Highlands aims even higher
The University of the Highlands and Islands project is to seek Pounds 10 million from the European Union following its success this week in winning Pounds 33 million from the Millennium Commission...
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From piety to a cosmic order
It would be a mistake to dismiss Roger Scruton's recent arguments on animals and their lack of rights as narrow and partisan, argues David Wiggins. Indeed they come in a framework that offers the...
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Cutting off research's oxygen supply
Of the various proposals that are being floated before the Dearing committee the one to concentrate research funds on a small number of "elite" or premier league universities is the most wrong-headed...
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Universities 'must learn to network'
Universities must learn from multinational companies and create new types of networks both inside and outside the academic world, according to Hans van Ginkel, vice president of the Conference of...
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Emotions trapped
The Wellcome Trust has split Pounds 800,000 for research into neurological disorders between five institutions, including the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford,...
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Students reimbursed as Cork breaks link
A private college in Cork, which was in discussions with the University of Exeter over degree validation, has returned the deposits of 50 applicants for places on diploma and degree courses. The...
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Net opens way to global admissions system
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service could soon match students and higher education institutions as far away as Malaysia and Taiwan, according to chief executive Tony Higgins. Greater use...
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Training boost
Industry-based training bodies are being set up to help the UK become more competitive, the Government has announced. National Training Bodies will replace about 200 industry training organisations...
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Strangers in paradise
Student expeditions - adventure holidays for wannabe Livingstones? No, says Daniel Start, leader of the Cambridge group held hostage in West Papua. University expeditions are part of the...
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Women are the biggest sinners
Vittoria D'Alessio reports on the social side of a British Psychological Society conference at Strathclyde. The biggest hypocrites in the infidelity debate are women and not their male partners,...
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Earning power that depends on learning
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Marine protests sinks budget cut
A national marine biological station believes a political campaign against budget cuts has led to a climbdown by English and Scottish higher education funding councils. Earlier this year, the...
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Budget cuts get blame for boom in dropouts
More than a quarter of American students are dropping out after their first year in college, many apparently because they cannot keep up with rising tuition costs. A survey of 2,564 colleges by...
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Doctors in trouble all year round
Vittoria D'Alessio reports on the social side of a British Psychological Society conference at Strathclyde. Over half of junior hospital doctors are at risk of making errors on the wards because of...
