1998 who made a splash?
Claire Sanders reflects on the stories and people who made the news last year January The legacy of Lord Dearing's inquiry into higher education dominated 1998.It began with the Teaching and Higher...
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Colour coding helps premature babies
Doctors and scientists at a Liverpool hospital are using high-tech monitoring systems in an attempt to give the tiniest and most vulnerable premature babies a better chance of life. Specialists in...
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CVCP to review role of colleges
The role of further education colleges in higher education will be looked at by the working group reviewing the structure of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, writes Tony Tysome. The...
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Spooks on the surface
THE ELECTRONIC PRIVACY PAPERS. By Bruce Schneier and David Banistar. Wiley Computer Publishing. 747pp Pounds 50.00. IBSN 0 471 12297 1 Subtitled Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of...
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Microsoft heads off rental scheme revolt
Microsoft is attempting a swift rewrite of a software rental contract that United Kingdom academic negotiators regarded as "legally dangerous". The software vendor was unprepared for the revolt that...
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Sir Alec Broers
An enthusiastic ice-skater, sailor and singer, Sir Alec Broers has always emphasised the importance to universities of involvement in the real world and having fun. When he became vice-chancellor of...
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Rome
An opposition MP has demanded that Italy's premier justify an annual payment of 79,000 euros (Pounds 55,000) assigned to the rector of La Sapienza University in July by the board of directors....
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Washington
United States universities and colleges have begun a campaign to persuade families that, with sacrifices, they can still afford a higher education. The "College is Possible" campaign does not address...
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A chief from abroad?
The repute of the new Institute for Learning and Teaching appears to have spread, even a good four months before it is due to be up and running this April. Originally, the closing date for applicants...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Admissions week. A year of letter writing, school visits, sixth-form conferences and open days has all been leading up to this point, and now 14 young classicists are about to descend on St...
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Research assessment chairs
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has announced the following chairs of unit of assessment panels for the 2001 research assessment exercise. Asterisks mark chairs unchanged since 1996'...
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Praise to juvenile efforts
'We should all be writing for children. We've gotta get them young,' said Harvey Kaye. He got the chance and found it hard but rewarding work. The Christmas and Chanukah holiday season seems a most...
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Hungarian-language teaching in Romania
Hungarian-taught higher education for Romania's Hungarian minority was promised in the 1997 Hungary-Romanian Treaty of Friendship. To allay Romanian fears of Hungarian irredentism, the Romanian...
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Brest
Seven students from Brest National Engineering School are the first to be convicted under a new French law against violent initiation rites traditionally carried out against freshers, especially in...
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Murder charges have been dropped after more than two years against Nancy Morrison, a professor of medicine at Dalhousie University and a respirologist at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre...