Part-time lecturers
Natfhe has written to every new university vice-chancellor calling on them to address chronic insecurity among part-time lecturers. The union has threatened to seek consultation on redundancy of...
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The Hague
There will be too few students in the Netherlands by 2003 to meet labour market demand, the Dutch Socio-Economic Council has said. It recommends encouraging older people to return to education....
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Stephen Byers
Stephen Byers He may be famous for telling a radio interviewer that eight times seven was 54 but Stephen Byers has proved there is little wrong with his political calculations. Indeed, a panel of...
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Rector's tale of Belgrade bombing
In an email interview, Jagos Puric, rector of Belgrade University, tells David Jobbins of the university's response to Nato raids against Serbia. All possible steps have been taken to verify its...
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Science must be more commercial
The need to commercialise science generated by public sector research establishments, including research council institutes, was placed at the forefront of the government's technology-transfer agenda...
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Merger saves college name
The government's tough new rules on use of the university college title have been slammed by a principal whose college is merging with a university to save its name. Robert Withers, principal of...
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Survey supports Cornish uni
Cornwall is on course for a new university, according to results of a consultants' survey to be made public next month, writes Harriet Swain. Final drafts of a demand survey carried out by...
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Education looms large in battle for Wales
Welsh nationalists have promised a flagship Welsh-language university if they are successful in the elections for the National Assembly next month. Plaid Cymru, which is expected to be the second...
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Universities lose out on licensing research
Research deals between universities and companies should better reflect the contributions of academics, according to John Kirkland of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. "A lot of...
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DTI visits aim to put Brit biotech on map
The UK's biotechnology industry is to be focused in four regions - around Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford and the Southeast. The regions have been identified as part of a Department of Trade and...
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Scots push business
Scottish business and industry minister Lord Macdonald has unveiled a Pounds 17 million scheme to convert the links between business and universities into economic success. Lord Macdonald has...
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Edinburgh's International Science Festival
A DNA test to detect the presence of cannabis was just one of the innovations unveiled at Edinburgh's International Science Festival, writes Jennifer Currie. Strathclyde University's genetic...
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The loneliness of the car office worker
Recreating an office behind a steering wheel may sound odd, but for the growing number of car-based workers on Britain's roads it is fast becoming part of everyday life. In order to establish common...
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10 further facts
Sir Ron (now Lord) Dearing recommended in his 1997 higher education report, that higher education should be funded directly by the 糖心Vlog Funding Councils wherever it is provided. * From...
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Cinderella steps out
The government wants more higher education students in further education colleges. Alan Thomson reports. FURTHER education colleges, for so long called the Cinderella sector, will be leading the...