Deadlock continues over siting of X-ray source
Trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers was this week frantically attempting to find a means of ending the impasse over the siting of the United Kingdom's new synchrotron source. The Pounds 550...
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'Closed' centre launches new MSc
A postgraduate centre, effectively closed by Edinburgh University in 1996, has launched the first MSc course of the third millennium, a stone's-throw from its former premises. The Centre for Human...
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Tribunal decision
A college head of department who was sacked following accusations she made lesbian advances towards two of her staff has won her unfair dismissal claim. Mary Collins, former head of the school of...
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Lecturers 'victimised'
Cricklade College lecturer Andrew Murray was sacked for blowing the whistle on the mismanagement of European grants, an employment tribunal heard this week. The tribunal took place as the full extent...
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Cornish 'campus' plans unveiled
The latest plans for a university in Cornwall will be announced next week, after years of wrangling over sites. The "hub" of the project is now believed to be at Tremough, near Penryn, where Falmouth...
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Melton 'comedy of errors'
"The governing body have been advised that there did not appear to be any truth in the allegation." This was how governors at Melton Mowbray College announced the establishment of an independent...
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New body may feel old pains
Proposals for a new Health Professions Council have drawn some strong and opposing views. Claire Sanders reports. A bitter response has greeted a long-awaited consultation document on a new Health...
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Teamwork to develop patient aid
Medical professionals are collaborating with computer scientists on a project that aims to give back the power of communication to severely incapacitated patients in intensive care units. Ian...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Ended the last century with chronic fatigue: 1999 saw the birth of my son Max, a move to a bigger house and the publication of my life of Lord Goodman. Began new century with flu when the...
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Home truths
Reassuring news for staff at Liverpool John Moores University, where rumours have been flying since vice-chancellor Peter Toyne announced his retirement: his replacement will not be Mike Fitz-gerald...
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Sally Feldman
Workplace battles seem to have dogged Sally Feldman, former editor of Woman's Hour and now dean of the school of media at the London College of Printing. She gained her spurs in 1990, fighting to...
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Eco forms school for a'software universe'
ROME Italy's superstar semiologist and Nobel prizewinner Umberto Eco has become the founder and first president of a new school of excellence in his native Bologna. Professor Eco said: "I am thinking...
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Schroder rejects fees but states favour them
BONN German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder has tackled the growing controversy over student fees among his ruling Social Democrat Party by clearly rejecting fees - at least for first degrees. "The...
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Cynics slam Clinton's tax ploy
BOSTON President Clinton has been accused of election-year politicking over his proposal for massive tax breaks and financial aid to make college more affordable for children from middle-class...
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On the move
Adrian Webb, vice-chancellor of the University of Glamorgan, became chairman of the Heads of Higher Education in Wales this week following the early retirement of John O. Williams. He also becomes...