Line of sight
The Secretary of State for Employment may think he is divinely inspired, but do the vice chancellors of Britain's universities have to swallow the story? Today the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Stone unturned
Spotted in the visitors book at the Higher Education Funding Council for England last week the discreet entry "S. Stone: Purpose of visit, interview". Nice to know that you're interested, Sharon, but...
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Teacher trainers lose out in Wales
Three Welsh higher education colleges are significant losers in funding allocations for next year announced by the funding council this week. The University of Wales College of Medicine, Bangor...
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Scottish students drop grants-only support
The National Union of Students in Scotland has radically shifted its position on student support and is no longer pressing for grant-only funding. At its annual conference last weekend in Stirling,...
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More readers for Cambridge
Cambridge's annual quota of readers - a senior research-oriented post just below the level of professor - is to rise 30 per cent in an effort to enhance the university's position in the 1996 research...
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Labour grasps nettle
The Labour Party is hastening publication of its long-awaited further and higher education policy paper to avoid being overtaken by the Government's own review of higher education. As Labour leader...
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Trend sinister
Following concerns that female medics face discrimination in taking up a career in surgery, is positive discrimination urgently needed for another under-represented group - left-handers? In the...
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Group argues for patent ruling on DNA
Patents should not be given on DNA sub-sequences which have no known practical application, according to a report on intellectual property and its impact on the academic community published yesterday...
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Heads in the clouds
(Photograph) - Heads in the clouds: Scientists from UMIST are busy vacuuming up the rain before it falls on the Cumbrian Fells. The 2,780ft Great Dun Fell in the Pennines is an ideal location for the...
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Vision zooms in on stock market
The Edinburgh University company that has developed a "camera on a chip" is about to arrive on the Stock Exchange at a price which could reach Pounds 30 million. Edinburgh's technology transfer...
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Search starts for degree standard
Has every holder of a British university degree achieved the same universal standard? The long process of deciding whether minimum, or threshold, standards can be defined for all graduates within and...
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Poetic breakthrough
The science museum has appointed a poet-in-residence to write about its collections and help communicate scientific ideas. The move marks the end of the cold war between science and the arts, and the...
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Russian reels under capitalist threat
Russian teaching is in danger at Edinburgh University following the announcement of the university's 2.6 per cent funding increase from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. The department...
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Medicine for the rich
Medical student leaders have warned that medicine will be for "rich kids" only, following the Government's refusal to recognise their particular financial problems. Sandy Macara, council chairman of...
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Popper's library auctioned
The library of London School of Economics philosopher Sir Karl Popper, which is to be sold by Sotheby's, is expected to fetch Pounds 500,000. Austrian-born Sir Karl, who died last year aged 92,...