Boffins seen as boring but rich
Scientists, with their white laboratory coats, bottle-bottom glasses and balding heads buried in books, have long been held in some contempt by most young people. Yet new research suggests this...
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Flotation nets Pounds 58 million
Melbourne University has received a cash bonanza from the sale of a spin-off company selling internet addresses. Julia Hinde reports. Melbourne University has pocketed Aus$86 million (Pounds 34...
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Traumas hit official wallets
Philip Fine, in Montreal, reports on a common psychiatric diagnosis that could cost governments millions. An ever-widening group is being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and...
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Heads seek radical review
University chiefs have called for a post-Dearing review of the structure of British higher education that could lead to pressure for a new binary divide. The Standing Conference of Principals, which...
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Lecturers seek Pounds 1bn increase
Lecturers in the pre-1992 universities are calling for an increase of more than Pounds 1 billion per year in future government spending on higher education. This sum would include raising the unit of...
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Keele book inquiry 'whitewash'
Your report that "Keele inquiry deems rare book sale proper" (For the record, THES, December 10) invites the rejoinder "Well they would, wouldn't they?" Regarding whether Keele got a good price or...
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Keele book inquiry 'whitewash'
The brief report that Keele University has "cleared itself of improper behaviour" over its sale of the Turner collection of rare mathematics books to a secondhand book dealer is well expressed. What...
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For the record
The final deadline for submissions to the second phase of the Economic and Social Research Council's teaching and learning research programme is January 21 next year, and not January 15 as reported...
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Proposal creates another anomaly
Cubie recommendations put new Labour in new quandary. The THES reports. The Cubie proposals are the first major example of devolutionary divergence to challenge our fundamental political perceptions...
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For the record
Universities could gain a marketing advantage by creating a summer semester to extend undergraduate teaching, according to consultants Segal Quince Wicksteed in a report on the extended academic year...
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Cubie rejects inequity and upfront fees
Cubie committee's Christmas present to Scottish students is a package of recommendations to abolish upfront contributions to tuition fees, target support to disadvantaged groups and harmonise further...
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Scots announce research awards
* Research investment worth more than Pounds 4 million could aid the Scottish economy. The successful bids for the awards were announced by the Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council. SHEFC was...
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For the record
The National Assembly for Wales is to investigate establishing a second medical school campus for Wales. It is bidding for 100 of the government's 1,000 new medical student places. It recognises that...
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For the record
Glasgow and Strathclyde universities are joining forces to create a pioneering centre for clean, reliable and affordable energy. Strathclyde is combining its expertise in power economics, renewable...
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For the record
English student unions outside the National Union of Students could get cheap beer if Northern Services, the buying consortium for similar Scottish student unions, sets up a separate organisation...