Quick action thwarts sleeping sickness
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine helped save the life of a tourist suffering from deadly sleeping sickness contracted in a Zambian game park. The school supplied the drug suramin to the...
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Search for life 'out there' gets UK home
The UK's first Centre for Astrobiology will open its doors next week. The centre in Cardiff is a joint initiative between Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine. The...
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ILT welcomes its 2,000th member
Trisha Greenhalgh, a senior lecturer in primary healthcare at the Royal Free and University College medical school and a part-time GP, has become the 2,000th member of the Institute of Teaching and...
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Old ones that got away surface in Germany
Fossils of the earliest creature with a backbone, stolen from Scotland, could soon be returning after being discovered at a German university museum. Up to a dozen 430 million-year-old fossils of...
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Enrolments stalled by cost
Growth in enrolments at Welsh higher education institutions ground to a halt for all but postgraduate taught courses in 1998-99, the year fees were introduced and grants abolished. Data for 1998-99...
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Head of Ofsted 'monster' spits fire at committee of MPs
Ofsted chief inspector Chris Woodhead defended his controversial habit of commenting on education issues when he appeared before MPs this week. In often heated exchanges with MPs, he told the House...
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Threat to bursaries as bill is delayed
Scottish students risk missing out on bursaries next year because of an upheaval over the drafting of legislation on student support. The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning...
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Lecturers to go back to school in drive to lift standards
The government moved to raise the standards of teaching and management in further education colleges this week, announcing a compulsory professional training programme for all new lecturers and...
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Missing appeals unknown to chief
Bill Morton, acting head of the troubled Scottish Qualifications Authority, this week confessed that he had not known of its latest failure to meet deadlines, writes Olga Wojtas. The SQA has been...
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UCL students speak for UK in Berlin summit
Ten students from University College London will represent Britain at a summit in Berlin on youth and democracy in the European Union. The summit, which starts at the Freie Universitat Berlin on...
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Old guard in CVCP faces poll challenge
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals may have its first president from a post-1992 university. Roderick Floud, provost of London Guildhall University, is one of two candidates standing in...
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Motion for foetal cell research bill beaten
A controversial bill to extend the research uses of human foetal cells was rejected by Parliament this week, writes Alan Thomson. Liberal Democrat higher education and science spokesman Evan Harris,...
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Anti-begging plan comes under fire
A group of almost 60 social policy experts has criticised as "fundamentally misguided" a government campaign telling people not to give money to beggars. The open letter to the...
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Cambridge plans arts centre
Cambridge University is mounting an ambitious challenge to Oxford University's superiority in the arts and humanities. As the traditionally arts-dominated Oxford begins to challenge Cambridge's...
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Catholic fears at Glasgow
The head of the Catholic church in Scotland met senior Glasgow University staff last week to discuss concerns that the university's education faculty was not meeting the church's needs. Talks between...