Disabilities aid call
More must be done to improve education for people with learning difficulties or disabilities, according to a report published this week by a Further Education Funding Council advisory committee. It...
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Gene therapy company to go public
Oxford Biomedica, a university-based spin-off company specialising in gene therapy, is set to raise Pounds 5 million in share capital and to become a publicly quoted company on the Alternative...
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Land of mine
Alumnus to be proud of No. 67 is the man who has invented his own country, Umberto Bossi of Italy's Northern League party. If he were to follow the example of Oxford man Cecil Rhodes, the people of...
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Mail and females
In the classic humorous recitation of one-line descriptions of national newspapers, the Daily Mail is listed as "read by the wives of the people who run the country". That identity as a women's paper...
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Graduates get back to business
The number of people taking the admission test for graduate business schools in the United States has risen for the first time since the late 1980s. Educators say the strong economic outlook is...
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All conservers need cash
Thank you for your article outlining the predicament of fine art conservation (THES, August 30). However, at this time of yet more deep cuts it is vital that the 25 plus undergraduate and...
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Accidental ecotourists
Julian Evans talks to Daniel Start, the leader of the Cambridge graduates held hostage in West Papua, about the dangers of scientific expeditions stumbling into complex political minefields. Wrapped...
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New sky line: Lincoln university
(Photograph) - New sky line: Lincoln University welcomes its first students this week, writes Chris Johnston. The project is the first purpose-built city-centre campus in Britain in 25 years. Public...
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Bob a job
A notice at Birmingham University offers commerce and social sciences students Pounds 12.50 a day to meet "prospective students and parents". Someone has added the word "their" before "parents"...
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Exploited exports
Planning a spot of winter sun? Seduced by brochures displaying a bronzed couple strolling hand in hand across a beach? Beware. You have fallen not only for sea and sun but for sexual stereotyping. A...
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AUT meeting
The Association of University Teachers and signatories to an agreement aimed at improving career management of contract researchers, are to hold a conference next week to discuss the implications....
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Own quality system means Scots suffer
Maxwell Irvine, who this week left his post as principal of Aberdeen University to become vice chancellor of Birmingham University, claims Scottish higher education institutions are suffering through...
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Wonderful weirs save Cornish wetlands from running out of water
The largest lowland heath and wetlands area in the south-west has been saved from running dry by Plymouth University researchers. Geographical scientists and civil engineers from the university have...
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Harvard toppled as pick of pops
Harvard University has been toppled from first place in the US News and World Report magazine's rankings of America's best colleges after a six-year tenure. Harvard fell from first to third behind...
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Terms of no endearment
Ursula Riniker (THES, September 13) seems to imagine that poor employment terms in United Kingdom universities are confined to foreign language assistants. In fact, they apply to the growing numbers...