Brown's budget bind
Loans sale may fund school vow The new Labour government will have to plunder money from the sale of student debt to pay for school and nursery pledges. Chancellor Gordon Brown's promise to stick...
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Radicals rule the roost, OK
Two former 1960s radicals have been given responsibility for further and higher education in the new Labour government. The seven-strong Education and Employment team, headed by Secretary of State...
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Election Antithesis
Think of it as a small but worthwhile "new blood" scheme for British universities: all of a sudden UEA needs a dean of biology, Essex needs a head of public relations and Bath is short of a professor...
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Aberystwyth biologists face cull after poor rating
Up to 18 jobs are under threat at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where a low score in the research assessment exercise has forced a shake-up in biological sciences, writes Julia Hinde...
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Germ warfare
(Photograph) - Germ warfare: Battles between bacteria are to be put under the microscope at the University of East Anglia thanks to a Pounds 950,000 grant from the Wellcome Trust. Scientists are to...
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Critic points to RAE defects
The 1996 research assessment exercise may lead to a damaging split between research and teaching in many institutions, says Ian McNay, head of the centre for higher education management at Anglia...
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Fender argues for open sharing
ACADEMICS feel their departments lose out on cash because institutions do not tell them enough about money matters, a funding council chief has warned. Brian Fender, chief executive of the Higher...
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Lobby calls for fees and VAT rethink
Removing the VAT burden on universities and transferring the job of paying student tuition fees from local education authorities to funding councils could generate savings of up to Pounds 60 million...
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How to save on journals
SITE licence schemes can save universities up to Pounds 30,000 a year on journal subscriptions and bring academic papers to a wider audience, a pilot project has found. Initial results from the UK...
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Blunkett ban on braille
David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, has appealed for people to write to him in normal print, rather than sending tapes or braille. He told his first press conference that...
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Ulster apologises to Rabbi Neuberger
The University of Ulster has apologised to its chancellor, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, following a public row over mixed-religion schools. It had distanced itself from Rabbi Neuberger after she criticised...
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Cone zone monitors target students
Wolverhampton University students are being targetted by West Midlands Police keen to see the return of more than 100 yellow traffic cones stolen from local streets. The police have launched a month-...
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Chris Brand tribunal adjourned
Edinburgh University has adjourned a tribunal on psychology lecturer Chris Brand to an unspecified date after failing to complete the hearing last Friday. Mr Brand has been suspended from teaching...
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CVCP likely to keep controversial pay body
THE Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals looks set to retain its controversial pay bargaining body with certain modifications. A review group, set up by the CVCP, is set to recommend that the...
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Solicitors may gain access to Inns of Court
SOLICITORS could join trainee barristers at The Inns of Court School of Law, which wants to expand its role. Since losing its monopoly on bar vocational courses last year, the school has been worried...