Northeast cashes in on access money
* A consortium of universities in the Northeast has secured Pounds 1.7 million from the Higher Education Funding Council to encourage more young people to enter higher education.
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Warwick teams up for net venture
The University of Warwick has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States to launch a business management centre that will specialise in electronic commerce. The $40 million centre...
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Dental training gets megabytes
A two-year dental training partnership project that uses video, computers and the web to deliver course material any time, any where has been launched in Manchester. The DentalTec project is a...
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Lawyer warns Scots of intellectual property minefield
A specialist lawyer has warned Scotland's universities to guard against complacency over the ownership of potentially lucrative ideas from staff and students. Fiona Nicolson, who heads the...
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Drop in on Hackney
Residents of the London borough of Hackney can now refashion their local environment online. The borough's sites have been captured on an interactive website - a collaboration between the Hackney...
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New Network head
Cliff Allan, head of the teaching and learning group (policy division) at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, has been appointed programme director of the new Learning and Teaching...
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RNIB launches website
A website providing a range of information for blind and partially sighted students has been launched by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. The site features specialist technology with large...
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Bob a job
Graduates hunting for jobs could earn a Pounds 250 bonus if they register at a new recruitment website and subsequently land a job. A powerful search engine at Bob (best of the best) enables...
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COOL business
Sheffield Hallam University has received Pounds 1.4 million worth of software licences for specialised development of e-business solutions. The licences from Sterling Software's application...
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Cell science
The University of Naples and Telecom Italia have launched a masters in cellular telephony. The course is for economics, law and engineering graduates and aims to probe the legal, economic and...
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Making the case for more cash from Mr Brown
University and college leaders are preparing their case for more investment in higher education in chancellor Gordon Brown's spending review, SR2000, which will cover 2002-05. The chancellor wants...
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A foreign country with hostile border controls
Â鶹less people face formidable financial and administrative barriers to gain access to higher education, says Carolyn Hayman Think of homeless young people and the image that comes to mind is of...
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Why I want more inner-city youngsters to go to our top universities
I have been very impressed by the experience of Peter Lampl's Sutton Trust. Over the past two years, it has worked with hundreds of inner-city youngsters to widen their horizons by bringing them on...
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Readers' reactions
Previously in The THES...John Kingman said academic pay and conditions must improve to preserve the UK science base My experience is that there is a perceptible decrease in the quality of both PhD...
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A foot in both camps
Art, music, drama and business lecturers should have short contracts and work outside the academy, says Christopher Frayling A couple of weeks ago, I was phoned about a league table, compiled by...