Quality body role to be debated
Key questions about the role of the proposed new higher education quality agency and the nature of quality in universities and colleges are to be addressed before the body is set up, it emerged this...
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Hybrid discipline to treat offenders
Rising violence and a disintegrating criminal justice system signal the need for a new discipline aimed at treating offenders rather than at just judging and then punishing them, psychiatrists say...
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Forth acts on PFI concerns
University heads are working with ministers to "expose" the weaknesses of the Private Finance Initiative in higher education, it was claimed this week. Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has...
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Medical schools set to scoop record investment
King's College London and the United Medical and Dental Schools are looking to clinch the biggest deal so far under the Government's Private Finance Initiative worth Pounds 125 million. The two...
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THESIS
An electronic book search service, Out of Print, is now available on THESIS, The THES Internet Service. THESISprovides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements,...
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Axe and ye will be told
Was the disastrous capital allocation for universities in the last Budget a sin of omission rather than commission, to be blamed on the straightforward ignorance of Gillian Shephard, Education and...
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Top-up fees not ruled out by Lib Dems
The Liberal Democrats' main policy decision-making body has given the go-ahead to a new further and higher education document that deliberately leaves the door open to the possibility of top-up fees...
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Law loses appeal
The number of graduates applying to join the legal practice course - the initial training route for solicitors - has fallen by 15 per cent this year, according to figures from the College of Law. The...
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Simple begging
Researchers looking for money from the Medical Research Council must now include plans for explaining their work to lay people in their applications for grants. Researchers will also be able to apply...
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FE target met
New figures this week confirm that further education student growth was on target last year (1994/95) to reach Government projections of 6 per cent. Colleges provided courses for 3.2 million students...
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Axe over jobs
Up to 150 posts could be lost in research institutes allied to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council because of a planned Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries cut of...
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Bio council chief
Raymond Baker of the Merck Sharp and Dohme Neuroscience Research Centre in Harlow is to succeed Tom Blundell as chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council when...
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Student religion sparks data row
Bob Cooper, chairman of the Fair Employment Commission, has criticised the failure of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service to agree to monitor the religion of applicants from Northern...
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East slams west on eco-probes
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are complaining of a glut of reports on them by western environmental experts. They argue that these reports could have been produced just as well, and more...
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Doctors in degree of doubt
So much for the theory that MPs with small majorities get cautious as elections approach. Michael Stern, Conservative MP for Bristol North-West, edged out his Labour challenger by 45 votes in 1992,...