Foresight bids are shortlisted
The Office of Science and Technology has invited 63 research groups out of more than 500 applicants to prepare full-scale bids for funding under the Foresight Challenge Competition. The competition...
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Scots funding squeeze eases
Exhaustion with new initiatives in Scottish higher education has led to a slight easing of a tough funding round for the coming session. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has set out the...
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Bath scholars to clean up in scrum for rugby players
Bath University, one of the pioneers of British sports scholarships in the 1970s, is to set up a dedicated rugby scheme in partnership with the city's club. The first scholar, second-year mechanical...
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Long-term project
Alumnus to be proud of no 28 is Sir John Daniel, vice chancellor of the Open University and possessor of a fine collection of degrees including an Oxford BA and a University of Paris doctorate. But...
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Fuming resources
The Royal Society of Edinburgh has this week been replying to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's inquiry into environmental standards. It stresses the importance of continued research...
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Rugby matched
There was an extra touch of chemistry during Scotland's rugby performances at its Five Nations matches in Ireland last weekend. Scotland's team included Craig Joiner, a third-year chemical...
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Married to the mock
The sight of Professor Floud with smoke metaphorically pouring from his ears also caused a stir at a recent LGU graduation ceremony. His attack on the Government went down rather well, except with...
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Floud of smoke
NatWest was not the only City of London institution inconvenienced when its tower block caught fire spectacularly last week. London Guildhall University had chosen that day for a photoshoot on the...
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Act up
English delegates were impressed by the Glasgow Caledonian students who were found around the campus during the conference, claiming that they appeared particularly mature and studious. More cynical...
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Flushed out
The Higher Education Quality Council apparently expected fewer than the 150 delegates who turned up for its annual SCOTCAT conference in Glasgow Caledonian University. Signs on the lavatory doors...
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Quality body role to be debated
Key questions about the role of the proposed new higher education quality agency and the nature of quality in universities and colleges are to be addressed before the body is set up, it emerged this...
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Hybrid discipline to treat offenders
Rising violence and a disintegrating criminal justice system signal the need for a new discipline aimed at treating offenders rather than at just judging and then punishing them, psychiatrists say...
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Forth acts on PFI concerns
University heads are working with ministers to "expose" the weaknesses of the Private Finance Initiative in higher education, it was claimed this week. Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has...
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Medical schools set to scoop record investment
King's College London and the United Medical and Dental Schools are looking to clinch the biggest deal so far under the Government's Private Finance Initiative worth Pounds 125 million. The two...
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THESIS
An electronic book search service, Out of Print, is now available on THESIS, The THES Internet Service. THESISprovides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements,...