Training for the last amateur boat race?
(Photograph) - Training for the last amateur boat race? Oxford prepare for the annual boat race against Cambridge tomorrow. This year's race has attracted criticism because of the bursaries offered...
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Physicists gain stronger voice
A deal thrashed out between the Institute of Physics and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council means that physicists should have a greater say in the way the council funds research,...
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Fact famine fuels food panic
The whiff of government secrecy, divisions between departments and hints of a cover-up have been major factors in the creation of food panics in recent years, according to researchers at Glasgow...
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Greenwich nets navy rig
The Government has confirmed that the University of Greenwich will be taking over the Royal Naval College, ending months of specultation over the future of one of Britain's most historic sites. Last...
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Call to bolster industry links
A more formal relationship between industry, public sector research establishments and universities may be necessary if Government attempts to boost interaction between them are to succeed, according...
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Grants plummet
The number of higher education discretionary grants awarded dropped by 71 per cent from 1984 to 1994, and spending on them fell by 81 per cent in real terms, Government figures published this week...
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Oxford overhaul
Oxford University should overhaul its system of government, according to an internally commissioned report. Plans to streamline Oxford's decision-making machinery and bring in more independent...
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Jobs list planned
A new national employment service for lecturers in further education is being launched this week. Nord Anglia Education said it would create a national register offering lecturers increased mobility...
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Middle East accord
Jewish and Palestinian student groups in Britain have issued a joint statement condemning terrorism and committing both sides to the Middle East peace process. The Union of Jewish Students and the...
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Funding threat to health placements
Final-year physiotherapy students may be unable to finish their courses this summer because funding has been withdrawn for their clinical placements. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists has...
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Budget cuts are not gains
While universities have to accept that continual demands for efficiency gains are inevitable, last year's budget cuts go far beyond anything which can be described as promoting efficiency, Brian...
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HEFCE will be 'less of a nanny'
Universities and colleges have been given greater freedom and responsibility in the management of their financial affairs, writes Tony Tysome. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has...
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Cooperate more to avoid 'suicide'
Universities must cooperate more if they are to avoid "suicidal" levels of competition, warned vice chancellors' chief executive Diane Warwick. Ms Warwick also told the Association of University...
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RAE discs jockey for success in Bristol
Universities and colleges are gearing up for higher education's most controversial competition, the Research Assessment Exercise. As the "census" date for research staff transfers passed and the end-...
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Little and large: UMIST vice chancellor Bob Boucher
(Photograph) - Little and large: UMIST vice chancellor Bob Boucher holds up a disc with the details of the university's submission to the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Research...