Following that Whitehall herd instinct
How culpable were scientists in the BSE fiasco? Steve Farrar and Caroline Davis dissect the Phillips report Close to the beginning of the BSE inquiry's 4,000-page report, it is noted: "At the heart...
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No victimisation?
Radiologist Peter Dawson was not victimised by his managers at Imperial College, London for raising the alarm about risks to patients and accounting inadequacies at Hammersmith Hospital. This is the...
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From today's UK press
FINANCIAL TIMES All new teachers at further education colleges will have to have a formal teaching qualification, the government has said THE GUARDIAN The government is seeking to speed up the...
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European business school 'beat US'
American business schools are out of touch and are being overtaken by their European counterparts when it comes to teaching management. This was the message from Leo Murray, director of Cranfield...
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Twist in Chaucer tale
Chaucer may have supervised parts of the making of one of the earliest manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales, researchers have discovered. Evidence in a digital facsimile of the "Hengwrt...
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King Alfred's College rethinks university aim
The new principal of King Alfred's College in Winchester has dropped plans for the college to become a university by 2006. Paul Light believes the target date set by his predecessor, John Dickinson,...
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Old oaks point to root of global warming
Oak trees near the queen's estate at Sandringham will assist Swansea University's geography department in investigating global warming. The department has received Pounds 34,000 from the Leverhulme...
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Scottish cities engage in age-old quarrel
The traditional rivalry between Edinburgh and Glasgow has taken a sombre turn with Glasgow University researchers' discovery that Glaswegians have a lower life expectancy than inhabitants of the...
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V-cs seek to identify ethnic bars in NHS
Vice-chancellors have launched a research project to help diversify the ethnic make-up of National Health Service staff. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals will commission research into...
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More turn to teaching, TTA head says
More people are changing career and turning to teaching, said Ralph Tabberer, head of the Teacher Training Agency. The first 500 graduate teacher programme places that became available at the start...
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Blunkett talks the talk on world English
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett this week used his Ashridge lecture to urge business leaders to make full use of the competitive advantage of the English language. English was &...
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Security fears cast doubt over lab plan
A pioneering neuroscience research centre at Cambridge University could be scuppered by fears of animal rights activism. Cambridgeshire Police and Girton College have raised serious objections...
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Students clock up Pounds 21m in unpaid fees
Universities were owed £21 million in unpaid tuition fees after the second year of student contributions, according to a survey by vice-chancellors. By July 2000, last year's students owed...
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Labour reveals 90,000 have benefited from New Deal
Almost 90,000 people have entered full-time education and training courses under the government's New Deal for the unemployed, according to latest figures, writes Phil Baty. Employment minister Tessa...
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Brown adds to inequality
Oxford admissions tutors fear that state school pupils may be deterred from applying to the university following chancellor Gordon Brown's remarks over the Laura Spence case, according to a new poll...