Friendly fire
Marrack (known as MIG) Goulding will find himself in the best of company when he swaps the skyscrapers of New York for the spires of Oxford to take up his new post as warden of St Antony's College. A...
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Two-tone tonsure
The Blair hair row has meant the health of a public pate is no fringe issue. Terry Melia, outgoing chief inspector of the Further Education Funding Council, grasped the nettle when he helpfully...
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Bomb surprise
A bout of paranoia hit the Association of University Teachers this week as it prepared for Tuesday's momentous one-day strike. First, union chiefs suspected the Government's motives for changing the...
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Flipper slippers
Great excitement several leagues under the sea at the news that an Oxford PhD student has invented a singing synthesizer to reproduce the voice of any human or animal and adapt it to any style. "You...
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Feather-bedding
Oxford scientists will make many a parrot happy with their DNA test to find its sex from a feather. Determining the sex of one's parrot used to be a traumatic business for Polly, involving operations...
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Spaced out
Which brings us to the abortive mission this week to the land of little green men. Scientists with equipment on both Mars-96, which crashed into the Pacific on Monday, and the Ariane 5 rocket, which...
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Brussels sprout
It is a rare statesman who introduces a style of government so distinctive that a word has to be coined to do justice to it. Step forward alumni to be proud of No 78: President Mobutu Sese Seko of...
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Catholics win job bias awards
Northern Ireland's two universities have paid out more than Pounds 50,000 between them in job discrimination cases alleging religious bias. The cases were brought against Queen's and the University...
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Queen's-University
The student union at Queen's University has appointed a public relations consultant in a bid to improve its standing in the Protestant community. The decision, aimed at addressing repeated...
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Students 'pick brand names'
CITY MOVES by Alan Shearer and Harvey Nichols could prove absolutely fabulous news for university admissions officers in Newcastle and Leeds by boosting the profile of their localities. Reports by...
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The cost of learning
PART-TIME work and borrowing have made students better off but the most vulnerable continue to face serious financial disincentives to higher education, according to a new survey. While the average...
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Snow-go to all that jazz
UNIVERSITIES and colleges across Britain were closed on Tuesday as picket lines held firm, if not frozen. In London snow, sleet and driving rain threatened to turn the strike into a washout but it...
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Small invention, massive leap
NASA has awarded a contract to physicists at the University of Wales Aberystwyth to equip its deep space probes with the world's smallest yet most efficient mass spectrometer detector array. The...
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Birds of a feather in Nepal
THE EFFECT of managed grasslands on Nepal's birds is being examined by the universities of Cardiff and Amsterdam and bird conservationists in Kathmandu. One of the researchers, Hem Sagar Baral, is...
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Health check is spot on
MORE THAN 400 people living in the Northeast of England are about to be investigated by Newcastle University's "Red Spot" child health study. The unique study, being carried out by researchers in the...