Burning issues
Glasgow University has sent out a newsletter, Prospect, to thousands of residents round its West End campus, letting them know about the exciting range of events and services which the university has...
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Oxford joins race for saviour antibodies
A glimmer of hope for multiple sclerosis sufferers and for those with other autoimmune diseases is offered with the opening of a research centre in Oxford dedicated to therapeutic antibodies. The...
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Mini Japan takes root in Berks
British students have been given the go-ahead to apply through the Universities and Colleges Admisions Service and receive standard mandatory awards covering tuition fees to study at a small private...
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Dead cert
James Owen Drife of Leeds University's school of medicine has been reassuring medical students about their post-qualification careers in the latest student edition of the British Medical Journal. "In...
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Right to beef
Sir Bernard Tomlinson and fellow scientists are quite right to kick up a fuss about mad cow disease. After all, the incidence of its human equivalent, Creutzfelt Jacob disease, is one in a million,...
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Docklands go ahead
A London docklands university is to become a reality with the Government's decision to approve a Pounds 16 million technology centre in the Royal Docks in East London. A Pounds 7.8 million grant from...
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Code of conduct for overseas deals
All United Kingdom universities and most further education colleges are to face sanctions for the first time if they breach guidelines for overseas student recruitment practices and the delivery of...
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Safety risk closes Belfast job centre
Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education has shut one of its buildings because of health and safety fears. The closure of the Jobs Skills Centre came as a report revealed many of the...
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Teacher trawl
The Teacher Training Agency has offered Pounds 10 million to universities and colleges to induce them to recruit more trainee teachers in shortage subjects such as mathematics, modern languages and...
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Welsh online
All Welsh further education colleges will be on the JANET academic superhighway by the middle of next year, according to the Further Education Funding Council for Wales.
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Pounds 4m carrot dangled for good teaching
A Pounds 4 million funding programme aimed at rewarding teaching quality has got the go-ahead from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Seen as a possible stalking horse for a teaching...
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Final demand
(Photograph) - University of London staff last week presented their employer with a demand for Pounds 150 each. Unions MSF, Unison and the Association of University Teachers say that the London...
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Banks like to Learn
Commercial banks and policy makers have expressed an interest a Learning Bank, an idea which is being considered by the Labour Party. A discussion paper which describes how a Learning Bank might...
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Stones may be meteor mapper
The first Stonehenge was built to observe terrifying meteor storms plaguing the skies - and may have been part of a massive cultural change as people united to cope, an astronomer has claimed. The...