Science under scrutiny
(Photograph) - The public understanding of science will be a central issue tackled by the government's forthcoming science white paper. Scientists will be encouraged to take up the public debate on...
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Contents for free
Universities and colleges will have free access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents from September, saving individual institutions more than Pounds 1,000 per year. Etoc lists the...
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Law course criticised
The new Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf of Barnes, has criticised a new legal practice course set up by Nottingham Law School, the BPP Law School and the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice for eight...
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Lancaster murder
Lorraine Roseanna Price, a 44-year-old single mother and mature student whose body was found on Sunday morning at Lancaster University's Furness College, had recently completed a degree and was ready...
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Anderson apologises
Oxford University scientist Sunetra Gupta has received an undisclosed sum of money, her legal costs and a full apology from Roy Anderson. Professor Anderson admitted making a false allegation about...
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Natfhe accepts offer
College lecturers have accepted their annual pay offer for the first time in six years. Lecturers' union Natfhe's national executive has accepted this year's 3.3 per cent deal by 13 to eight, after...
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Dons warn over constitution
The tradition of open discussion by Cambridge academics on all matters of university policy and topics of concern is under threat. The university council wants to cut the length of individual...
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Staff paid to retrain
Lancaster University is to investigate the learning needs of its staff as part of the Department for Education and Employment's campaign to promote the benefits of lifelong learning in the workplace...
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Scottish colleges get Pounds 10m extra
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, is promoting wider access with a Pounds 10 million award to further education colleges. Mr McLeish announced the "completely...
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RCA struts its stuff
There was not an elbow patch in sight at the Royal College of Art's postgraduate fashion show last week, the annual occasion when academia's better dressed members get to mix comfortably with the...
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Fears that post-16 bill will be rushed
Radical reforms in post-16 education and training may be delayed or have to be rushed through without being thoroughly thought out, politicians have warned. The Learning and Skills Bill, which has...
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Victory for film student
A black student who claims he was unfairly removed from his degree course after blowing the whistle on racism and mismanagement at the London Institute has had an appeal against his exclusion upheld...
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Go-it-alone employers have lecturers' union baying for blood
The Association of University Teachers says it has lost faith in the Universities and Colleges Employers Association because it has unilaterally imposed this year's 3 per cent pay offer with no "...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to: research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this...
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World awaits answer to $400m gene question
Researchers around the world are set to announce on Monday the completion of 90 per cent of one of the most exciting projects in the history of science: the sequencing of the human genome. Costing...