Capital investment
Is an art degree from London weightier than one from the provinces? Kate Worsley reports. It is ten years since the Damien Hirst-led Goldsmiths posse launched the Brit art boom, focusing...
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Old faces, new lives
Why do we think old age is a burdensome, debilitated state? Raymond Tallis says it is because we cannot conceive of life beyond children and careers. Last week came the news that an estimated 100,000...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk BRITISH ACADEMY http://britac3.britac.ac. uk/ Research Readerships,...
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York awards top-up skills studies
Students are paying up to Pounds 15 per term for extra university courses on key skills. The University of York encourages students to take the courses through a scheme called the York Award, which...
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Poverty walk
(Photograph) - Students gather in Glasgow's George Square at the start of a 54-mile march to Edinburgh for the opening of the Scottish Parliament yesterday. The aim is to ensure MSPs put fees and...
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Cases in need of evaluations
How many public health promotions actually achieve their aims? Ann Oakley tells Geoff Watts the only way to find out is to submit health campaigns to the same controlled trials as the rest of...
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More girls doing it for themselves
Many graduates want to be self-employed - universities are aiming to help One in three graduates would like to be self-employed or start their own business but only half of them make it, according to...
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Linking up with the long arm of the law
A police/higher education partnership is having mutual benefits. Jennifer Currie reports If there is one phrase that characterises the relationship between the West Mercia Constabulary and University...
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Adults get poor skills advice
Government initiatives to encourage lifelong learning are not working, according to the director of a five-year, Pounds 2 million research programme on the learning society. Frank Coffield, of the...
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Lucky seven win a Nesta egg for arts and science
Seven projects won the first ever grants from Nesta, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, this week, writes Alison Goddard. Nesta, which was set up using Pounds 200 million...
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Springvale sees green light
While Northern Ireland's political talks were in the balance this week, a Pounds 70 million scheme for a radical partnership in further and higher education across the peaceline in Belfast drew...
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Think tank paints picture of radical cross-border reforms needed
A think-tank has proposed major higher education reform to maximise the potential for cross-border integration between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. The Independent Democratic Dialogue...
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Bumper budget goes to the OST
The Office of Science and Technology will get a huge cash injection, the government revealed this week, writes Alison Goddard. The OST, which is part of the Department of Trade and Industry, will see...
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Manchester's business buzz
The four universities in the Greater Manchester area are launching a Pounds 12 million venture to provide their students with the skills and facilities to set up and run their own businesses. David...
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Oxford colleges give Pounds 10 million to spin-off firms
Oxford University colleges are to finance a Pounds 10 million fund for the support of spin-off firms, writes Kam Patel. Tim Cook, managing director of the university's technology transfer arm, Isis...