Grant rule change hits vocations
SOCIAL work, teaching and other vocational courses at some universities are under threat because of changes over student grants. Rules brought in this spring state that any course including work...
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Ivory towers neglect locals
HIGHER education and training bodies must be committed to their communities if they are to work well together, a report has found, writes Harriet Swain. The best practice report, for the Higher...
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Universities slow to tell students of tax windfall
UNIVERSITIES are slow to inform students about a tax break that could save postgraduates hundreds of pounds, the National Postgraduate Committee has warned. The Vocational Training Tax Relief scheme...
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And so to bed
(Photograph) - And so to bed: a plant jigsaw scheme created by plant scientists Nicola Bowen and Zac Worral will allow plant displays to be laid out in hours rather than days. Kernock Park Plants' Ms...
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Welfare-to-work is no use to long-term jobless
Glasgow University has published research by a non-academic which it hopes will inspire new academic work on long-term unemployment. The department of urban studies has published a report by David...
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LBS's Bain to chair pay commission
LONDON Business School principal George Bain has added another string to his bow in the shape of the chairmanship of the independent low pay commission. Professor Bain, who has much experience of...
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QAA told to sort out funds
The Quality Assurance Agency for higher education must sort out its funding arrangements, vice chancellors have warned. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals wants the agency to channel...
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Welsh further education colleges
* Welsh further education colleges must reassess their strategies in the light of European Commission priorities in order to attract funds, the chief executive of the Further Education Funding...
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Wellcome to help fund life sciences
The 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England and the Wellcome Trust are planning to join forces to help fund laboratory equipment for health and life science researchers. The collaboration is...
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Academic pay lagging behind public and private sectors
Only the pay of academic-related and library staff in old universities holds up when measured against comparable jobs in the public and private sectors, according to the Hay Management Consultants'...
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NTU faces millennium time bomb
Nottingham Trent University has set aside Pounds 500,000 from next year's budget to deal with the so-called millennium muddle. Prophets of doom have been forecasting catastrophe ever since it was...
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AUT study fuels review body calls
THE erosion of academic pay levels has been highlighted in a new study for the Association of University Teachers by one of the United Kingdom's leading economists. Work by Chris Trinder, chief...
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Physicists' salaries
* Physicists' salaries have risen by an average of 15 per cent over the past two years, according to a survey published by the Institute of Physics, writes Kam Patel. The average annual salary for 90...
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Shallow waters of the mid-Indian ocean ridge
Julia Hinde marks World Oceans' Day with a trawl of marine research * The relatively shallow waters of the mid-Indian ocean ridge, which runs from Mauritius on the Tropic of Capricorn to the...
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Public spending warning on monetary union
BRITISH public spending may have to be reduced by about 10 per cent to cushion against the possible effects of European monetary union, according one of the authors of The Ostrich and the Emu, a new...