Deposits plan for next RAE
A RADICAL paring of the number of institutions and departments involved in research was signalled this week. Sir Robert May, the Government's chief scientific adviser, called for research and...
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Computers rule, OK
COMPUTERS could replace peer review in the research assessment exercise without changing the results, according to a study by Southampton Business School. Millions of pounds and hours of time spent...
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Vets face axings
ACADEMIC posts are to be axed at London's Royal Veterinary College, threatening research into livestock diseases such as BSE. The college said that 13 staff - seven academic and related staff and six...
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Close season
Ray Baker, chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council, told a meeting of eminent science policy-makers this week that the success rate for grant applications to the...
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No puppet on a string
No reassurance from the Department for Education and Employment for those worried about the government's passion for spin doctoring. A press conference was held in London this week to announce an...
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Just like magic
Fortunately, Blunkett will always have his natural sense of humour to sweeten any bitter little political pills he may prescribe. At the Association of Colleges conference in Harrogate he announced a...
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Babel talk
Glasgow University's latest staff newsletter tells of the heroism of the estates and buildings division, each year replaces 8,000 lightbulbs, deals with almost 1,000 burst pipes, 600 blocked drains...
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Rabbi-rousers
Sir Isaiah Berlin, who died last week aged 88, was the epitome of those open-minded, cosmopolitan intellectuals from central Europe who made British academic life, both in the humanities and the...
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Blood brothers
Glasgow Caledonian University has been suffering more than most in recent months, with its principal, Stan Mason, fired for gross misconduct amid an ongoing funding council inquiry, and allegations...
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Smoked out
Alumni to be proud of Nos 146 and 147 have the power, not apparently granted to anyone in the world of higher education, of persuading the government to change its policy. Bernie Ecclestone, the...
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Howells defends corporate degrees
UNIVERSITIES will be left behind if they do not bow to market demand for "work-based degrees", lifelong learning minister Kim Howells has warned. The market for degrees is changing rapidly, and...
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Key skills are a capitalist issue
UNIVERSITIES will never be able to define and assess a set of "key skills" acceptable to industry, an Institute of Education report will warn later this month, writes Phil Baty. The report's author,...
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The spin-off and win game
Scottish universities are profiting handsomely by commercialising their research. Olga Wojtas reports. SCOTLAND'S higher education institutions earn more than Pounds 6.7 million a year from...
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Don't count your patents before they are hatched
CARELESS talk may no longer cost lives, but it can cost patents. Intellectual property is one of the key issues in commercialising research, but to patent an idea, it must not be in the public domain...
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Study aims to improve impact of warning signs
REACTIONS to danger warning signals is to come under the spotlight of researchers at Plymouth University. Backed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and led by human factors...