On the buses
(Photograph) - Doncaster College advertising students Nathalie Jennings and Holly St Leger saw the posters they designed go up on the sides of buses last week as part of a public awareness campaign...
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Research contest off till 2001
THE research assessment exercise may be delayed by a year to 2001. Submissions to the funding councils' consultation on the exercise - the method by which the councils assess and selectively fund...
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Guild of Picture Editors Awards
(Photograph) - Testing times: this picture by Pauline Neild won the black-and-white regional prize in the recent Guild of Picture Editors Awards. It shows artist Martell Lindsell holding works she...
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Staffordshire bull gets Real
Staffordshire University's Real Gallery in New York is inappropriately named. Its current exhibition, "The last paintings of Gary Richer", is anything but real. Gary Richer is an invention of fine...
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Anglia hate mail under police scrutiny
Police are investigating a hate-mail campaign against six staff at Anglia Polytechnic University who have supported complaints of nepotism against business school head Hugh Jenkins. A spokeswoman for...
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Glasgow considers position of stalker
Glasgow Caledonian University will review the position of a business administration professor found guilty of stalking his former secretary. Gordon Anderson was fined Pounds 500 at Glasgow Sheriff...
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Not all purchases are strictly by the book
Students check for academic waffle before buying a book, says a survey of student attitudes by the Marketing Group of the Council of Academic and Professional Publishers. The report found that...
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Cut-price text scheme returns
The government is trying to resuscitate the Educational Low-Priced Book Scheme, which makes cheap British textbooks available to students in developing countries. Funding was axed by the previous...
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Industry wants more applied research aid
Philip Ruffles, director of engineering and technology at Rolls-Royce plc, this week called on the government to increase its support for applied research in British universities to help boost...
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Arts body denounces 'assault on freedom'
Attempts to pulp a book under the Obscene Publications Act have been attacked as "an astonishing assault on academic freedom" by the Council of University Deans of Arts and Humanities in letters to...
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Ofsted names adjudicator to hear complaints
The Office for Standards in Education has appointed an independent adjudicator to consider complaints about inspections. The move, which Education Secretary David Blunkett praised as a commitment to...
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Engineering a point
The Engineering Council's plans to use the A-level points score system to raise entry requirements for engineering courses have been criticised by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service....
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Just the ticket
Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts has selected Venuemaster from Synchro Systems Ltd as the new computerised arts marketing system for its BA performing arts degree. The system will be used...
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Cybercops learn how to hack systems
Students at one small American university are studying the art of computer hacking and other electronic crimes. Not how to commit them. How to prevent them. The graduate programme in justice...
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Newbattle wins financial support
Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's sole adult residential college, has won Scottish Office funding of Pounds 250,000 to support 50 residential places for diploma students for each of the next three...