Scientists call for genetic freeze
Commercial interests are preventing geneticists from warning the public of the dangers of genetically engineered organisms, a group of scientists has warned. They have appealed to scientists to sign...
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Warwick Pounds 40m deal
Science minister David Hunt this week announced a Pounds 40 million link-up between the University of Warwick and design and manufacturing firm Computervision. The research and education...
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Thames Valley turns IT results around
The fifth unsatisfactory rating awarded so far by the Higher Education Funding Council for England's quality assessors has gone to Thames Valley University's computing degrees, but a follow-up visit...
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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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Quality official predicts failures
More universities will face the prospect of departments receiving the equivalent of "unsatisfactory" quality gradings when the Higher Education Funding Council for England introduces its new system...
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THES taps into academic interest on the Net
The majority of British academics, even in the least technological disciplines, are users of advanced computer-based communications technology, according to a THES survey of readers. More than 85 per...
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Oz option
The Labour Party's favoured option for a student charge is a system based on the Australian higher education contribution scheme, under which each student pays a portion of their tuition costs...
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There she blows
(Photograph) - The Royal Yachting Association's Seamanship Foundation has donated six Hunter Duette yachts to Southampton Institute to run the Young Skippers scheme. They are just part of a donation...
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Dock landed
Liverpool John Moores University signed an agreement this week with property firm London and General to take part in a Pounds 100 million science and technology park development in Birkenhead. The...
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Colleges lose EC cash fight
Halton College in Cheshire has lost a High Court battle to recover more than Pounds 3 million from its county council following a row over European funding. The college claimed that financial...
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Critical Ward
The West Midlands region of Natfhe is protesting against the CBE for Roger Ward, chief executive of the Colleges Employers Forum, claiming that his influence on further and higher education has been...
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Seeing through psychic imposters
Friday 13th is turning out to be unlucky for charlatans claiming to have psychic powers. Richard Wiseman, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, and Robert Morris, Koestler...
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Group's Pounds 250,000 grant brings CAT nearer
The establishment of a credit accumulation and transfer system for London has moved a step nearer with the successful bid for Pounds 250,000 from the Government's Single Regeneration Budget. Matched...
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Anger over new deal for Durrands
John Tarrant, deputy vice chancellor of the University of East Anglia, will become vice chancellor of Huddersfield University in October, it was announced this week. But controversy is brewing on the...
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I spy
Stella Rimington, who recently became Edinburgh University's alumna of the year, claimed in her acceptance speech that she had never planned her career, and certainly never thought that she would...