On the money
Vice chancellors not amused at earning less than professors in their medical schools can reflect that it could be worse. Sports Illustrated reports that one Mark Yudof was appointed as president of...
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Football bad
The university soccer clubs in Edinburgh look as though they could do with Minnesota-style high-priced coaching. As of last weekend the bottom club in the Premier Division of the extremely tough Pro...
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Fax alert
While we do not know about the staff, there appears to be a crisis of morale among the office equipment at the CVCP. Staff were shocked last week when two police officers burst in and dashed up the...
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Poll apart
So when will the general election be? If history repeats itself, put your money on April 10. That is the week when the Political Studies Association holds its annual meeting at the University of...
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Major retrospective
If you prefer historians to political scientists as seers, May 1 looks likelier. It certainly looks as though the Institute of Historical Research seminar on 20th-century British history may be...
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Mother superior
The dons of Balliol College, Oxford will be quaking in their books as the figure of alumnas to be proud of No 86, Nicola Horlick, fills the front pages of every national newpaper. First, on Pounds 1...
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Glasgow wins world crown
GLASGOW University's student debating team of Derek Sloan and Andy Hume has won the World University Debating Championships at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Mr Sloan, a fourth-year...
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Patients reject student rounds
THE GREATER number of medical students in teaching hospitals is putting pressure on patients who in turn are withdrawing goodwill, it has been claimed. Derek McLaughlan, chairman of the British...
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Medics fear PhD neglect
SENIOR medics have called for a re-evaluation of postgraduate medical training amid fears that recent reforms could bleed the lifeblood from academic medicine. The draft report of the University of...
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Strathclyde denies steel site claim
STRATHCLYDE University has denied an MP's claim that it is bidding to build on the site of the former Ravenscraig steelworks now that St Andrews University has abandoned its plans for a university...
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Americans show staying power in battle for status
Huw Richards talks to two men in the London hot seats of learning about Australia and the US IT WAS not so much Independence Day as Permanence Day. Last month staff at London University's Institute...
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Debts dog fame school
The Liverpool fame school founded by Paul McCartney remains in limbo, despite its patron's recent knighthood. Debts of more than Pounds 7.5 million last year put the Liverpool Institute of Performing...
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Musicians' college is out of tune
THE Royal College of Music, the only conservatoire with the power to award its own degrees, has been urged to revamp its "over-complex" quality monitoring system. Its "centralist approach" to quality...
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High hopes for anti-fat molecule
A chemical that could be used to tackle obesity is being investigated by scientists at Strathclyde University. The chemical, which causes weight loss in experimental subjects, was found in a plant...
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Wrist work helps you get a grip
People whose dexterity has been affected by nerve damage to the wrists could regain mobility thanks to Leicester University's medical faculty. Special hand exercises which could help restore skilled...