a Pounds 10 million programme to develop technology for improving teaching in higher education is being announced this week, writes Alison Utley. Thirty-two new university projects...
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Cash boost could be more costly
The Association of Scottish Colleges has challenged the Scottish Office announcement of anPounds 8 million boost for further education, warning that colleges face the loss of almost Pounds 1.5...
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'Recipe for confusion'
Government proposals for Regional Development Agencies are "a recipe for confusion, duplication and frustration", the House of Commons select committee for education and employment said this week. "...
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Too fast is bad
The rapid expansion of franchised further education is damaging quality, college inspectors warned this week. Colleges' collaborative arrangements with private employers and community organisations...
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Bladders open to help fathom currents
A flotilla of "inflatable bladders" that helped map deep ocean currents has led oceanographers at Southampton University to discover defects in global weather forecasting computer models. Southampton...
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Breast milk danger
DANGEROUS levels of chemicals found in breast milk may trigger cancer, scientists have found. The chemical pollutants DDT (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane) and PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) have...
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Colour sight probed
How the brain perceives colour is under study by scientists at Keele University to help improve image transfer on the Internet and develop robotic vision. A team, led by Stephen Westland in the...
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Colour sites guide
Researchers at Reading University have completed a series of projects into how colour and tone contrast in the built environment can help partially sighted people navigate better and identify...
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Pasta detectives' deal
Scientists who found a way to detect pasta impostors have signed a licensing agreement with a national food diagnostics company. Kits for detecting poor-quality wheat substituted into durum wheat...
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Winds' effect on winters gauged
A transatlantic collaboration could soon be under way as scientists try to shine new light on the weather phenomenon responsible for bringing Britain its recent run of wet and warm winters. American...
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Breakdown of the cash
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has allocated Pounds 3,867million to institutions this year - representing a 2.7 per cent increase of public money in cash terms but a real-terms...