The Hodge dodge
Disgruntled ministers ousted in last week's reshuffle could do worse than step into Margaret Hodge's shoes as chair of the potentially powerful education and employment select committee. After all...
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Coarse details
Organisers of a new women's history MA at the University of Essex had a shock last week after a press release designed to boost recruitment landed them with a full page in the Daily Star. The article...
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Sainsbury for science
Department of Trade and Industry officials are peeved that higher education minister Baroness Blackstone spilled the beans on the identity of the new science minister. The new science supremo, Lord...
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On the Tuscan trail
It is reassuring to know that despite the Labour government's attempts to woo the Liberal Democrats by redrawing the political map there are still small but crucial differences between the two...
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Secret surfers
Plans by Peter Mandelson to reveal "Surfball: The New 21st Century Sport" appear to be floundering. Asked by culture committee MPs probing the Dome project for details about this extraordinary new...
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Hutton's googly
Alumnus to be proud of No 184 recently launched himself on the world as a higher education policy pundit. Richard Hutton, previously known as the son of the more famous Sir Leonard and editor of the...
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'Sex with students was perk of the job'
JEAN NORRIS, whose lecturer husband has had more than one affair with a student and has now left her for one, wants to set up a support group for other women in her position. Paul Norris, a social...
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Women lose out on leisure
YOU arrive home late from a long day's lecturing. What is the first thing you do? Go to the gym or evening class? Watch television? Or start getting the children's supper ready, help them with...
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Funding threatens access aim
Widening participation is back on top of the agenda. Alan Thomson opens a series on the issue The introduction of tuition fees and the scrapping of maintenance grants will close doors to higher...
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What Romans did in war
THROUGH films such as Spartacus and Alexander the Great, Hollywood has relentlessly pushed the image of ancient Roman and Greek warfare as an unspeakably bloodthirsty affair, with literally thousands...
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Milky Way in suburbia
ASTRONOMERS have confirmed that Earth is just a little planet in the suburbs of an average galaxy. A team from Sussex and Glasgow universities has measured the size of the Milky Way and found it to...
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Thinness blights world
The global media is spreading eating disorders in non-western cultures, say Leicester University researchers. Psychiatrist Mervat Nasser, author of Culture and Weight Consciousness, claims that...
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Tidal experts fly out
THREE Coventry University researchers have been called to Papua New Guinea to help pick up the pieces following the devastating tsunami. David Smith and Alastair Dawson, leading tidal wave experts...
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Wetland trailblazers
Biologists, historians and tourism experts from the United Kingdom and Ukraine are investigating the wildlife of the largest wetland in Europe, the Pripyat marshes in northwest Ukraine. They are also...
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Child labour for family
CUSTOMS are changing in Zambia because poverty is driving families to rely on their children's income, Coventry University researchers have found. When parents divorce, children used to stay with the...