High-tech reading is low on meaning
Karen Murphy argues that text read on a computer screen can be less easy to understand than a traditional textbook. On the surface, it would appear that technology is a blessing to educators and to...
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Recruitment failures lose out on £35m
English universities and colleges that have failed to attract enough students will lose £35 million next year, funding chiefs announced today. While institutions will have a chance to reclaim some of...
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DFEE's loan payoff plan goes for legal scrutiny
The Department for Education and Employment is taking legal advice after claims that its plans to pay teachers' student loans are illegal. Education secretary David Blunkett recently announced...
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Stirling professor leaves before hearing
The United Kingdom's first professor of academic innovation has left her post just before a disciplinary hearing about alleged bullying. Nicky Sinead Gardner became founding director of Stirling...
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Hill selected to lead Equality Challenge Unit
Medievalist Joyce Hill will be director of the Equality Challenge Unit, which will lead new initiatives on equal opportunities in the higher education sector. Professor Hill was the first female pro...
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Centre to bolster adult basic skills campaign
A new university-based national research centre will be part of a £1.5 billion, three-year campaign to tackle Britain's adult basic skills deficit, education secretary David Blunkett announced this...
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New Lords committees to consider cloning
The House of Lords will create select committees to inquire into the use of animals in scientific procedures and into stem-cell studies and human cloning. The science and technology committee has put...
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Bid to lift threshold for endowment defeated
The Scottish National Party and Scottish Conservatives this week failed in an attempt to raise the income threshold for the graduate endowment scheme when they were outvoted in the Scottish...
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Oxford fees holdouts now number just one
Only one Oxford University student is still withholding tuition fees. Sacha Ismail, a second-year PPE student at Somerville College, said the university had made threats to him but had not acted on...
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In some parts of Britain, man was on the menu
Cannibalism in Britain existed as recently as 2,000 years ago, say Bristol University archaeologists. Bones discovered in a cave at Alveston, Gloucestershire, by a local caving group, date from...
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Bichard appointed to head London Institute
Sir Michael Bichard, who resigned as permanent secretary of state at the Department for Education and Employment two weeks ago, has been appointed rector of the London Institute. He will succeed Sir...
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Analytical science gets new professorships
Three new research professorships in analytical science have been announced by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Three universities will share...
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Clarification
The item "Two stand down from RAE panel discussions" (THES, February 23) may have given the impression that two research assessment exercise panel members are standing down because they took part in...
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Correction
The Cardionetics Institute of Bioinformatics is based at Aston University, not at Birmingham University as we said (THES, February 23). The institute, funded by Cardionetics Ltd, was opened by Aston'...
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More resources are needed to train NHS staff
The government must invest more in teaching staff and accommodation at universities if it is to meet its targets for nursing, midwifery and health professional students, says a National Audit Office...