Media studies 'no soft option'
MORE than two-thirds of A-level and BTEC media studies students surveyed by the British Film Institute said that they chose the subject because it was relevant to life. Over 80 per cent rejected...
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Police may foster hooliganism
An expert on English football hooliganism has called for a big change in how football fans are treated at the World Cup, which starts next week in France. Research by Clifford Stott, lecturer in...
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Club cards for loyal fans
Football fans could end up with loyalty cards like those issued to supermarket customers if an idea suggested by researchers at Middlesex University is taken up. Paul Baines of the university's...
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Exercised by gender
Girls as young as nine see exercising as a way of keeping fit and controlling weight, while boys of the same age are more likely to associate exercise with fun. Joint research by academics at Luton,...
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Laboratories opened
New research laboratories that cost Pounds 250,000 to build and kit out have been opened at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. The laboratories will carry out research...
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SA quotas to favour black medics
Medical schools at South African universities have been told that from next year their state funding will reflect the racial mix of their first-year student intake. Speaking on behalf of health...
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Chairs
Gresham College Gerald Wakefield, leading expert in international telecoms law and regulation and electronic technology law, professor of law; Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball professor of mathematics,...
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Grants
University of Birmingham European funds Dr G. Boons, Pounds 71,269 from the Commission (synthetic saccharides to study the immunological properties of type III group B streptoccus oligosaccharides);...
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Students hold officials hostage in fees row
NIGER students in Benin have taken their embassy officials and diplomats hostage as a means of pressurising the government to disburse scholarships and bursaries. Aggrieved students enrolled at the...
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A new forum for Europe
Academics are one of the groups in society that is most integrated into Europe. Student and faculty exchange programmes such as Socrates or Tempus, collaborative research programmes, training and...
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When will we see the Gazza chair?
The 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush is a convenient, if confected, peg on which to hang a review of Britain's progress in accommodating black and Asian immigrants. Immigrants have...
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The bumpy road to quality
Consultations on the Quality Assurance Agency's proposals for quality assurance in British higher education officially ended on May 22 amid signs that anger is rising in the academic community. This...
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Active role for a vigorous player
As vice-chancellors meet today, their leader, Martin Harris, sets out his aims and hopes for universities. Two convictions have underpinned the first of my two years as chair of the Committee of Vice...
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Swiss risk losing role
This weekend the Swiss vote on whether to tighten their already strict laws on genetic research. Jakob Nuesch argues that a 'yes' vote would imperil the country's research base. Some months ago a...
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Rough ride
I read the letter detailing what exactly "voluntary" redundancies at the University of East London were as I was sitting on a bus admiring a poster urging students to register for the bright, go-...