Ground-breaking course on disability
A ground-breaking course on disability has been devised at the University of Ulster, writes Noel McAdam. The 12-week part-time course was designed by and will be delivered by disabled people....
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Fact file
The 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: Of first degree business studies graduates who went into work: * 34 per cent went into management and administrative work *...
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Students test benefits case
THE GOVERNMENT is coming under increasing pressure to stop students who take a break from their courses being left destitute. Students can claim neither maintenance grants and loans nor social...
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Fellowships
Leeds College of Music. Fellowships of the college have been awarded to Pandit Sharda Sahai, tabla solo artist and accompanist in North Indian Classical Music. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great...
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Why people like Saddam couldn't make more of themselves
(Photograph) - Why people like Saddam couldn't make more of themselves. As the UK commission into human cloning prepares to publish its report next week, one cloning advocate has been branded mad,...
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Food Standards Agency keen on campus labs
University researchers stand to gain as the new Food Standards Agency establishes its independence. The agency, due to come into operation at the end of 1999, is expected to have a Pounds 25 million...
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Less money for science
The science budget next year will be almost Pounds 30 million lower in real terms than this year as the government keeps to Conservative spending levels. The budget for 1998-99 is Pounds 1,338...
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Baroness Blackstone "optimistic" for further money for univerisities
Baroness Blackstone, higher education minister, told the House of Commons science and technology select committee this week that she was "optimistic" that the comprehensive spending review would...
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Staff fight expansion
GOVERNMENT ambitions for an extra 500,000 students in higher education by the millennium came under threat from lecturers yesterday. David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University...
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Scottish minister allays enrolment fears
THE government has rejected the claimed threat to Scottish universities caused by its tuition fee plans. Brian Wilson, Scottish Office minister for education and industry, told the Commons that fears...
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Queen's and Ulster face possible research cuts
Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Ulster have been warned of potential further cuts in government cash for research. Tony Worthington, the province's education minister, said: "They...
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National Audit Office eyes research councils
The National Audit Office is considering whether to investigate the management of grants by the government's research councils. Each year the NAO does 50 "value for money" studies of different areas...
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Oxford business school to displace rail station
A GRADE 2* listed railway station is to be moved to make way for Oxford University's Said Business School. The university is trying to find a heritage railway society site for the disused station,...
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Professors appointed to numeracy task force
Four out of the ten appointees to the government's Numeracy Task Force, aimed at raising school standards in arithmetic and maths, are professors, including chairman David Reynolds, professor of...
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MRC issues policy to combat misconduct
The Medical Research Council has published its new procedures for dealing with allegations of scientific misconduct. Though the council says allegations of scientific misconduct, including...