Battle for the skies
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal for England, and Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, will meet science minister John Battle next Thursday in a bid to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory at...
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66 institutions in the red
SIXTY-SIX institutions were in deficit in 1995/96, according to figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, 15 more than in 1994/95. HESA's new reference volume, Resources of Higher...
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More academics chosen by Labour
ACADEMICS were favoured with more key posts by the Government this week. Two of the four new members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee are professors. Charles Goodhart, professor of...
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Human teaching pledge for Highlands and Islands
TECHNOLOGY will not overshadow human teaching in the proposed University of the Highlands and Islands, according to its new adviser, Alistair MacFarlane, former principal of Heriot-Watt University,...
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Ashmolean's white hope stubbed out
THE BOARD of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, will meet shortly to consider how to fill the post of director turned down by American curator, George Goldner. Dr Goldner, senior curator at the...
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Job swap graduates take toll on employers
GRADUATES who change jobs frequently early in their career could be costing UK employers up to Pounds 300 million, the recruitment industry was told at this week's Institute of Personnel and...
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East Anglia wins sports park lottery award
THE University of East Anglia has won a Pounds 7.5 million National Lottery grant for its planned East Anglian Sports Park. The English Sports Council has given the go-ahead for the Pounds 10 million...
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Geological Society to accredit degrees
THE Geological Society is to accredit geoscience degrees to assure prospective students about teaching quality. The first courses to be accredited are at Manchester University and Birkbeck College,...
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Stubbs: change with consensus
SUCH is Sir William Stubbs' commitment to "making history", he is taking on the chairmanship of the new all-encompassing education superquango, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, without a...
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End nigh for agonising results wait
MORE than 300 undergraduates in Scotland are being spared the sleepless nights endured by generations of students during the long wait for examination results, writes Alison Utley. This week, in a...
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Microsoft quiet on Cambridge plans
CAMBRIDGE University vice chancellor Alec Broers said this week that he is "very excited" about the prospect of setting up a multi-million pound research campus with computer giant Microsoft, but...
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Newcastle threatens art gallery closure
A RESCUE package was being negotiated at Newcastle University this week following protests over proposals to close its Hatton Gallery. An independent trust to safeguard the future of valuable works...
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Park gets go-ahead
A TEN-YEAR-OLD scheme to build Britain's biggest science park on the outskirts of Bristol has finally been given the go-ahead by planners. Bristol University, Bath University and the University of...
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Rogues and beggars
The budget is on July 2, but just how are government departments supposed to cope with it? They have not been asked to submit full public expenditure bids as they would for a real budget, but most...
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Agenda bender
Sir Ron Dearing's report is just five weeks away. How can universities contain their excitement? No sooner will Sir Ron reveal all, than all those difficult funding and policy decisions which have...