Pounds 30m lab cash after v-cs' plea
TOP SCIENCE institutions are to benefit from an extra Pounds 30 million a year to modernise laboratories and boost research in biomedical sciences and chemistry, the 糖心Vlog Funding Council...
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Blue hue
(Photograph) - Blue hue: When the north wind blows, Reading University's new Pounds 5 million meteorology building should be shrouded in blue. But a southerly wind will leave the building with a...
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Crumbling building backlog tackled
Crumbling new universities are to benefit from money set aside by funding council chiefs. Under the proposals about Pounds 30 million per year would go to new universities and colleges of higher...
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HEFCE goes regional look for
A NEW look for the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England is planned from this summer to boost its work with the regions. Offices will be restructured to make senior officials responsible for...
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Boost for subject groups
SUBJECT groups whose supporters said they would lose out from planned changes to funding are likely to get more teaching money after all. Geographers, psychologists and archaeologists protested...
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Passionless pair fail to inspire
Loughborough's election candidates are pushing hard to win over the 10,000 students eligible to vote in the run-up to May 1. The seat is held by the Conservatives. But following boundary changes, the...
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Margaret Simey signs the nomination papers of Louise Ellman
(Photograph) - Margaret Simey, a 91-year-old former suffragette, was among four generations of women to sign the nomination papers of Louise Ellman as Labour candidate for Liverpool Riverside on...
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Labour hopes for upset
With more than 3,000 students and academics on the voting roll, and the Conservatives defending a majority of 2,969 over Labour at the last election, it is easy to see why the Association of...
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LSE don beats Bryan Davies to last Labour seat
Ross Cranston, professor of law at the London School of Economics and former adviser on legal matters to Neil Kinnock, has been chosen as Labour candidate for Dudley North. His rivals included Bryan...
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University of Wales backs Welsh assembly
The Court of the University of Wales has endorsed the creation of a Welsh assembly as "an important extension of democracy" for Wales. The motion, whose backers included Derec Llwyd Morgan, vice...
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Election wish-lists eat into lottery loot
Two Scottish economists have warned that the election promises of extra money for good causes through the National Lottery is threatened by public spending pressures. Stephen Bailey and Stephen...
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Scots think tank takes long look at policy
As political debate focuses on the increasingly short timescale of the election, a Scottish think tank is promoting a ten-year perspective for education policy. The education and training commission...
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V-c applauds Labour's work and learn plan
Labour's plan for a University for Industry has been welcomed by Sir John Daniel, vice chancellor of the Open University. Sir John said it was "a timely development, emphasising the power of...
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Local councils beat path to new minister's door
The Local Government Association, representing 130 councils, and the Further Education Funding Council, will be pressing whoever becomes minister for further and higher education after the election...
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Hair and taxes evade trimming
Seats of learning:THES reporters profile the key constituencies around the country where the votes of academics and students can make a crucial difference to the outcome of the election THE...