Geographers in revolt over Shell
The Royal Geographical Society could face a spate of academic resignations following a special general meeting on Monday to vote on sponsorship by Shell. There have been strains within the society...
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Architects told to think green
ENGINEERS and architects should consult the public much more about their work, according to a report out next week. Peter Carolin of Cambridge University and Peter Guthrie of structural civil...
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Disabled rights to work set universities thinking
HIGHER education institutions can no longer legally discriminate against employees from next week, but they can still discriminate against students. The employment provisions of the Disability...
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UK tops import charts
The United Kingdom has the fastest growth rate in the import of technology over the past 20 years out of ten countries surveyed by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development. In 1996...
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Nexus seeks Lib-Dem partners
Nexus, the centre-left public policy network, is hoping to build contacts with the Liberal Democratic party. Identified with the Labour party and its Blairite wing since its launch earlier this year...
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Highland battle rages
An Inverness economic consultant has come under fire for dismissing the University of the Highlands and Islands project as "third rate". Tony Mackay wrote in the latest Mackay Consultants' monthly...
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Rainbow's quest for master brew
FEW scientists have achieved so much in the irrepressible quest for the ultimate pint of beer than the late, great brewer Cyril Rainbow. Today, Rainbow's quest - along with his very name - lives on...
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Gucci-clad and grandiose
THE CURRENT batch of prospective business leaders networking the grandiose Georgian campus of the European Business School in the heart of London's Regent's Park have an air of collective confidence...
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A dedicated arbiter of credit
Harold Silver of the Open University explains how its validation service works. Little understood and little reported, an alternative and largely private higher education sector is mushrooming. One...
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Waiting for Sir Ron and... the second coming of Christ
IN DEEPEST Berkshire, a small college of Seventh Day Adventists is preparing for the second coming of Christ. Newbold College, set in 80 acres near the village of Binfield and catering for some 350...
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Partners in a burgeoning club
NEARLY 200,000 students, over half of them undergraduates, benefit from partnership arrangements between universities and other institutions. Many of these students are in further education, but a...
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Campus asbestos row goes to court
A fierce row over asbestos risk assessment and academic responsibility has broken out between Paris's Jussieu University campus anti-asbestos committee and members of the Academy of Medicine and the...
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Rectors postpone revolution
UNIVERSITY rectors and government officials have unexpectedly failed to agree on a blueprint for changes in Spain's complex university entrance system. A meeting of the university council in...
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Football party kicks into gear
Footballing philosophy is breathing new life into the ailing world of student politics in Germany, where Marx and Lenin once topped the league. The St Pauli Party is standing in student elections at...
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Checkpoint Venice for tourists
A TOURIST checkpoint for entry to Venice is among suggestions from the city's Ca' Foscari University for use during the 2000 Jubilee and Holy Year celebrations. Left-wing mayor Massimo Cacciari, who...