400 en suite studies to be built at Plymouth
* A new Pounds 9 million development of more than 400 en suite study bedrooms is to be built at the University of Plymouth in a partnership with Jarvis plc, a construction, property and facilities...
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Soap powder firm gives Pounds 500,000 for complex
* Consumer goods firm Procter and Gamble this week donated Pounds 500,000 to Royal Holloway, University of London, to help build a Pounds 1.8 million sports complex at the college's Egham campus,...
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NUS gets Stirling's vote of confidence
* Stirling University students have voted to stay in the National Union of Students. More than a fifth of the university's students voted in the referendum and 73 per cent of these voted to stay in...
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St Andrews to fight rape claim student
* St Andrews University has announced its "firm intention" to defend any action brought against it by former student Erin MacLean, who says she was raped while on an exchange course in the Ukraine in...
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Argentina and Britain sign education treaties
* Carlos Menem, president of Argentina, has today approved six new treaties with Britain to improve cooperation in science and education. They include a Pounds 2 million, ten-year Argentine studies...
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Women claimed to have part of brain missing
* Male graduates are twice as likely to find themselves unemployed as females, a conference heard this week. Delegates at the Institute of Personnel and Development's annual gathering were told that...
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Retraining money to benefit British workers
* British workers at risk of redundancy may benefit from a Pounds 160 million European investment to help them retrain. Employment minister Andrew Smith revealed this week that Britain is well on the...
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Biotech wizard warns against City sharks
Biotechnology entrepreneur Chris Evans has warned that a fizzling out of the City's enthusiasm for science-based companies could slash the value of established biotechnology companies and new spin-...
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Innovative firms grow at a faster rate than non-innovators
* A survey by the Office for National Statistics has found that innovative firms grow at a faster rate than non-innovators. Large companies are also three times as likely to be innovators as small...
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Contest for venture capital funds heats up
The first round of the new university challenge fund has attracted 45 entries to date, science minister Lord Sainsbury told a Royal Society conference this week, writes Julia Hinde. He said that more...
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Scientists get richer pickings
The Medical Research Council is the big winner in the science budgets for the next three years as the government ploughs more funds into genome research. The increase in funding for the MRC, which...
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Cancer unit at Cambridge opens in 2001
Part of the Medical Research Council's new money will go to establishing a new cancer unit in Cambridge. The unit, to be run jointly by the MRC and the Cancer Research Campaign, aims to bridge the...
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Computer brain unit opens
A major research centre on the brain opened at University College London, this week. It will perform highly theoretical research. The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, which will employ 100...
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Dispute leaves staff penniless
More than 30 nurse tutors formerly based at the University of Portsmouth are without salaries or redundancy pay and are unlikely to get either before Christmas because of a dispute between the...
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Golden hellos to lure recruits to teaching
Graduates laid off from jobs in industry are being offered the chance to retrain as maths and science teachers as part of the government's Pounds 130 million bid to tackle the slump in teaching...