Cern collider mock-up goes on show in Glasgow
A model of Cern's Large Electron Positron Collider has gone on show as part of a major new exhibition at Glasgow University. At Cern's Geneva base, electrons are accelerated around the km-long tunnel...
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Applied psychology department for Heriot-Watt
Heriot-Watt University has opened a department that aims to bring science and management closer together. The department of applied psychology is the first new department Heriot-Watt has set up since...
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Bath opens new pharmacology laboratories
The Pounds 650,000 Glaxo Wellcome laboratories at Bath University's School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology were officially opened this week. The laboratories are funded jointly by the pharmaceutical...
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UWIC stumps up for cricketing scholar
international cricketer Dean Cosker has become the first person to gain a sports scholarship from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff. Mr Cosker, who played for England's under-19 team and...
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Scots body mirrors its cousin
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is set to launch a revamped quality assessment method that brings it closer to the English system. But it is steadfastly maintaining its distance from...
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Pounds 30m lab cash after v-cs' plea
TOP SCIENCE institutions are to benefit from an extra Pounds 30 million a year to modernise laboratories and boost research in biomedical sciences and chemistry, the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Blue hue
(Photograph) - Blue hue: When the north wind blows, Reading University's new Pounds 5 million meteorology building should be shrouded in blue. But a southerly wind will leave the building with a...
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Crumbling building backlog tackled
Crumbling new universities are to benefit from money set aside by funding council chiefs. Under the proposals about Pounds 30 million per year would go to new universities and colleges of higher...
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HEFCE goes regional look for
A NEW look for the Higher Education Funding Council for England is planned from this summer to boost its work with the regions. Offices will be restructured to make senior officials responsible for...
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Boost for subject groups
SUBJECT groups whose supporters said they would lose out from planned changes to funding are likely to get more teaching money after all. Geographers, psychologists and archaeologists protested...
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Passionless pair fail to inspire
Loughborough's election candidates are pushing hard to win over the 10,000 students eligible to vote in the run-up to May 1. The seat is held by the Conservatives. But following boundary changes, the...
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Margaret Simey signs the nomination papers of Louise Ellman
(Photograph) - Margaret Simey, a 91-year-old former suffragette, was among four generations of women to sign the nomination papers of Louise Ellman as Labour candidate for Liverpool Riverside on...
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Labour hopes for upset
With more than 3,000 students and academics on the voting roll, and the Conservatives defending a majority of 2,969 over Labour at the last election, it is easy to see why the Association of...
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LSE don beats Bryan Davies to last Labour seat
Ross Cranston, professor of law at the London School of Economics and former adviser on legal matters to Neil Kinnock, has been chosen as Labour candidate for Dudley North. His rivals included Bryan...
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University of Wales backs Welsh assembly
The Court of the University of Wales has endorsed the creation of a Welsh assembly as "an important extension of democracy" for Wales. The motion, whose backers included Derec Llwyd Morgan, vice...