Asylum worries stop academics
British government paranoia over asylum seekers is hindering the movement of academics, claim organisers of a conference on the Yugoslav crisis held in Bradford last week. Bob Jiggins, a lecturer in...
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Inside story
(Photograph) - Inside story: prison officers at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, are able to assist in the health care of inmates following an NVQ course developed by Coventry University, the prison...
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Marxist era dawns in Glasgow
The University of Glasgow has appointed a professor of Marxist studies. The personal chair, thought to be unique in the United Kingdom, goes to Hillel Ticktin, an expert on political economy and the...
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Leicester's v-c thinks globally and locally
Ask an academic to list members of the Russell Group of elite research universities and Leicester will probably be on the list. In fact, Leicester University is not a Russell Group institution, but...
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Don's diary
December 1998 Research funding, an important part of any academic's life but I am not exactly sure how I am going to get any. I have a limited amount of funding for my research in Namibia, but the...
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Dishing dirt on Scots
Devolution has led to a resurgence of national culture north of the border. But has it gone too far? Allan MacInnes, head of Aberdeen University's history department, has started a Northern European...
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In the bad books
John Sutherland, the Lord Northcliffe professor of modern English literature at University College London, this week revealed in his Guardian column that his copy of Sylvia Plath's Ariel is 37 years...
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Words of honour
John Taylor, director general of research councils, continues to be highly unpopular because of his handling of the siting of the synchrotron. The government has announced it will be based at...
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Passport to nowhere
Just how US chemist Linus Pauling missed determining the structure of DNA was revealed by Maurice Wilkins at the opening of the building named after him and Rosalind Franklin, who obtained much of...
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In the news
Political observers had predicted that Claude Allegre would be sacked as education minister in the French government reshuffle at the end of March. Few, however, had foreseen that his replacement...
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On the move
Michael Brown, pro vice-chancellor of De Montfort University, is to be the new vice-chancellor and chief executive of Liverpool John Moores University. He will take up the appointment this summer....
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Glittering prizes
The Templeton Foundation in New York has announced that it will award the Templeton prize for progress in religion to the physicist Freeman J. Dyson. The award is given for originality in advancing...
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Send in the history platoon
Harvey Kaye suggests how American scholars might help represent European history in the 'Museum of Europe' To help keep the peace, it looks like we Americans may need to send not only combat troops...
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Florence
A study at the University of Florence has revealed that only 10 per cent of all full professors there are female, compared with 35 per cent of researchers - the lowest category of university...
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Madrid
A prominent critic of Spain's higher education system will hold the country's first Unesco chair on university management and policy. Francisco Michavila, a former secretary general of the...