Watertight excuses
Stirling University is anticipating a new addition to the list of genuine reasons for student assignments being late: "marooned on St Kilda". Its Western Isles campus in Stornoway has just enrolled...
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Half steps to truce
Having assailed The THES for "unhelpful reporting" of the Quality Assurance Agency's latest scheme for checking standards, members of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' standards and...
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Chile's collegiate team
Any academic who does not fancy Scotland or England in the World Cup but wants a team to follow could do worse than Chile. Not only are they good enough to beat England at Wembley and still available...
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Don't shut out police, report says
Police must be called to investigate allegations of serious sexual assault at universities and colleges, according to a report released to colleges this week by Secretary of State David Blunkett. The...
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Hearing for silent press officer
The head of press relations at Middlesex University, Suzi Clark, faced a disciplinary hearing this week over her relationship with the press, writes Phil Baty. Ms Clark, who also edits the university...
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Evans vows action after being passed over again
Campaigning Cambridge University lecturer Gill Evans has said she will return to the High Court after failing to win a chair in this year's round of promotions after 18 years at the university. She...
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Sunderland pioneers environmental audit
New universities are pioneering the use of environmental policies. Julia Hinde reports Sunderland University was the first university to produce an annual green report, highlighting its environmental...
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FRSs named
Two computer scientists spotted among the new Fellows of the Royal Society: connectionist Geoff Hinton (University of Toronto) and veteran research manager John Taylor (Hewlett Packard Laboratories,...
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HEFCE may probe Anglia allegations
Allegations of nepotism, bullying and mismanagement at Anglia Polytechnic University business school are expected to be investigated by auditors from the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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IT 'could rescue Cambridge life'
Cambridge could lose the status it gains from having Europe's greatest concentration of high technology firms unless it makes more use of information technology, says a study out this week. The...
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UK lags in Pounds 44bn market
LACK of government investment and support for medical engineering research and development is undermining the United Kingdom in a Pounds 44 billion global market, the Royal Academy of Engineering...
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Hard furnishings
(Photograph) - Hard furnishings: Royal College of Art student Taslim Martin has found an unusual use for ceramic...seating. Exhibiting his work at the Royal College of Art final-year degree show, Mr...
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Colleges push common framework
UNIVERSITIES and colleges should share common quality assurance arrangements, the Association of Colleges has said. The AoC, in its response to the Quality Assurance Agency's consultation, said that...
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Exam snorers score badly
STUDENTS who snore do significantly worse in exams and are at a higher risk of failing than non-snorers, a survey suggests. University of Erlangen-Nuremburg researchers in Germany looked at the...
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'Kennedy' cash for extra students
MONEY for an extra 20,000 full-time students was announced this week in the latest further education funding round, in which almost 60 per cent of colleges received higher allocations. Detailing how...