University of North London talks
* Managers and unions at the University of North London held seven hours of talks this week, with more planned, as an academic boycott of the university over new contracts began to bite. External...
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Split 'no' vote lets Cambridge go ahead with secret pay rises
Controversial plans to give the vice-chancellor at Cambridge University personal discretionary powers to award selected professors secret salary enhancements of up to Pounds 20,000 will go ahead...
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Grants rise to add more places
Scottish secretary Donald Dewar has hailed this week's announcement of grants to Scottish further education colleges as "nothing short of a funding revolution". This is the last direct Scottish...
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FEFC funding may slow expansion
Expansion drives by entrepreneurial colleges will be scuppered under "mechanistic" college funding plans, despite the government's call for an extra 700,000 students, college leaders have warned,...
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Poaching colleges under fire
Colleges are to be named and shamed for poaching students from outside their local areas as part of a drive to encourage local provision. Tables to be published soon by the Further Education Funding...
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Kingston loses school of physics
Kingston University is the latest institution to close its physics department. Last week the university announced that its school of applied physics would close completely in two year's time. Staff...
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Take-up down in engineering
Take-up of places on engineering and technology courses dropped by more than 7 per cent in 1998 compared with an overall decline of 2 per cent across the higher education sector, according to the...
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Institution of Chemical Engineers study
* In a recent House of Commons debate, chemical engineer and Labour MP Ashok Kumar referred to a study by the Institution of Chemical Engineers that showed that over the past 13 years, out of 1,500...
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'Dark' investments
A British experiment to detect the mysterious "dark" matter that pervades the universe gained another four year's funding this week. The other big winner was a space mission to study the earliest...
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Science fails to fill PhDs
About one in five engineering PhDs offered by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in 1998-99 were unfilled at the beginning of the academic year, according to figures released this...
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Bilston blow-out
The position of MP Dennis Turner as chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for further education may soon be untenable. Mr Turner, the well-liked and influential Labour backbench MP for...
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Senate asked to hold up pay and promotions
The senate at Leicester University has been asked not to rubber-stamp this year's round of staff promotions and pay rises until the university's visitor, the Queen, has completed an inquiry into...
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GM debate could hinder crop research
The furore over genetically modified food will lead to an "unofficial slowdown" whether or not a moratorium is introduced, a leading scientist will tell a Dundee University conference on the consumer...
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House of Lords science and technology committee announces an inquiry into non-food crops
* The House of Lords science and technology committee this week announced an inquiry into non-food crops like cotton and hemp. It will consider the genetic modification of such crops.
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Agricultural colleges hit by farming blight
Crises in farming have hit agricultural colleges, with slumps in applications from students and falling profits from college farms. As rows over genetically modified crops rumbled on in the UK and...