OU law degree notches up over 900 students
THE OPEN University's first law degree course has attracted more than 900 students. Launched last year in collaboration with the College of Law, it is now Britain's largest undergraduate law degree...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk. EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www2.echo.lu IT(esprit) Contact:...
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Cambridge out to attract more ethnic minorities
Cambridge University has published a special prospectus aimed at encouraging more black and Asian teenagers to apply.
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New graduate school for Staffs
Staffordshire University opened a new graduate school this week to coordinate all postgraduate education and research.
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Brain power
(Photograph) - Brain power: the first issue of The THES's new Research section, out this week, starts with biomedicine, the biggest research sector, which is now being transformed by new technology...
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Cranfield set for one-off teaching funding cut
Cranfield University faces a one-off 5 per cent reduction in its Pounds 10.5 million funding for teaching after a funding council study of specialist institutions.
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Food Standards Agency plans dished up
The government this week unveiled its long-awaited plans for the Food Standards Agency. The white paper, initially expected in October or November last year, is expected to give the new agency a key...
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Asian crisis to cost Pounds 300m
British universities are redirecting their overseas recruitment efforts as they prepare for a collapse in their Asian Tigers market. Institutions in the United Kingdom stand to lose over Pounds 300...
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Labs net Pounds 80m from fund's swollen coffers
Universities have secured almost Pounds 80 million for new state-of the-art research equipment thanks to the success of a public/private initiative, though this is far less than the Pounds 474...
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Pounds 230m IT training package for teachers
Education and Employment secretary David Blunkett this week announced a Pounds 230 million package to equip 450,000 practising school-teachers with information and communication techn-ology skills.
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Fact file
The Higher Education statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: Of first-degree humanities graduates who went into work: 20 per cent went into management and administrative work 26 per...
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Bite-sized and perfectly pitched advice
HOW TO PUBLISH IN BIOMEDICINE - 500 Tips for Success. By Jane Fraser. Redcliffe Medical Press, 216pp, Pounds 16.50. ISBN 1 85775 193 0. How to write a bookreview? Answer in ten questions. 1. What is...
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Staff take hols so Cern can hire young
Staff at Cern, Europe's particle physics laboratory, have reacted to massive budget reductions by taking extended holidays and pay cuts so that young researchers can be employed, writes Julia Hinde....
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Bett wins top pay review job
TOP industrialist Sir Michael Bett is to chair the new independent pay review committee for higher education, recommended in the Dearing report, it was announced yesterday. Sir Michael, first civil...
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Call for fresh review in 2002
THE government must commit itself to another review of higher education in five years' time to gauge the effects of higher education reforms and to consider new ones, MPs will be told next week. Nick...