Professor backs medical merger
The strategy to boost research in a new London medical school could also benefit undergraduate teaching, given "vision and great managerial expertise", according to Peter Richards, dean of St Mary's...
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College loses appeal against racism
Kingsway College, a further education college in central London, has lost its appeal against a tribunal decision last November that it discriminated against a lecturer on the grounds of his race and...
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Welsh colleges urged to sign deal for careers advice
Further education students have the right to expect "informed supportive and timely careers guidance" according to the 1993 Further Education Charter. Implementing that target for students in Wales...
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Metamorphosis
(Photograph) - Metamorphosis: Edinburgh's former psychiatric hospital, Craighouse, is being redeveloped as a fourth campus for Napier University. The university has launched a campaign to raise...
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Masters in legal studies proposed
A broader and more intellectually rigorous approach to vocational training for lawyers that could usher in a new master's programme, has been proposed by the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on...
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Academic staff in dark on cash decisions
Open and accountable decision-making in universities should be enshrined in legislation or funding conditions, the Council for Academic Autonomy has recommended. The pressure group says such...
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Marsden makes scanner advance
A state-of-the-art Pounds 1.5 million magnetic resonance scanner installed this week at the Royal Marsden National Health Service Trust will give cancer researchers better and more detailed...
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Fawcett turned full on
On August 11 1994 the world-famous Fawcett Library, in the basement of London Guildhall University's Calcutta House, came within four minutes of "major mould". Heavy rainfall that stopped tube trains...
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Procedure quibbles fail to halt pay talks
Further education employers and the two leading unions in the sector are to resume pay negotiations in spite of recent accusations that national procedures have been breached. Last week Natfhe, the...
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Scottish students to go still higher
The expansion of higher education is driving other changes in education and training, according to the Edinburgh University's centre for educational sociology. Its Scottish Young People's Survey...
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Director makes job U-turn
Southampton Institute is seeking redundancies just days after director David Leyland, publicly assured staff that their jobs were safe. The U-turn comes as the institute's Natfhe branch released a...
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Scots push own strengths
The Government's Technology Foresight programme must be tailored to Scottish needs, according to a discussion meeting of industrialists and academics organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh....
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AUT brushes up Euro lobby
The Association of University Teachers is to ask staff with expertise to monitor European programmes and report back to the Commission on their effectiveness. The move follows an AUT seminar on...
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Mistress carpenter: Filiz Civale-Uyar from the Visual and Islamic Arts Department of the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture
(Photograph) - Mistress carpenter: Filiz Civale-Uyar, an MA graduate from the Visual and Islamic Arts Department of the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture, shows off carvings inspired by...
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Research councils give Foresight response
A Pounds 10 million bioinformatics research programme, innovation as a business process and the interaction of genetics and environment in determining health are among the initiatives the six...