A Motley mirror image
Ann Oakley'snew novel mocks the bureaucracy and frustration of working in a 1990s university All the characters and conversations in my forthcoming novel about university life are, of course,...
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Alumni dig deep as era of donation replaces funding from taxation
Have you been pestered by your old, hard-up university for money? Well, so has Victoria Neumark, but she found compelling reasons to give If, as Thomas Wolfe wrote, you cannot go home again, can you...
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Report urges Pounds 100,000 pay to rival City
Economics in British universities is in crisis and pushing the annual salaries of top professors up to Pounds 100,000 may be the only solution, according to a report to be published next month. The...
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Hard times for dismal science
Economics is in crisis - fewer students study it and those who do aim for a desk in the City rather than a chair in academe. Ron Amann, outgoing head of the ESRC, shares his concerns with Kam Patel...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Greek tragedy, says Tony Harrison, is a "near to accurate vision of our life". That is one of the insights offered in a...
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Upwardly mobile
Staffordshire University has given Maja Benson a PhD for research that could allow more mobile phone users on the airwaves.
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
Boston A feared dramatic decline in the number of Asians who study in the United States has been forestalled by programmes designed to provide financial assistance to previously ineligible...
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Sky schooling
Training andeducation will be made available to areas of the world with poor communications through a low-cost interactive satellite system developed with European Union funding. The Genesis project...
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Sources for research funds
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) www.esrc.ac.uk...
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Institutions line up to provide doctors
The government is to consider 21 bids to provide this year's extra 1,000 medical students from universities with existing medical schools and those keen to form them. A decision is expected in May.
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City College, Manchester
* In last week's analysis of TQAs we said that the drama, dance and cinematics department at City College, Manchester, would have failed under the tighter QAA procedures brought in last autumn. This...
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Follow your MIT-y leader
MIT is undoubtedly a leader in business plan competitions. A recent survey showed ten of the companies it has spawned now have a combined value of more than $500 million. Bill Gates scooped one of...
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Cutting edge
Forums where local people and experts talk about a green future can help change behaviour and improve policy-making Wednesday was a not untypical research day: global warming in the morning,...
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Countdown to riches
UK bioscientists have ten more days to come up with the beginnings of the business idea of the decade - and win Pounds 20,000 to boot. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and...
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Welsh and Scots join the board that wants to become a research council
Four countries have now pledged money for the AHRB, but it is not quite enough to become the organisation that Dearing had envisaged, says Olga Wojtas Academics in the arts and humanities are a step...