Nottingham Trent backs entrepreneurs
Graduates with a good idea are to receive thousands of pounds from a university in return for a slice of the profits should they make it in the business world. Bursaries of Pounds 6,000 each, plus...
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Old frigate's future is bright
Twentieth-century military technology is helping to preserve 19th-century military hardware in the latest stage of a unique research project at the University of Abertay Dundee. Scientists from UAD's...
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Mother endows suicide chair
A woman whose son took his own life has helped make possible an endowed chair in suicide studies at the University of Toronto. Doris Sommer-Rotenberg has helped raise Can$1 million (Pounds 490,000),...
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Running fever over glandular issues
Helen Wallace of Greenpeace (THES, June 28) suggests that we take action on the basis of perceptions of problems rather than researched problems. The list of synthetic chemicals which might be shown...
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Internet news
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features reviews and advertisements in the newspaper. Job advertisements are updated on the Tuesday before publication of...
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PFI gets v-c thumbs down
The much-vaunted private finance initiative - trumpeted by the Treasury as the answer to higher education's financial problems - is inappropriate and "unaffordable", according to vice chancellors....
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Start-up trouble
Alumnus to be proud of No. 60 went to Wandsworth Technical College and made what could be regarded as a false start in life, working as an assistant cashier at Wandsworth Co-op and then as a civil...
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Poverty raises suicide spectre
Growing anxiety over money could drive more undergraduates into suicide, according to the United Kingdom's leading depression charity. The Depression Alliance has already noted a growth in the...
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'Bandit', aged 1,500, gives France a headache
Some of France's most potent demons, extreme-right nationalism and the unhealed rift between Catholics and secular Republicans, have been awakened, if not yet fully unleashed, by the anniversary of a...
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Light reading for a heavy task
In the first of our open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, David Packham (left) suggests that its members canprepare for their deliberations by taking thefollowing...
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Think hard before you list
At around this time every year intending students are visiting bookshops and public libraries with lists of books they are advised to read before their higher education course begins. The idea of...
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Temple of learning needs no new gods
Who would refuse a Pounds 20 million gift for a new management school? Oxford University's Alexander Murray would A proposal is afoot to build a school of management studies on a playing field near...
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British guide to IT
A task force to advise government on the creation of a society at ease with the rapid developments in information and communications technologies should be set up by the end of this year, according...
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UK looks all set for elite band
The Government has given the first official indications that it may be in favour of the creation of an elite league of British universities, by urging Sir Ron Dearing to consider the possibilities of...
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Dispute over costs of flagship schools
A Government study on funding education for 16 to 19-year-olds contains serious errors, according to further education associations. The six associations claim that Tory flagship grant-maintained...