Crocodile tears
Vice-chancellors found themselves badly in need of leadership as they attempted to make their way across the Warwick University campus from reception room to lecture theatre on the first day of the...
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Slumber party
Delegates thought they were in for a spicy speech when their afterdinner speaker, National Health Service chief executive Alan Langlands, began by rattling off a list of vice-chancellors who had...
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Constable's wane
Alumnus to be proud of No 170 spent this week displaying qualities of adhesiveness previously only associated with Yorkshire cricketers at their most stubborn. Ian Oliver, chief constable of Grampian...
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Research assessment set for 2001
THE funding councils have confirmed that the next research assessment exercise will be in 2001. But dates have to be formally settled between the different councils in England, Scotland and Wales....
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Quality chief takes Soton Institute helm
A FORMER quality chief whose organisation put the first dent in Southampton Institute's reputation has now the task of repairing the damage. Roger Brown is cheerfully facing the challenge of becoming...
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Teaching bonus in dispute
VICE-CHANCELLORS have criticised English funding council plans to reward excellence in teaching, arguing that money is also needed to help departments improve their teaching. Heated discussions at...
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Jackpot time as universities collect their lottery windfalls
The National Lottery has made awards worth Pounds 76 million to higher education projects. The THES lists winners to date, examines how grants have been won and looks at the overseas experience...
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Dollars for scholars
The National Lottery has made awards worth Pounds 76 million to higher education projects. The THES lists winners to date, examines how grants have been won and looks at the overseas experience Vice...
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Struggle to match grant
The National Lottery has made awards worth Pounds 76 million to higher education projects. The THES lists winners to date, examines how grants have been won and looks at the overseas experience The...
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Fever for fat one
The National Lottery has made awards worth Pounds 76 million to higher education projects. The THES lists winners to date, examines how grants have been won and looks at the overseas experience Spain...
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Local support clinches bid
The National Lottery has made awards worth Pounds 76 million to higher education projects. The THES lists winners to date, examines how grants have been won and looks at the overseas experience An...
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Libraries strike purchase deal with electronic publishers
A NATIONAL agreement between universities and publishers for the purchase of electronic journals comes into force next January. Covering 150 libraries, the deal was devised by the funding councils'...
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Antibiotics short on experts
DOCTORS need to be better educated in the use of antibiotics, says a House of Lords inquiry into antibiotic resistance. The Lords' select committee on science and technology warned this week that...
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Royal College probes nursing losses
Up to one in three nursing students may be quitting their course before qualification, according to the Royal College of Nursing, writes Julia Hinde. At their annual congress in Bournemouth this week...
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Psychologist attracted to spirit world
ALAN GAULD has investigated well over 100 hauntings and found rational explanations for all but a handful. Rational explanations are, after all, his stock in trade. If only his fellow scientists...