Peer review: where to now?
You launch your debate on peer review with the award of research grants. But the "fixers" are also at work at the heart of the increasingly bitter Cambridge promotions crisis. We have partly reformed...
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So where's the science?
I was relieved to encounter halfway through Tim Cornwell's article on Steven Pinker's new book, How the Mind Works, some trenchant criticism from Stephen J. Gould (THES, January 9). But apart from...
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All's Wells that ends well
Jennifer Wallace's approving profile of Peter Holland, the new director of the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, (THES, "The luvvie director", December 26 1997) unfairly...
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Strathclyde puts Pounds 0.5m into teaching methods
Strathclyde University has invested Pounds 500,000 in a scheme to develop new teaching and learning methods.
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OU law degree notches up over 900 students
THE OPEN University's first law degree course has attracted more than 900 students. Launched last year in collaboration with the College of Law, it is now Britain's largest undergraduate law degree...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk. EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www2.echo.lu IT(esprit) Contact:...
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Cambridge out to attract more ethnic minorities
Cambridge University has published a special prospectus aimed at encouraging more black and Asian teenagers to apply.
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New graduate school for Staffs
Staffordshire University opened a new graduate school this week to coordinate all postgraduate education and research.
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Brain power
(Photograph) - Brain power: the first issue of The THES's new Research section, out this week, starts with biomedicine, the biggest research sector, which is now being transformed by new technology...
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Cranfield set for one-off teaching funding cut
Cranfield University faces a one-off 5 per cent reduction in its Pounds 10.5 million funding for teaching after a funding council study of specialist institutions.
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Food Standards Agency plans dished up
The government this week unveiled its long-awaited plans for the Food Standards Agency. The white paper, initially expected in October or November last year, is expected to give the new agency a key...
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Asian crisis to cost Pounds 300m
British universities are redirecting their overseas recruitment efforts as they prepare for a collapse in their Asian Tigers market. Institutions in the United Kingdom stand to lose over Pounds 300...
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Labs net Pounds 80m from fund's swollen coffers
Universities have secured almost Pounds 80 million for new state-of the-art research equipment thanks to the success of a public/private initiative, though this is far less than the Pounds 474...
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Pounds 230m IT training package for teachers
Education and Employment secretary David Blunkett this week announced a Pounds 230 million package to equip 450,000 practising school-teachers with information and communication techn-ology skills.
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Fact file
The Higher Education statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: Of first-degree humanities graduates who went into work: 20 per cent went into management and administrative work 26 per...