50 per cent participation in higher education
The government has given itself ten years to achieve 50 per cent participation in higher education. This is the first time it has put a timescale on prime minister Tony Blair's Labour Party...
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Universities and the private sector
Universities should extend links with the private sector, particularly in offering degrees via the web, Baroness Blackstone also said. She cited the success of the London School of Economics, which...
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Cubie members ready to act
Members of the Cubie committee may mobilise soon to urge the Scottish Parliament to implement their report in full. This contrasts with the muted response from Andrew Cubie. He said the committee's...
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French loses in funding round
Linguists have hit out at a decision that means French will receive proportionally less money from the funding council than any other modern language. Funding chiefs announced this week that...
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Cambridge bars outsiders
Students and dons have closed ranks against proposals to allow outsiders with real-world experience on to Cambridge University's executive council. One angry academic said the plan would destroy...
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Demand for code of ethical practice in UK sciences
Ungentlemanly behaviour among researchers in the United Kingdom should be taken more seriously as an act of scientific misconduct, according to a leading academic. Instances of the theft of ideas by...
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Neurologist patents 'idea'
Neurologist Susan Greenfield has defended her action in patenting "an idea" that a fragment of a naturally occurring brain molecule could hold the key to treating Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases...
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Beijing
Some Beijing universities will soon be allowed to commercialise dormitory development and management, taking dormitory buildings completely out of university and college control. Last year, the...
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Beirut's American campus pins hopes on new tower
BEIRUT The College Hall bell tower at the American University of Beirut was a landmark for the city for almost 120 years, until a bomb blew the building apart in November 1991. Throughout Lebanon's...
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Havana
The University of St Thomas from St Paul, Minnesota, beat the University of Havana 7-0 in the first game between a US college baseball team and a Cuban university in Cuba since a visit by Johns...
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Deadlock continues over siting of X-ray source
Trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers was this week frantically attempting to find a means of ending the impasse over the siting of the United Kingdom's new synchrotron source. The Pounds 550...
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'Closed' centre launches new MSc
A postgraduate centre, effectively closed by Edinburgh University in 1996, has launched the first MSc course of the third millennium, a stone's-throw from its former premises. The Centre for Human...
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Tribunal decision
A college head of department who was sacked following accusations she made lesbian advances towards two of her staff has won her unfair dismissal claim. Mary Collins, former head of the school of...
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Lecturers 'victimised'
Cricklade College lecturer Andrew Murray was sacked for blowing the whistle on the mismanagement of European grants, an employment tribunal heard this week. The tribunal took place as the full extent...
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Cornish 'campus' plans unveiled
The latest plans for a university in Cornwall will be announced next week, after years of wrangling over sites. The "hub" of the project is now believed to be at Tremough, near Penryn, where Falmouth...