Science women aim for the top
EIGHTEEN young female scientists at Edinburgh University met their mentors for the first time last week as part of a new initiative to encourage more women to reach senior academic posts in science,...
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NPC wants more access but opposes top-up fees
THE NATIONAL Postgraduate Committee's submission to the Dearing Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education focuses on seven main points. * The NPC supports broadening of access, subject to quality of...
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Writer's block on enquiry
The research assessment exercise has replaced the art of learning with that of publishing agrues Svava Bjarnason It would be interesting to find out how many research students are aware of the Higher...
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Lectures
University of Exeter "Life is a Liquid Crystal!" Duncan Bruce, professor of inorganic chemistry will deliver his inaugural lecture on Monday March 17 at 1.10pm in the Newman LTC, Peter Chalk Centre.
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Short-termism damages research, says AUT
The AUT wants an end to fixed-term contracts Fixed-term contracts are the norm for young academics starting their careers but the short-termism they breed is damaging both staff and institutions,...
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Chairs
University of Stirling John Crump, formerly at the University of York, has been appointed to the WYWY chair of Japanese Studies. University of Edinburgh Ian Metcalfe, formerly at Imperial College and...
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Midland Bank
The Midland Bank and the '94 Group hope that the first grants will be available for postgraduates in the next academic year. Many other banks offer graduate and professional studies loans for...
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Non-formula funding
Total non-formula funding for 1997/98 is Pounds 306 million, including Pounds 16 million which would previously have been allocated under DevR. This money will cover the same kinds of institutions...
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Maximum aggregate student numbers
This is the maximum number of home or EU award-holding students each institution is contracted to recruit. Overall student numbers supported by the teaching grant next year will be roughly the same...
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Trade unionists branded as campus security risk
LECTURERS who led the banned Academic Staff of Universities have been labelled "security risks" on the two campuses of the University of Nigeria at Nsukka. The authorities have used the term to...
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Rwandan scholars 'conspired'
THE RWANDAN massacres of 1994 were far from simple explosions of tribal hatred. The intellectual basis for mass murder was laid by university scholars trained in the United States and Britain, it is...
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Sector's shower of gifts
Canada's shell-shocked higher education sector has gratefully accepted a host of gifts from a government expected to call an election soon. Liberal finance minister Paul Martin has unveiled the...
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Melbourne plans full fees
The University of Melbourne has become the first Australian university to unveil plans to charge some home undergraduates full-cost fees of up to Aus$22,000 (Pounds 11,000) a year. If plans by Alan...
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Prizewinning abuser jailed
Nobel prize winner Daniel Carleton Gadjusek will spend a year behind bars after pleading guilty to two counts of sex abuse on a boy he adopted from Micronesia, in the Pacific Ocean. Professor...
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Second sex centre set to be first to go
Academics at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montreal are feeling very much like the "second sex" now that their feminist research centre has been targeted for closure. Concordia University in...