45% is a 'realistic' access target
The need for two-year higher education courses would disappear if the 50 per cent participation target were reduced by just 5 percentage points, education experts said this week. Other initiatives...
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IoP invites prince to meet 'grey-goo' experts
The Institute of Physics is planning to invite Prince Charles to a seminar on nanotechnology. The organisation is keen to encourage an informed discussion following reports that the prince has asked...
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Lecturers to act on campus racist lobby
Lecturers' union leaders are threatening legal action against university managers who fail to crack down on racist activities. As tensions grew over campus-based campaigning by the British National...
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Students lack basic skills to tackle university study
Students ain't what they used to be - and that's official. A survey of UK deans of science shows that an overwhelming majority believe the elementary knowledge and mathematical and practical skills...
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Scots HE offers role model
The government should heed the lessons learnt in Scottish further and higher education as it takes forward plans to expand HE through FE colleges in England, a new report says. Scotland has not only...
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Your book or your wife
Peter Atkins made an unusually heartfelt appeal for universities to recognise the stresses and strains of authorship at a City University conference on the management of intellectual property this...
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Not so bare-naked ladies
Loughborough University art students answered an emergency call from a group of women of a certain age who wanted to bare all in a fire station for a charity calendar. The women, aged between 35 and...
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Rare sight for twitchers
Eager birders at the University of East Anglia, which has a thriving twitcher culture, were able to tick off a rare white stork without leaving the campus this week. The bird, part of a small influx...
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In a spin for degree in Italy
Is Italy following the fashion for "Mickey Mouse" degrees? For a mere €3,000 (£2,000), the University of Perugia is offering, jointly with a commercial FM station, a masters in disc jockeying. It...
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Don's diary: Seeing the American dream in Bruce's butt
Thursday There's war in Iraq and I am going to a conference on pop music. It is hard to suppress the sense of superficiality but, of course, music matters too - maybe more so in times such as these....
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Why I...believe global business offers us nothing - and at an ever higher cost
Jenny Sanders is a freelance writer with a background in social science In a provocative address to British sociologists, George Ritzer, distinguished professor of sociology at the University of...
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Make truth the target
Prince Charles must not bring his prejudice to the nanotechnology debate, writes Ian Gibson When the Prince of Wales warned this week that nanotechnology posed potentially "enormous environmental and...
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Framework calls for teamwork
New research rules give universities more freedom, but also bring more risk, says Richard Tomlin Universities witnessed scenes of frenetic activity as the deadline approached for the first round of...
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Marine & Freshwater Microbial Biodiversity: small grants
Deadline: 01/09/2003
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Proteomics and Cell Function Initiative
Deadline: 14/07/2003