Party probed on Eurothink
Labour politicians are to be questioned on their attitudes to Europe in a research project at Nottingham Trent University. Political scientists from the university have a Pounds 15,000 grant from the...
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Labour's on-line university
The first leg of Tony Blair's "knowledge race" appeared to be underway this week, with the launch of a development project on Labour's plans for a University for Industry. Almost 18 months after...
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Funding cuts hope
Scottish academics are hoping that Michael Forsyth, Secretary of State for Scotland, will help ease the higher education funding crisis after he gave union leaders a sympathetic hearing last week. Mr...
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Cavalier males court debt
Male students are less concerned about going into debt than female students and more prepared to contribute towards their mainte/nance costs, according to a student finance survey at Leicester...
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Award for best annual report
The University of St Andrews has won this year's THES/KPGM award for the best annual report from a United Kingdom university. The award was presented by Grant Macrae, senior partner in KPMG, in...
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Flu jabs advised
Medical academics are adding their weight to a national campaign urging "high risk" individuals to be vaccinated against flu as soon as possible. John Oxford, professor of virology at the London...
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Shiny new image does the business
How do applicants choose what to put on their UCAS forms? Alison Utley looks at the research and talks to sixth-formers. As sixth-formers around the country pore over higher education prospectuses in...
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More money than job skills
British students are graduating without the right job skills because universities are concentrating too hard on money-spinning recruitment and research priorities, according to a report commissioned...
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Engineering pay boom
The income of professional engineers and technicians has risen substantially over the past three years, according to a survey published this week. The study by the Engineering Council says that...
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Into the limelight
(Photograph) - Gilbert Smith (left), deputy director of research and development at the Department of Health and the National Health Service Executive and professor of social administration at the...
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Taxing traitor
Alumni to be proud of nos 12 and 13 are two contrasting Labour Party members. Liz Davies, who did not pay her poll tax, voted against the Labour whip twice and was refused endorsement as a candidate...
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Lucky numbers
Antithesis has a handy hint for the National Lottery Charities Board, which has been criticised for its high running costs. The board could cut its public relations postal budget by three quarters by...
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Streetwise
Who would you trust the numbering of our houses to: a mathematician, a philosopher, a writer, an architect or an "uncomplicated ordinary citizen"? J. N. Hunt, mathematician at Reading University, has...
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Bitter pill
From the British Medical Journal of 100 years ago, advice to school leavers contemplating studying medicine: "No one will deny that the prizes are great and that those who win them find their way...
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Warm dinners
Possibly despairing of more conventional means, Bourne-mouth University is going the literal-minded route to creating an academic hot-house - staff there report that their new dining room resembles...