Fellowships
The London Institute. Honorary fellowships have been conferred on: John Hegarty, creative director and chairman of Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty, a graduate of the London College of Printing; Bill...
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Grants
University of Reading. Research contracts Dr S. Maybank, Pounds 50,000 from the Defence Research Agency (raising collision alert by tracking traffic); Dr S. Belcher, Pounds 43,324 from the Defence...
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Anti-gay message to medics
CAMBRIDGE University medical school has come under attack for its admissions procedure, which members of the British Medical Association claim could be interpreted as discriminatory against gay men...
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Meacher, the preacher on taxes for a green world
SUSTAINABLE development is unobtainable unless there is a world shift in production and consumption, environment minister Michael Meacher said yesterday in this year's Natural Environment Research...
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Physicist sues for libel on Internet
A BRITISH physicist has sued two United States universities for libel over Internet messages posted from their computer systems. Laurence Godfrey, described as a lecturer in physics, mathematics and...
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Fillip for state-funded scientists
A THIRD of United States patents filed in 1996 cited scientific papers, 75 per cent of which were produced by public-funded research centres, such as universities or government laboratories, writes...
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Tighter rules on title use
TIGHTER rules on the use of the title "university" were introduced by the government this week with the warning that anyone ignoring them could face court action. The regulations do not make title...
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Low fees policy upsets balance
Quebec and British Columbia are the odd men out in Canada where other provinces have let student tuition fees spiral since 1995. They have kept fees low for political motives but are starting to...
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Bilingual ban hits teachers
Bilingual teacher training faces an uncertain future in the United States with the passage of Proposition 2, which all but bans bilingual teaching in California schools, writes Tim Cornwell. The...
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Try Suharto, students demand
MUSLIM students led protesters outside the Indonesian parliament last week demanding that former president Suharto be tried for corruption. Their action is one of many across the archipelago by...
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Congress cuts loan interest rates
STUDENTS applying for loans in the United States this summer will be the first to gain from a cut in their interest rates approved by Congress. But a student lobbyist who helped pass the measure...
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Governors need business nous
Whistleblowers at Anglia Polytechnic University have now asked the Higher Education Funding Council for England to intervene to examine their complaints. At St Austell College, education secretary...
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Lords must leap to grants defence
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill is now through the House of Commons. During its progress the government has used its majority to strip out two amendments inserted by the House of Lords against...
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Trivial tabloid headlines mar quality debate
"IT IS time," thundered the leader writer (THES, June 5) "to restate a few big things". Sadly, the thunder died away into the misty drizzle of introspection that has characterised The THES's approach...
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Help offer for Glasgow
THE Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine and, specifically, the orthoptists board, was fully aware of the Higher Education Quality Council audit visit to Glasgow Caledonian University...