A star in Labour's new shadow team
Ex-academic Stephen Byers joined the expanded shadow employment and education team this week as Labour completed its front bench appointments. Mr Byers, 42, has been employment whip for the past year...
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Prison vices
VACANCY: High profile public service post. Must be able to cope with chronic overcrowding, underfunding, grumpy staff, reams of paperwork, endless dubious performance indicators, meddling ministers...
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HEBE set to close
Higher Education Business Enterprises Ltd, the higher education information agency, is set for closure. Today's meeting of the council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, joint...
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Balkan briefs: Albanian students
(Photograph) - Balkan briefs: high powered Albanian students including a judge and two "inspectors of law" set to work on the gruelling one-year common professional examination being offered by the...
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Patent battle over life
Academics have joined a campaign against the patenting of life forms in the lead up to two important European decisions on patents. The campaign, run by the Genetics Forum, involves the signing of a...
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Hepatitis B screening 'unfair to students'
Revised medical school guidelines on screening applicants for the hepatitis B virus continue to discriminate against students compared with health workers, according to medical student leaders. The...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication. The New...
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Care centre urged
Ian Bouchier, chief scientist at the Scottish Office home and health department, said this week that Scotland should consider establishing an academic centre for research in primary care and general...
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Postgrad support
In the academic year 1993-94, there were 43,800 postgraduate award holders in the UK, 22 per cent of the postgraduate population. In England 9,267 postgraduate students received support from access...
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Cheltenham debut
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education launched a new centre of policy and health research yesterday. Helping people cope with motor neurone disease will be one of its main areas of...
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Safe sex for closet readers
The quality of the writing on the back of lavatory doors in Scottish seats of learning is about to improve dramatically. Posters bearing arresting extracts from contemporary fiction, including The...
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Survey dispels ageing staff fears
Fears of a demographic crisis in English universities have been dispelled by a staff survey released this week. The figures contained in the report from the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Dublin calls the tune
A major shake-up in the running of Irish universities is planned by education minister Niamh Bhreathnach, who intends to introduce legislation to make them more accountable. New governing bodies will...
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Overlap concern
Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education, has launched a research project to compare the costs of education for 16 to 19-year-olds in secondary schools and further education colleges...
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Councils probed
The House of Commons science and technology committee is launching an inquiry into the research councils. The probe will look at the restructuring of the councils following the 1993 science white...