Big buck
Glasgow University's staff newsletter has been enthusing about the Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition, to which it is the largest single lender, which has been wowing them in New York after drawing...
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Cock-eyed
It is always reassuring when an advert can prove that the people selling a service have a first-hand knowledge of it. So hearty congratulations to Oxford Brookes University for the publicity for its...
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Ear to the ground
And the Universtiy of Oxford also deserves a pat on the back for omitting nothing in its painstaking construction of a How not to get Planning Permission case-study for its new business school. The...
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Cut and thrust
Alumnus to be proud of No 87 is that great patron of the shipbuilding industry Michael Portillo, whose recognition of the job and trade-creating possibilities of state expenditure came in the same...
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NUS takes a neutral stand
THERE WILL be no 1997 equivalent of the National Union of Students controversial Target 70 campaign, focused on marginal seats at 1992's general election. Accused then of partisanship by the...
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Troubled Trent builds bridge for aid
A TROUBLED further education college has reached out to other local institutions for help. Kevin Farrell, chairman of governors at Stoke-on-Trent College, has requested a meeting next month with...
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Tax dodge robs students of vote
STUDENTS may be robbing themselves of the chance to vote in a misguided attempt to avoid paying council tax. Although students are exempt from paying the tax, a conflict arises for those who share a...
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Citizenship is not just cricket, teachers warn
Michael Portillo believes that military discipline and good citizenship go hand in hand. But Carol Nahra finds that teacher trainers are not so sure No political party wants to be seen to be ignoring...
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Tate stokes toe treading fears
Nick Tate was ushered into perhaps the most powerful job in British education this week. With an ominous flutter of red tape, Dr Tate was offered the role as chief executive of the new all-...
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Teens show some team spirit
The Government's bid to encourage military training for all teenagers has drawn attention to the role of cadets in higher education. Every year the army tries, principally at freshers' events, to...
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Ulster teaches nurses to keep cool in a disaster
The sinking of the Estonia passenger ship, the Kobe earthquake, the Manchester bombing, refugees in the former Yugoslavia, flooding in Bangladesh: the list of recent natural and man-made disasters...
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Biomedical research relies on begging bowl
Charities are now funding more than twice as many biomedical research papers in the United Kingdom as the Government-funded Medical Research Council. Joe Anderson, head of the unit for policy...
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Gene junction takes off at airport
High-flying passengers can now to gen up on genetics while waiting for a flight. Julia Hinde reports on the brainchild of a Manchester University lecturer Nestled beside the Body Shop in Manchester...
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US to run bedside trials with pigs livers
SCIENTISTS IN the United States are to use "humanised" pig organs to offer critically ill patients a last chance of life. The transplantation of transgenic pig organs to humans - xenotransplantation...
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Size of Iron Age village surprises diggers
AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL team from Leicester University has discovered a cluster of some of the largest circular Iron Age buildings in Britain. The discovery at Enderby in Leicestershire sheds light on the...