Food Standards Agency keen on campus labs
University researchers stand to gain as the new Food Standards Agency establishes its independence. The agency, due to come into operation at the end of 1999, is expected to have a Pounds 25 million...
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Less money for science
The science budget next year will be almost Pounds 30 million lower in real terms than this year as the government keeps to Conservative spending levels. The budget for 1998-99 is Pounds 1,338...
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Baroness Blackstone "optimistic" for further money for univerisities
Baroness Blackstone, higher education minister, told the House of Commons science and technology select committee this week that she was "optimistic" that the comprehensive spending review would...
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Staff fight expansion
GOVERNMENT ambitions for an extra 500,000 students in higher education by the millennium came under threat from lecturers yesterday. David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University...
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Scottish minister allays enrolment fears
THE government has rejected the claimed threat to Scottish universities caused by its tuition fee plans. Brian Wilson, Scottish Office minister for education and industry, told the Commons that fears...
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Queen's and Ulster face possible research cuts
Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Ulster have been warned of potential further cuts in government cash for research. Tony Worthington, the province's education minister, said: "They...
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National Audit Office eyes research councils
The National Audit Office is considering whether to investigate the management of grants by the government's research councils. Each year the NAO does 50 "value for money" studies of different areas...
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Oxford business school to displace rail station
A GRADE 2* listed railway station is to be moved to make way for Oxford University's Said Business School. The university is trying to find a heritage railway society site for the disused station,...
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Professors appointed to numeracy task force
Four out of the ten appointees to the government's Numeracy Task Force, aimed at raising school standards in arithmetic and maths, are professors, including chairman David Reynolds, professor of...
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MRC issues policy to combat misconduct
The Medical Research Council has published its new procedures for dealing with allegations of scientific misconduct. Though the council says allegations of scientific misconduct, including...
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MPs examine engineering innovation
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee is to launch an inquiry into engineering and physical sciences based innovation. It will look at how engineering firms choose which new products...
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EPSRC seeks proposals for industry link-up
Leading physics researchers in industry and academia are being brought together through three new networks funded with Pounds 150,000. The networks, covering quantum optics, liquid matter and soft...
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Debt and the diploma
June Wilson, a single parent in the first year of an administration and information management course at Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education, received her cheque at the end of October....
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OU wins reprieve
AN OPEN University teacher training course has failed part of its quality inspection by the Office for Standards in Education. But the Teacher Training Agency has decided not to withdraw funds. "The...
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Disability act plea
Vice-chancellors and lecturers' union leaders have been urged to put pressure on the government to include education in any new disability discrimination act. Delegates gathered for a seminar on...