ILT sets its entry rules
Academics who wish to be members of the Institute of Learning and Teaching will have to demonstrate 24 "teaching outcomes". A consultation report out next week from the institute planning group...
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Chichester goes for university status
The Privy Council has given degree-awarding powers to Chichester Institute of 糖心Vlog. The institute now intends to apply to be renamed University College Chichester. Meanwhile, Queen...
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Lib Dems seek betterlodgings for students
Liberal Democrat peers are to call on the government to take a lead in ensuring minimum health and safety standards for student accommodation. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Tope (below) will open a...
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Life sciences pursue more time and money
A working group has been set up to press for four-year PhDs and increased stipends in the life sciences. The group, established by the UK Life Sciences Committee, will draw up proposals and collate...
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Hunt for hidden danger in working with mice
Computer mouse users are being assessed for health problems in a two-year study by Loughborough and Surrey universities. Researchers are to question 5,000 people on their use of non-keyboard devices...
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Scottish Tories offer to pay college fees
The Scottish Conservative Party will today unveil its scheme to pay tuition fees for Scottish students in 2001, at an estimated cost of Pounds 34 million, rising to Pounds 38 million in 2002. Party...
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Scotland adopts loan scheme for low-paid
The Scottish Office has followed English ministers in announcing loans of up to Pounds 500 for part-time higher education students on low incomes. The loans will be available from autumn 2000 to help...
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Foresight incentive for education and industry
The Department of Trade and Industry has announced Pounds 10 million for university-industry research collaborations under the government's Foresight programme. Also this week, Scottish business and...
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Structural biologists to gain four new centres
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council announced the creation of four structural biology centres this week. It will plough Pounds 4 million into the centres, which will act as...
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Edinburgh fined over genetics research
Edinburgh University was this week fined Pounds 3,500 for failing to carry out risk assessments of work involving genetic modification being carried out in the medical school's departments of...
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Industry encouraged to exploit biotechnology
Industry minister John Battle has announced a Pounds 13 million scheme to encourage the uptake of advances in biotechnology by industry. Called Bio-Wise, the initiative aims to build on its...
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Low pay may damage British science base
Britain's science base is under threat because of a lack of good physics teachers, the Institute of Physics has warned science minister Lord Sainsbury. The number of physics graduates enrolling on...
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Kuching
The Bakun Trust Fund has withdrawn its sponsorship of four university students from east Malaysia because of their poor results. The trust said the move was a warning to students to take their...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Iain Mclean asked what academics would like to see included in the government's planned Freedom of Information Act. Charles Woolfson Senior lecturer in industrial relations,...
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Cutting edge
David Wield Director of the Centre for Technology Strategy and chair of the development policy and practice group at the Open University If biotechnology innovators want to be successful, they should...