Doctors unprepared
More than 40 per cent of newly qualified doctors say that their medical training did not prepare them for work as a pre-registration house officer, a study by Oxford researchers published in the...
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Don't cut industry tie, Scots urge executive
Scotland's university principals are pressing for lifelong learning to be kept alongside enterprise under the new Scottish Executive. In last Thursday's Scottish parliamentary elections, Iain Gray,...
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Net may help voters
A St Andrews University computer science postgraduate is assessing the potential of e-voting to help avoid a repeat of the disappointing turnout in the Scottish elections, writes Olga Wojtas. Tim...
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Hodge warns of UK brain drain threat
Universities are being seriously weakened by the international brain drain, higher education minister Margaret Hodge warned last week. She told delegates at a science conference in London that...
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Sars hits Chinese intake
Thousands of Chinese students whose English-language tests have been cancelled due to the Sars crisis may have to defer taking up places for a year unless UK universities take over the process, the...
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Pilgrims flock to wrong location
The real Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia and is not the Egyptian mountain Jebel Musa visited by thousands of pilgrims and tourists every year, according to a respected scientist. Colin Humphreys,...
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Staff quit before they get ahead
Hundreds of young lecturers are quitting universities each year before their careers get off the ground, trade union Natfhe said this week. Figures show that 300 lecturers left academe last year...
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Findings: Decline in vCJD deaths
Any epidemic of variant CJD, the human form of the cattle brain disease BSE, may be much smaller than previously feared, according to new evidence, writes Natasha Gilbert. In a study published in the...
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Medical bursaries could avert recruitment crisis
Academics, medics, MPs and London's mayor attack the white paper's vision Medical students should get maintenance bursaries if the National Health Service is to avert a time bomb in the recruitment...
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Paper is short on 'long view'
Academics, medics, MPs and London's mayor attack the white paper's vision MPs look set to attack the government's higher education white paper for its lack of a coherent, longer-term vision. Members...
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Livingstone warns against diverting research funds
Academics, medics, MPs and London's mayor attack the white paper's vision Further research concentration will undermine most of the capital's universities and fail to meet employers' demands for a...
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Whistleblowers: Dismissal branded as grotesque and contrived
Lecturers are demanding the reinstatement of a professor sacked for alleged gross misconduct after 25 years at Liverpool John Moores University. Natfhe, the lecturers' union, claimed the university...
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Whistleblowers: Protection matters
Employees who turn to the media to blow the whistle on malpractice or crime at work can win legal protection from victimisation, according to an analysis of cases in the first three years of the...
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Swansea gives size and speed priority
An audit of Swansea University's website by accessibility firm Nomensa showed it to have limited accessibility and not to be compliant with the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act. Despite a...
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Grant targets website access for the disabled
A new grants programme will help save the education community millions of pounds as it struggles to comply with strict accessibility legislation in the European Year of the Disabled. The EduServ...