Minister sells science to young
Science minister Ian Taylor this week launched a project to find out how 17 to 25-year-olds think science and technology will affect their future over the next two decades. Kicking off the initiative...
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Call for Royal Commission
The TUC voted this week for a Royal Commission on the future of higher education but not without reservations being expressed by Unison, the white collar union. David Triesman, general secretary of...
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HIV link confirmed
A 15-year study of haemophiliacs by the Medical Research Council has proved conclusively that HIV is the cause of AIDS. MRC researchers believe the findings will silence critics who have argued that...
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TEC success
Training and Enterprise Councils in England and Wales have made progress in securing jobs for trainees, according to Department of Education and Employment figures to be published this week. The...
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Student challenges Essex over Net rights
An Essex student's human rights database on the Internet has been disrupted during a six-month dispute with his university over control of the information. The university's registrar admits that a...
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Mururoa divides scientists
Scientists are polarised about possible environmental damage caused by French nuclear tests such as Tuesday's at Mururoa atoll in the Pacific. Most scientists think that the explosion will create an...
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Catching on
(Photograph) - Catching on: a passer-by admires a model of a Rolls-Royce for the 21st century made by Sean Henstridge, a graduate from the MA automotive design course at Coventry University, whose...
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Knights top pay league
Vice chancellors who have been knighted earn 31 per cent more than those without public honours, according to a report by economists on top academics' pay. It predicts that the new openness about...
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Spy row prompts dig halt
The University of Wales has suspended its involvement in an archaeological dig in Bulgaria after a senior lecturer was accused of military espionage and expelled. Douglass Bailey, an American who...
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Union to fight staff dismissals
The Educational Institute of Scotland is to pursue unfair dismissal claims on behalf of three academics made compulsorily redundant at Jewel and Esk Valley College. The union says it does not accept...
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Greenwich naval bid
The University of Greenwich is expected to make a multimillion pound bid for the Royal Naval College, put up for sale this week. The university says it is willing to take over the Pounds 1 million...
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Contract strikes
Twenty further education colleges were disrupted by strikes during enrolment this week as lecturers campaigned against new contracts. Strikes were avoided at the last minute at Handsworth, Shrewsbury...
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Pay deal struck
A 2.7 per cent pay offer has been accepted in a ballot of members of the Association of University and College Lecturers representing staff in the new universities and colleges of higher education. "...
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Scottish Vocational Education Council
The Scottish Vocational Education Council was incorrectly described as the Scottish Vocational Educational Committee in an article by Ann Macleod in last week's THES.