Sussex University gets new v-c
ALASDAIR Smith, 49, is the new vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex. Professor Smith has been professor of economics at Sussex since 1981, after working at the London School of Economics, and...
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Junior ranks shift at DFEE
IT WAS all change among junior ranks at Westminster this week, as Tony Blair unveiled the results of his reshuffle. Minister of state John Battle dropped science from his portfolio, handing the brief...
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Clinical RAE inquiry
THE Higher Education Funding Council for England is setting up a working group to examine the particular problems associated with the research assessment exercise and clinical teaching and research,...
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Freedom fighter
(Photograph) - An Irian Jayanese student chants 'merdeka' (freedom) during demonstrations outside the United Nations headquarters in Jakarta, held to demand a referendum on independence for his...
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Appointments
National Review of Resource Allocation in the NHS Arthur Midwinter, professor and dean of arts and social sciences at the University of Strathclyde, has been appointed a member. University of...
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Fellowships
British Academy Ann Moss, professor of French at the University of Durham, has been elected a fellow. Royal Academy of Engineering Michael Kelly, head of the school of electronic engineering,...
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Schools ready for recruitment battle
Universities are developing some imaginative techniques to cash in on the increase in medical students, writes Alison Goddard. New medical schools, partnerships between existing schools and other...
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Bills and ills
Cambridge University has taken a combative approach to a barrage of criticism from the Campaign for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards, which criticised the university, and others, for spending...
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Doug digs in
Fans of former National Union of Students president Douglas Trainer will be happy to hear he has found himself closer to the seats of power than a place on a New Deal training programme. Trainer is...
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You're all right, Jack
Cheery tidings for former NUS press officer Tim Walker, who has taken the backstairs route to political power as Jack Cunningham's special adviser. Now in a new office close to the Chancellor of the...
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No place like Dome
To get an idea of the calibre of the man now in charge of British science, we need look no farther than Peter Mandelson's record so far as head of the Millennium Dome project, which he is keeping in...
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Glad to leave Leeds
Relieved to be on his train to London last Wednesday was Tom Wilson of the AUT, who had been speaking at a Leeds meeting of the National Union of Students. As the other speakers escaped he was...
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A robot to roam the brain
All in the head: THES reporters investigate the latest advances in brain surgery The Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technology at St Ingbert in Germany is coordinating the development of a robot...
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Surgeons get guiding hand
All in the head: THES reporters investigate the latest advances in brain surgery More than 300 people with brain tumours, benign head tumours and secondary cancers have benefited from the use of a...
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Arms and a Legg
The fetid world of reshuffling politicians was made a little less complex this week by alumnus to be proud of No 183. Sir Thomas Legg, whose report on the arming of Sierra Leone has led to no...