Pharmacy degree to meet regional shortfall
The University of East Anglia is to offer a new degree in pharmacy, helping to address a shortage of pharmacists in the east of England. The NHS Academic Pharmacy Practice Unit has been based on the...
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£1 billion boost to keep scientists in Europe
European science is to receive an extra €1.6 billion (£1 billion) to prevent a brain drain, begin a brain gain and encourage a brain circulation. The European Commission is planning to double its...
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Online portals aid access to education
Do-it-yourself online admission and fees payment to the academic course of your choice is fast becoming a reality with the rapid development of portals in post-16 education, senior managers heard at...
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Janet forced to find yet another provider
The WorldCom scandal could force the second migration this year of Janet, the electronic network that links universities, colleges and the research councils. Robin Arak, chief executive of the UK...
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Lib Dems say grants must be reintroduced
Liberal Democrats this week warned the government that it was in danger of missing its 50 per cent higher education participation target unless it scrapped tuition fees and reintroduced maintenance...
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£50 million for Northern Ireland research
Northern Ireland universities are to get £50 million for research from a public-private partnership. The government will provide £25 million over five years to be matched by £25 million that the...
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Employers 'should help to widen access'
Partnership agreements between schools, colleges and universities should be extended to include employers, a conference will hear next week. Employers should be engaged as part of the effort to widen...
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King's may transfer prospectus to web
King's College London is considering replacing its paper-based student prospectus in favour of a web-based document within two years, Andrew Aird, director of web services, told a web management...
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Text message words are bound 4 OED
Dictionaries of the future may include mobile phone text message abbreviations in response to their common usage in everyday life, English language experts at Leicester University claim. The...
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Fight begins as RAE appeal ends in shreds
Attempts to overturn environmental sciences' dire performance in the research assessment exercise have been dropped after the Higher Education Funding Council for England admitted shredding all...
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Poor control spawns super rat
Haphazard attempts to tackle rodent infestation are raising the risk of poison-resistant rats spreading disease across the UK, scientists have warned. Research by Gai Murphy, senior lecturer at...
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Fee hike threatens students' chance to meet Nobelists
British participation in an international meeting of Nobel laureates is in danger because of a lack of interest from funding bodies. The annual meeting of Nobel prizewinners in Lindau, Germany,...
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£1bn UK factory to solve mystery of matter
One of the great mysteries of nature - why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe - could be probed by a new £1 billion neutrino factory that physicists want built in the UK. The...
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Digital archive dates too fast
Universities and research bodies are being warned that they risk losing vast amounts of digital information unless new techniques are developed to conserve it. The key problems are obsolescent...
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Findings: Sex change mongooses
The term "gender bender" has often been applied to pop stars because of their ambiguous style of dress. But one species of mammal has taken this further, temporarily developing physical...