Fun in the PPARC
The future leader of Britain's physicists, Ian Halliday, incoming chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, is already finding life mildly puzzling. He told the Royal...
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Bondi beached
The Institute of Physics needs opinionated scientists, preferably in the Brighton area, and not necessarily physicists. You are wanteed at 2pm on March 17 for a debate forming part of the IoP's...
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Quality home
The Quality Assurance Agency has finally found a new headquarters. After months of hunting around the environs of Longdon, Gloucestershire home of QAA chief executive John Randall, the agency has...
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Nutty but NEAT
Computer rage and technofear may be trends of the 1990s, but researchers at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth are finding that their effects can still be outweighed by a more traditional complaint...
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Mission briefing
Alumnus to be proud of No 159 may be about to jet to Bagdhad in a bid to prevent bombs falling on the handiwork of the British university graduates implicated in Saddam Hussein's biochemical weapons...
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Plymouth pioneers satellite surgery
MASTER surgeons could soon oversee operations via satellite using technology being developed at Plymouth University. A Pounds 25,000 pilot scheme will start early next month linking the university...
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Scotland pilots campus link-up
All of Scotland's main college and university sites have been linked by a videoconferencing network - the largest of its kind in the world. The pioneering system will link lecturers and students...
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Teaching offers path to promotion
Universities as diverse as Durham and Nottingham Trent are devising new methods of promoting academics on the basis of their teaching records. Phil Knott, a law professor at Nottingham Trent...
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Gwent troubled
Labour MP Llew Smith has called for the board of Gwent Tertiary College to be sacked over alleged mishandling of European Social Fund grants. The college could be forced to pay back Pounds 1 million...
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Franchises panned
MPs attacked the quality and value of franchised further education at an evidence session for the select committee inquiry into further education funding this week. Committee chair, Labour MP...
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Inspectors' first sting
North Area College has become the first casualty of the Further Education Funding Council's new inspection regime, which allows more self-assessment. The Manchester sixth-form college was found to...
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Place at the table
It would be "unacceptable" if further education were not properly represented on each of the nine new regional development agencies, the Further Education Funding Council has told the government in...
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Certificate for all
Teachers, educationists and employers have wholeheartedly backed proposals for an "overarching certificate" with compulsory key skills for 16 to 19-year-olds. The results of the government's...
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Offices of trust that must not be abused
Further education has been told to clean up its act. Phil Baty reports Further education leaders will ruin an unprecedented opportunity to put the sector at the heart of the "lifelong learning...
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Business brain spin-off
MANY university spin-off companies are little better at using their intellectual capital than small to medium firms, an Anglia Polytechnic University study reports. The findings are based on a survey...