Mandela in Oxford for naming ceremony
Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, will be in Oxford tomorrow when a lecture theatre at the Said Business School is named after him.
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Canberra
Australia is to legislate to allow embryonic stem-cell research but will not permit therapeutic cloning. Researchers will be allowed to use embryos that would otherwise be destroyed.
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Washington DC
The US government has imposed tougher controls on students seeking to enter the country in a post-September 11 clampdown. Visa clearance must be obtained before international students can start their...
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Dutch on flying tour of British institutions
A party of 60 Dutchmen and women are touring 11 UK universities in England and Scotland this month to pick up tips on how they are using learning technology. The group comprises delegates from Surf,...
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Scots try to bridge the industry-academe gap
Scotland is looking at a national scheme to allow academics and industrialists to move more easily from one sector to the other in a bid to promote knowledge transfer. The Scottish Higher Education...
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Puzzle-solver could win $1 million prize
A researcher from Southampton University says he has solved a question that has troubled mathematicians for a century. Martin Dunwoody has submitted his proof of Poincare's Conjecture. If correct, he...
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Electronic books 'will be in huge demand'
Lord Stevenson, chairman of Pearson plc, told a conference this week that the "book is here to stay" and predicted a bright future for companion websites. The conference, "Higher Education and...
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Singing Ron cuts disc for charity
Ron Lorimer, a store technician at Dundee University's School of Life Sciences, infamous for singing while he works, has cut a CD of classic tracks, backed by bass guitarist and PhD student Alex...
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Correction
David Paton, who featured in a THES story about university economists finding a way to beat bookmakers (March 29) is senior lecturer in industrial economics at Nottingham University Business School,...
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Part-time numbers growing
More and more people are studying part time, according to data released this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Full-time first-degree students now make up less than half of the student...
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Colleges in clash with LSC leader
College heads have again clashed with John Harwood, chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council, this time in a dispute over a proposed national learner survey. Mr Harwood has accused the...
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Race for NUS presidency is still wide open
Candidates for the National Union of Students' presidential elections next Tuesday have everything to play for since the dominant issue of student funding remains unresolved. Voters at the union's...
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Science forced to cut millions
Research councils will have to make millions of pounds in cutbacks after the imposition of new government accounting techniques. The amended rules rigidly separate capital and resource budgets that...
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V-cs told to focus on links to community
Regional collaboration and rewarding links with business and the community are likely to be the main focus of a strategic plan being developed by funding chiefs. The plan will be informed by a...
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Science 'should unite'
An independent Europe-wide body is needed to oversee the planning and construction of large science facilities. Delegates at this week's Institute of Physics annual congress, which met in Brighton,...