Call for comments on plan for more doctors
Universities are being asked to comment on the recommendation that the UK needs to train an extra 1,000 doctors a year. The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee, chaired by Nottingham...
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He or she who hesitates performs badly
Students who procrastinate suffer more ill health and do significantly worse academically than their non-procrastinating colleagues. Research from the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, United...
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Women economists discuss scarcity
Women are "seriously under-represented" in economics, research by the Royal Economics Society has found. Women make up 30 per cent of students training for economics doctorates but only 15 per cent...
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Imperial team scoops Pounds 1,000 biotech prize
A team of undergraduates from Imperial College, London last week won a competition aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship among young biotechnology researchers. Imperial's team produced a business...
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Europeans fear loss of electronic publications
The importance of storing electronically published research findings and papers so that they can be easily accessed was underlined this week by Academia Europaea when its representatives met Sir...
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Teacher training in schools gets bad report
School-based teacher training courses, much hailed by the Teacher Training Agency, are not working, the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers has claimed. An Ofsted report on the Oxford...
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MA candidate appeals against 'plagiarism'
Kamran Beg, 26, who was denied his Cambridge University MA following accusations of plagiarism, has won leave in the High Court for a judicial review of Cambridge's disciplinary procedure. Beg, 26,...
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Millett takes teachers back to basics
Some university teacher training departments are far behind the best and risk losing accreditation and funds, Teacher Training Agency chief executive Anthea Millet said this week. Launching a...
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Blackstone calls for research cash boost
BRITAIN should spend more on research and treat it as a long-term investment, says higher education minister Baroness Blackstone, writes Julia Hinde. The minister, who last year felt the wrath of...
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Waiting for Gordon
HIGHER education minister Baroness Blackstone admitted to the House of Commons science and technology committee last week that at times she felt "ashamed" of the equipment in university science...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Cardiff The following former readers have been awarded personal chairs: Michael Bloor, school of social and administrative studies; Kenneth Broadley, Welsh school of pharmacy;...
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Grants
University of Strathclyde. Charities Dr I. Uchegbu, Pounds 49,736 from Wellcome Trust (the development of novel multi-component non-ionic surfactant vesicles (niosomes) for the controlled delivery of...
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Rise and rise of the middle classes
HIGHER education across Europe continues to be dominated by the middle classes, despite general growth in student numbers, a study has found. Low levels of participation in higher education among...
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Eurocrats bicker over shape of Framework5
THE European Parliament is taking legal advice on whether it can force the European Commission to withdraw its modified plans for science research. If the advice, due at the end of this week, says...
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Overseas act cleansed
SWANSEA Institute is to axe all its courses in Malaysia and Indonesia in a move to clean up its overseas operations. The academic board has called for the withdrawal of 18 franchised courses...