Irish budget decision expected on fee ban
The Irish government will an-nounce in next week's budget whether it is to abolish tuition fees in universities and other higher and further education colleges. The issue is being pushed by Niamh...
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Appointments at the Academy of Medical Sciences
New fellows elected to the the AMS on April 1 2001. Dr Timothy John Aitman , M.R.C. Clinical Scientist, Honorary Clinical Reader and Consultant Physician, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre,...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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Net users take fast line to new jobs
Use of The THES Internet Service increased by half as the online service, offering job advertisements, summaries of the newspaper's contents, and other resources, entered its second week. The busiest...
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Funders delay quality plan
Vice chancellors are facing further delays before they can discuss the Higher Education Funding Council for England's proposals for a single quality body. The funding council is committed to...
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Help for contract staff
Proposals for the career management of contract research staff in universities are close to being finalised by the research councils. Kenneth Edwards, chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors...
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Research cash shortfall
Oxford University is filing a complaint to the Office of Science and Technology over the research councils' handling of claims for research project costs. The university says it has lost Pounds 3...
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Job cuts spark strike threat
Lecturers at Chelmsford further education college are threatening to take industrial action over an "unfair" programme of cuts which will make about one in six teaching staff redundant but leave...
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Brunel kingdom
West London Institute of Higher Education is to be formally incorporated into Brunel University to become Brunel University College next Wednesday. The move follows four years of negotiations and...
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Good neighbour
A former neighbour of a medical researcher at Dundee University, has unexpectedly bequeathed Pounds 350,000 to boost the university's Medical Research Council unit work on cancer and nervous diseases...
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Teacher sums
The Scottish Office has cut intakes to secondary teacher education courses by almost 200 to 1,210 in the coming session, and slightly boosted primary intakes by 50 to 1,050. Some new teachers are...
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Ropa lassoes research councils to cause
Science minister David Hunt has announced the expansion of a Government scheme encouraging collaboration between industry and researchers. The Realising Our Potential Award, known as Ropa, launched...
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College appeals in race case
Kingsway College, a further education college in central London found guilty of racial discrimination at an industrial tribunal last November, is to appeal. Farhad Shahrokni, a maths and computer...
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Drugs and crime link
A clear link exists between persistent criminal behaviour by young offenders and high levels of drug use, according to Mike Collison of Keele University's department of criminology. But it is not the...
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Tax gives food for thought
Food studies lecturer Stella Walsh is to monitor the diet and lifestyles of a group of pensioners in Leeds to discover what impact the introduction of VAT on fuel bills is having on their quality of...