British Library's research arm transfer
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport is proposing the transfer of the British Library's research arm to the Library and Information Commission. The department says the move will enhance the...
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Wonk's return
When cabinets reshuffle, the ripples shift their policy advisers and fixers around as well. No problem for Iain Mackenzie, former University of East Anglia student union president and Southampton...
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Insanity expert
University press officers are always keen to present problems as opportunities. But even so the University of Central England appeared to be accentuating the positive to an astonishing degree when it...
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Tavistock squelch
While the rest of London was wondering whether it was permissible to go to work in shorts and T-shirts last week, headquarters staff at the Association of University Teachers and the Committee of...
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Spooky office
It is tempting to read a lot into the recent move by the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority into the former MI6 headquarters overlooking Buckingham Palace. Why, for example, does the...
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Political sex
While people pushing porn over the Internet are unlikely to be terribly selective about their choice of customers, it would still be interesting to know why those issuing an invitation to "View...
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Economically truish
Possibly taking their cue from memories of the furore created in the early 1980s when Sir Keith Joseph forced the Social Science Research Council to transform itself into the less trendy-lefty...
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Three Starr
Without the efforts of alumnus to be proud of No 185 it is highly unlikely that Monica Lewinsky could have given a new meaning to the concept of parading one's dirty washing in public. According to...
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Pig knowledgeable
(Photograph) - Andrew Sheppard, an investigation officer with the University of Exeter's Agricultural Economics Unit, has just conducted a survey which found that 30 per cent of sows farrow in...
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Cash fears dominate clearing
Universities are braced for a wave of student finance inquiries as they fill courses. Alan Thomson reports THIS year university admissions officers dealing with clearing will be expected to answer...
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Architects attack research chiefs
HEADS of schools of architecture fear the new Arts and Humanities Research Board is placing the discipline "out on a limb" because of the way it has chosen to categorise the subject, writes Kam Patel...
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Academy for social science
SOCIAL scientists are to be offered a source of academic gossip to rival never-ending speculation about the research assessment exercise. The Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences...
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Flexible study tailored to clients
In the third of our series, Olga Wojtas looks at access to higher education in Scotland Elaine Crawford left school with five O-grades, aged 15, and ended up working in accounts in a Scottish hotel...
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Scheme seeks to demystify campus experience
In the third of our series, Olga Wojtas looks at access to higher education in Scotland About 100 students are on the nine-week summer school organised by Leaps, Lothian's Equal Access Programme for...
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Working class hurt by naivety
A study of more than 700 sixth-formers and their families in south-east Wales has revealed why working-class status is still such a deep disadvantage for many potential university students. Middle-...