Scots funding formula
John Sizer of SHEFC wants to know if there is a case for treating the same research rankings differently depending on the subject. But he has not told us what the funding councils are doing to ensure...
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Grey network is proposed
Research into ageing is uncoordinated, underfunded and sometimes duplicated, say the proponents of a scheme to set up a national centre for ageing research. The solution is to start a network to...
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Medics' malaise
The latest British Medical Association survey of medical students' finances reveals record debt levels, with an average debt of Pounds 3,696, almost 30 per cent higher than last year. The average...
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Part-time pay off
More than 250 part-time lecturers have won a total Pounds 100,000 for unfair dismissal or redundancy compensation since the House of Lords ruled last year that they had the right to pursue such...
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Millennium mark up
The Scottish Office this week announced upgraded entry requirements for teacher education courses from the academic year 2000/01. Entrants to primary teacher education courses will need a standard...
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Lords decide contract staff have equal rights
A House of Lords probe into university scientists' careers has concluded that contract research staff should have the same status and rights as established colleagues of equivalent rank. The plight...
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May or may not
Rumours persist in Whitehall that Bob May, the Oxford University-based biologist, initially refused to continue with his appointment as the Government's chief scientific adviser on being notified of...
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Shrunken team on expanded stage
The triple jump, suddenly fashionable in the wake of Jonathan Edwards' spectacular victory at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenberg, could provide further British triumphs at the World...
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How would you do?
Another cherished piece of academic legend bites the dust. Almost as resilient as the old Oxford joke about late Victorian redbrick Keble College "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la gare" is the...
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Seeded first
There's nothing like an interesting visitor to ease the longueurs of the summer months, so there was a warm welcome from the Higher Education Funding Council for England information department when a...
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Baby girl brings hope to infertile
Staff at Aberdeen University's assisted reproduction unit are celebrating the safe arrival of the first Scottish baby conceived using a new infertility treatment. The little girl was born earlier...
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Metabolic rate: a Gas Exchange Measurement calorimeter
(Photograph) - Metabolic rate: a Gas Exchange Measurement calorimeter has been developed by the department of anaesthesia at the University of Manchester and Europa Scientific to treat patients...
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Nottingham leads way with doctors and nurses merger
Nottingham University's faculty of medicine and health sciences has taken on 1,800 new nursing students and more than Pounds 12 million of contracts after merging with the Mid-Trent College of...
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Transfer stuns Bodmer
The retiring director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was 'amazed and astonished' by the recent fate of the OST. He explains why to Kam Patel. Sir Walter Bodmer, the leading geneticist and...