Work experience gets a cash carrot
A pot of new cash to develop business and community links will reward institutions with good graduate employment records. The 糖心Vlog Reach-Out to Business and Community Fund will eventually...
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Minister slates 'bad' science
Science by press release is not just bad science, it is irresponsible science, Lord Sainsbury told a Royal Society meeting this week. Speaking on science, technology and social responsibility, he...
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UK field trials of GM crops in offing
The first UK farm-scale trials of genetically modified crops may start next month, the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions is expected to announce shortly. The four-year trials are...
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Account system disaster bugs MP
The installation of a new computer accounting system at a research council was this week branded an "unadulterated mess" and "a grade-one disaster" by a House of Commons select committee. The public...
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Mappers in second bid
The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire will seek planning permission next week to more than double in size with a view to commercialising research on mapping human and animal genes. It...
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UfI on course to hit participation target
The University for Industry is poised to realise the government's pledge to increase higher education participation to 50 per cent among 18 to 30-year-olds, its chief executive said this week....
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TECs may be axed
Training and enterprise councils, a legacy of Thatcherite Britain, could be abolished in their present form as part of a government overhaul of post-16 education and training. Senior TEC officials...
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Union backs THES
'There are fundamental questions of how the university's procedures allowed this to languish for so many years after it had first been identified' Complaints about flawed and "incorrect" teaching...
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A-level reforms to go baccalaureate route
Ministers were expected to pave the way to a new European baccalaureate-style advanced level qualifications system with the announcement today of reforms to broaden 16 to 19-year-old study. The...
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Best foot forward
(Photograph) - New-generation programmable Lego Mindstorms robot at an Edinburgh University seminar, 'Smartening up for the next millennium'. The seminar highlighted the technology and techniques of...
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Falling for a nose job
Take one man, the smell of a female armpit and a written description of a woman and place them in a room together. Do not tell the man that he is being exposed to female armpit odour. Result? When...
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Conflicting answers to popping the question
Newspaper and media surveys that report the decline of marriage tell us more about the question being asked than about marriage, says new research from the University of Loughborough. Rachel Lawes, a...
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Encounters of an unfair kind
Why do small subject areas and old universities do better in teaching quality assessments? In the second part of our analysis, Phil Baty questions peer review Academics acting as teaching quality...
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
Nearly 20 years after the British government took the controversial step of entering the fee-paying global higher education market, it seems the gamble has paid off. In 1980, there were 100,000...
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Demand for degrees out strips supply
France has belatedly started a determined campaign to catch up with its "Anglo-Saxon" competitors in the international market of higher education, setting out to entice foreign students, particularly...