In hot pursuit of cold stars
The mysterious, middle stages of star formation, which are shrouded from the astronomer because they happen inside a huge dust cloud, will be revealed by the European Space Agency's Infrared Space...
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Minerva's owl . . .
Glasgow University has just unveiled a new Pounds 500,000 library computer system that will increasingly allow direct electronic access to reference sources and research reports rather than citations...
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Northern exposure
Alumna to be proud of no 16 is our very own Alison Utley, listed in the Push Guide to Which University 96 as one of two famous Salford alumni (the other being much-capped Welsh rugby player Ieuan...
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Trying partner
Junior partners in academic takeovers tend to lose their distinctive identity, but the rugby team at West London Institute of Higher Education - now adhered to Brunel University as Brunel University...
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The missed of time
Dundee University's department of modern history this week launched the new Tayside and Fife Historical Research Institute. Chris Whatley, head of Dundee's department of modern history, explained...
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Put out to copy
Are there no limits to the compassion of the Natural Death Centre? Launched in 1991, it helps those who look after someone dying at home. And it organises "cheap, green and DIY funerals". Its concern...
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Pincer moves
Is Glasgow University attempting a flanking manoeuvre on Government funding? New principal Graeme Davies presumably knows, as former chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Right plight
Anyone for a cull of right-wing thinkers? Himself no socialist, Gray suggested at the conference that there is now an unfeasible surplus of believers in unfettered free market forces, while believers...
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That fellow
A meeting of minds at Saturday's posthumanism conference run by ECO, the political ecology campaigning group. Introducing speaker John Gray, chairman Alec Ponton said: "He sent me a note saying that...
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Teaching agency to set standards
National standards for teacher training and continuing professional development will be set by the Teacher Training Agency, it was announced this week. A programme for improving the quality of...
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Call for school maths inspectors
University mathematicians this week urged the Government to set up a mathematics inspectorate for schools to halt a serious decline in students' ability in the subject. Their call is a key...
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Labour lashes research policy
The Labour Party has warned that quality research is suffering under short-term policies. Speaking in a recent Parliamentary debate on science and technology, John Battle, then shadow science...
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Lecturers' merger move afoot
The Association of University Teachers put forward proposals for a joint membership scheme with lecturers' union Natfhe this week in what is seen as the first step towards a single union for higher...
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Mary Robinson, president of Ireland
(Photograph) - Irish precedent: Mary Robinson, president of Ireland, gave a lecture at the London School of Economics. on her recent visit to Britain where she met the Queen. She spoke on "Academic...
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Financiers meet their match
Universities wishing to meet private financiers to share mutual interests will be able to register with a higher education "dating agency" by next January. The funding councils, keen to push the...