Debt demo
(Photograph) - Students from Stoke-on-Trent College in Staffordshire protested in London last week about their college's Pounds 8 million debt, which built up through missing recruitment targets. A...
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Collider on cash course
HUNDREDS of millions of pounds of backing from countries including the United States and Japan look set to pour into Europe's particle-smashing project at Cern in Geneva. Funds had been under threat...
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Employers drop service condition
A CONCESSION by university employers has created a glimmer of hope for a New Year settlement to the pay dispute. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association met representatives of the eight...
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Standards are rising
Top research universities argue that only they should be funded to produce top-quality research. Here chairs of assessment panels in the Research Assessment Exercise claim that standards are rising...
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Bath discovers cult of success
THES reporters look at how departments prepared for and responded to last week's research assessments. STUDY OF RELIGIONS: BATH COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION 1992 rating: 2 1996 rating: 4 "TO refuse...
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Genetics mutates and grows
THES reporters look at how departments prepared for and responded to last week's research assessments. GENETICS: CAMBRIDGE 1992 rating: 5 1996 rating: 5* Since the 1992 research assessment exercise...
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Reading pays
THE BRITISH Library is to conduct market research into the possibility of charging for the use of reading rooms. The library faces a Pounds 3.33 million shortfall in income in 1996-97 and a further...
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Painful discovery
New discoveries by scientists at King's College London about the nature of pain may lead to improved methods for treatment. Researchers have discovered how heat causes pain by sending an electric...
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Engineers merge
The Institution of Electronic and Electrical Incorporated Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers could merge next year. Members of the two institutions are to be consulted on proposals...
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Fraud probe
Police are investigating eight Career Development Loan applications. The total amount loaned in the eight cases is Pounds 103,204. The Secretary of State for Education and Employment said that there...
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Quick eating cure
Sufferers from the eating disorder bulimia nervosa may soon be treated more quickly thanks to Bob Palmer, senior lecturer in psychiatry at Leicester University. He is studying 160 sufferers to see if...
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Parasites urged to get a profession
ACADEMICS are like parasites, or so says University of East London emeritus professor of psychology John Radford. Addressing the London conference of the British Psychological Society, Professor...
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Exeter down but not out
Exeter University, which on some calculations saw a decline in its overall performance in the RAE, took a disappointed rather than downhearted view. John Inkson, deputy vice chancellor, said that...
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Work is the 'magic' element
There was no "magic secret" to Goldsmiths College's spectacular rise in the institutional rankings in this year's RAE, according to Nikolas Rose, pro-warden (research) and professor of sociology. "We...
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Chemists report a fall in graduate recruits
Graduate recruitment by the chemical industry is heading for a fall this year, according to a survey by the Chemical Industries Association. Firms surveyed said they were expecting to recruit a total...