French research puts accent on wealth creation
France's public research funding will be channelled towards wealth-creating sectors under plans set out this month. But angry researchers are calling this a way of "transferring public funds to the...
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Wonderful weirs save Cornish wetlands from running out of water
The largest lowland heath and wetlands area in the south-west has been saved from running dry by Plymouth University researchers. Geographical scientists and civil engineers from the university have...
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The shock will hit the new
Universities and colleges are shedding their staff by force and cajolery. THES reporters examine the options. An estimated 3,000 jobs have been lost in universities this year, writes Alan Thomson....
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Treasury explores VAT relief
The Government's pre-election Budget could include measures designed to accelerate the university sector's slow uptake of its private finance initiative, a ministerial adviser has revealed. Ahead of...
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How v-cs could play a loan hand
The Australian senate was debating the higher education sections of the Howard government's summer budget this week. The package puts most of the burden of savings from higher education on students...
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Missing billions
Universities are missing out on billions of pounds of industry training money, the CVCP and the HEFCE warned this week. They have commissioned a research project to help higher education win a bigger...
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Official dissent in the ranks
UNITEDSTATES higher education officials are fighting a losing battle with popular but controversial independent college and university ratings guides in an effort to ensure that they contain accurate...
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So much, by so many, for so little
THE GRAPHS (THES, December 20) in the "at a glance guide", does not show the University of Portsmouth's "5" research rating in Russian, Slavonic and East European languages. In the HEFCE Circular,...
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FEFC ombudsman
The Further Education Funding Council has appointed an independent ombudsman to deal with complaints. John Bevan, a former director of education for the Inner London Education Authority and former...
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Oxford management school's history lessons
It was good of Alexander Murray to provide such obvious target practice. His tone of high seriousness barely concealed some pretty ill-informed prejudices. The damning with faint praise of management...
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Gene mission impossible
GENETIC counselling is rarely neutral, with counsellors most likely to offer solutions to patients of low socio-economic status, a survey shows, writes Julia Hinde. The survey was designed to see...
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Split over logging
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle SUSTAINABLE management of tropical forests may cause more environmental damage than...
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South Africa jobs fear
South African universities and technikons are braced for a serious funding squeeze, which they say could force staff redundancies and spark widespread student unrest next year. The cabinet should...
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Council seeks global ranking
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has launched a major study of the international standing of research conducted in English universities. Researchers at Leeds University and the...
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A cry for freedom
MAYBE if J. D. Jacobs and Douglas Trainer looked behind their own rhetoric when challenging my commitment to free speech they would find that it is not something that has been fought for by...