SuperJan will speed up virtual exchange
The launch of SuperJanet4 means the first stage of the high-speed network's transformation from a higher education research tool to the backbone of a national e-learning grid has been completed....
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Vet school invites 20 spin-offs to share its space
A new biotechnology innovation centre owned by the Royal Veterinary College is to offer accommodation for up to 20 companies in central London. The London BioScience Innovation Centre, at the Camden...
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£350,000 donation aids student employability
The Institute for System Level Integration (which brings together the engineering and computing expertise of four Scottish universities) has been given $500,000 (£350,000) of software to make its...
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Firm to boost Notts' status
Nottingham Trent University is strengthening its bid to become a "truly entrepreneurial university" by appointing an enterprise company with a board of business leaders. The company, to be known as...
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Public interest comes before industry profits
The aims of science and business frequently clash. David Packham calls for an improved code of practice. Earlier this month, the government announced that £15 million of public money was to be made...
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The poorest years of your life
Poverty is leading to mental illness among students and robbing them of an enriching experience, says Denise Meyer. Poverty is leading to mental illness among students and robbing them of an...
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Why I believe a new drive is needed to stamp out institutional racism
By Anita Sharda, Policy adviser, sociologist and former equal opportunities officer at the University of Hertfordshire. Over the past year, I have been an independent member of the home secretary's...
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Shunned six made to fight for survival
The government's student-funding policies have plunged new universities into crisis, lecturers' leaders and university managers claimed this week. Six universities have been placed under emergency...
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Next week
NEWS Fit for work: Hefce publishes the first employability indicators. Social inclusion: the Scottish university principals' pledge card FEATURES Noreena Hertz asks whether exercising our democratic...
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For the record
UK split in student numbers People under 21 in Scotland and Northern Ireland are more likely to go to university or college than under 21s in the United Kingdom. More than 40 per cent of them entered...
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Correction
We wish to point out that Leicester University student Shahid Hussain ( THES , March 23) did not, as we said, quote Benjamin Franklin as having said: "There are two certainties in life - death and...
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Fitness for work factor comes in
Next week sees judgement day on graduate employability when funding chiefs publish their latest performance indicators. Education secretary David Blunkett is keen to identify which universities and...
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Pay rise fails to resolve crisis
The government announced a multimillion pound boost for further education this week as it launched the new Learning and Skills Council for post-16 education and training. At a launch meeting held at...
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New medical schools and extra places boost provision by half
Two new medical schools were announced this week by the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England and the Department of Health. The universities of York and Hull were successful in a joint bid, as...
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QAA faces boycott by 66,000 lecturers
The Quality Assurance Agency was plunged deeper into crisis this week as lecturers threatened a boycott and quality chiefs attacked government over its "lighter touch" inspection plan. A proposal for...