Don's Diary
Saturday Wake up call at 5.30 am. Stagger out of bed, and do a final check of my suitcase, making sure I have not forgotten my lecture notes. I am to be a visiting professor at St Andrews Biblical...
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Why a pint is just a tonic
WITH Christmas and New Year upon us, a British analytical chemist believes there is every reason for those who enjoy the occasional for those who enjoy the occasional pint to take heart. According to...
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Up for the Cup
(Photograph) - Leeds University Rugby League club on the attack in their Challenge Cup tie against Hemel Hempstead last Saturday. The students' 26-12 win is a first step towards next May's Wembley...
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Super league derided
Calls from four leading research universities for a superleague of selectively funded institutions have met with cynicism from the funding council and the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals...
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Cash claims signal halt to FE growth
A RISE in claims for growth money from further education colleges this year is threatening to halt the increase in student numbers and plunge the sector deeper into financial difficulty. The...
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Transfer market block
Funding councils are to take action to prevent a repetition of the academic transfer market which developed last year as institutions built up departments for the research assessment exercise....
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Scotland moots idea of pay deal breakaway
SCOTLAND'S eight traditional universities may break away from United Kingdom pay negotiations if the current dispute continues. Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde universities have already...
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Debt demo
(Photograph) - Students from Stoke-on-Trent College in Staffordshire protested in London last week about their college's Pounds 8 million debt, which built up through missing recruitment targets. A...
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Collider on cash course
HUNDREDS of millions of pounds of backing from countries including the United States and Japan look set to pour into Europe's particle-smashing project at Cern in Geneva. Funds had been under threat...
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Employers drop service condition
A CONCESSION by university employers has created a glimmer of hope for a New Year settlement to the pay dispute. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association met representatives of the eight...
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Standards are rising
Top research universities argue that only they should be funded to produce top-quality research. Here chairs of assessment panels in the Research Assessment Exercise claim that standards are rising...
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Bath discovers cult of success
THES reporters look at how departments prepared for and responded to last week's research assessments. STUDY OF RELIGIONS: BATH COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION 1992 rating: 2 1996 rating: 4 "TO refuse...
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Genetics mutates and grows
THES reporters look at how departments prepared for and responded to last week's research assessments. GENETICS: CAMBRIDGE 1992 rating: 5 1996 rating: 5* Since the 1992 research assessment exercise...
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Reading pays
THE BRITISH Library is to conduct market research into the possibility of charging for the use of reading rooms. The library faces a Pounds 3.33 million shortfall in income in 1996-97 and a further...
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Painful discovery
New discoveries by scientists at King's College London about the nature of pain may lead to improved methods for treatment. Researchers have discovered how heat causes pain by sending an electric...