Bursaries rock top-up talks
Universities are threatening to withdraw their support for the forthcoming top-up fees bill as government attempts to broker a deal for poor students reach deadlock. With less than three weeks to go...
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In the news: Madeleine Atkins
If Coventry University considers itself an enterprising institution now, it can expect to be shouting louder about it when its new vice-chancellor, Madeleine Atkins, takes up her post next September...
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Appointments
John Glascock , former Oliver T. Carr professor at George Washington University, has been appointed Grosvenor professor of real estate finance in the department of land economy at the University of...
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AUT demands stall pay deal
An impasse over the status of academic-related staff could lead to a strike and scupper the agreement on pay. Phil Baty reports The Association of University Teachers could call all of its 47,000...
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Welsh refuse to rule out top-ups
The Labour-controlled Welsh Assembly may abandon its opposition to top-up fees even if it gets devolved powers over student funding as expected. The admission came after the Liberal Democrats...
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Media chiefs alarmed by cuts
Leading lights of the UK's film, broadcasting and publishing industries warn in The THES today that funding council plans to cut teaching support for media studies courses will damage one of the...
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Biochemists to benefit
Oxford University this week announced how it will spend its £60 million share of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's £845 million Science Research Investment Fund. Thirty projects will...
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Iraq war 'like a movie'
Television reporters travelling with military units in the Iraq war were unable to show the grim side of the conflict, leaving viewers feeling like they were watching a movie rather than the...
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£1m for skill transfer
The government has announced £1 million of grants to address the shortage of skilled knowledge and technology transfer personnel. Praxis, the training organisation set up by the Cambridge MIT...
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Visa fee 'a deterrent'
The introduction of visa renewal fees of up to £250 for overseas students by the Home Office "contradicts the government's efforts to attract more bright young people from other continents to study...
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ELWa readvertises post
ELWa, the National Council for Education and Learning in Wales, has readvertised for a new chief executive. The council received 55 applications for the £100,000-a-year post but the recruitment panel...
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Celtic research prize
Paul Russell, visiting lecturer in Celtic at Oxford University and head of classics at Radley College, has been awarded the £15,000 Legonna Celtic research prize by the National Library of Wales for...
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Apprentice success
Archie Henderson, 19, the only Scottish modern apprentice working in numismatics - the study of coins - has won the scheme's outstanding achievement award and continuing personal development award.
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Research prepares to feel the pinch
Research chiefs are bracing themselves for a spending squeeze as the Treasury tightens its belt. The councils are working on their joint bid for the spending review 2004 but the forecast from the...
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UK universities 'too poor' to secure framework funding
Martin Ince British universities are too poorly funded to take advantage of the €17.5 billion (£12 billion) on offer under the European Union Framework 6 programme, the government has admitted. The...