Guide aims to boost Scots women scientists
THE Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has launched a series of guidebooks to give better support to women in science, engineering and technology. John Sizer, SHEFC's chief executive, said...
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Millennium grant goes to science ken
THE Millennium Commission has given Pounds 36.6 million to science centres in Dundee and Glasgow, part of a Scotland-wide network that aims to boost the public understanding of science. The Scottish...
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Glasgow and St Andrew's propose merger
GLASGOW University and St Andrew's College, Scotland's only Roman Catholic teacher education college, are proposing to merge next summer. The college would merge with Glasgow's departments of...
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Old dogs will avoid institute's new tricks
LECTURERS may be able to gain membership of the new Institute for Learning and Teaching without having to pass a training course. But new academics are likely to be required to take an accredited...
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Pay review pressure rises
PRESSURE is growing on university employers to set up the Dearing-recommended pay review committee, which has been delayed for nearly four months. The Association of University Teachers has called on...
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Ward denies allegation
ASSOCIATION of Colleges chief Roger Ward has told the House of Commons education select committee that he denies an allegation that he was paid a consultancy fee by a financial services company. Mr...
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Collection costs may eat up cash
University and college funding. THES reporters assess the impact of the chancellor's pre-budget statement University finance directors fear that the extra Pounds 125 million provided by government to...
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A pivotal role in raising work skills
University and college funding. THES reporters assess the impact of the chancellor's pre-budget statement Further education will play a key role in the government's plans to address Britain's skills...
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Vice chancellors react angrily to suggestion that students should pay their fee contribution in instalments
University and college funding. THES reporters assess the impact of the chancellor's pre-budget statement Vice chancellors have reacted angrily to a suggestion in Mr Clark's letter that universities...
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Group seeks to improve R&D investment
University and college funding. THES reporters assess the impact of the chancellor's pre-budget statement Ways of increasing UK investment in research and development will be investigated by several...
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Social scientists engineer plan for representative academy
Social scientists are planning to create their own academy to stand alongside the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Royal Academy of Engineering. The council of the Association of Learned...
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Double-U turn
The Liberal Democrats last week welcomed Lord Smith of Clifton of Mountsandel in the County of Londonderry to the Lords. It was a fair choice of title for the vice chancellor of the University of...
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Triesman in pink
Still awaiting the call is David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers. But perhaps not for long. At a recent AUT presidential reception Mr Triesman treated the...
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Core asset
Would-be looters of our heritage will find slim pickings in higher education funding, to judge by the National Asset Register published this week by the Treasury. The Higher Education Funding Council...
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Quality street
The latest change in the working habits of John Randall, the very mobile chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, may interest his desk-bound colleagues in London. Having given some QAA...