Theorising far from the madding crowd
The Leverhulme chairs scheme is such a success that it is to be extended. Olga Wojtas reports. Frankly, an almost physical weight has lifted off my shoulders, in the sense that the almost intolerable...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE Research grants Professor B. Hogwood and Dr D. Judge, Pounds 161,365 from the Economic and Social Research Council (audit of accountability - agencies and their multiple...
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Sir Ron's timetable
1996 FEBRUARY Education secretary Gillian Shephard announces appointment of a National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, chaired by Sir Ron Dearing. It will recommend how the shape,...
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Drowning by numbers
Demand for higher degrees is set to mushroom. Stephen Pritchard assesses how the sector will cope. The world of the postgraduate will be unrecognisable in a decade's time. The market will have...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX The following heads of department were appointed for three years from August 1: Neil Baker, biological and chemical sciences; Mike O'Mahony, electronic systems engineering; John...
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The mental bloc about going east
The British seem reluctant to study in Eastern and Central Europe. Vittoria D'Alessio tries to unravel the mystery. If your lip curls in horror at the idea of languishing in bourgeois Paris or...
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Sum win, sum lose
Changes in studentships will penalise some postgraduates. But teaching assistantships are becoming more common, says John Davies. Postgraduates beginning their study this autumn face quite a few...
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Nappy clue to happy old age
Vittoria D'Alessio meets a medical doctor investigating the power of the womb. Avan Sayer is on a quest for the elixir of life. Her research will help us understand how one person can live like a...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Personal professorships: A. R. Hawkins, reader, professor of molecular genetics; R. Jordan, reader, professor of medical education; R. Kenny, clinical senior...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"The new elite (of universities) have structural enclaves with their research students and assistants as acolytes" (From a study of the Research Assessment Exercise conducted by Ian McNay.) Your...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a writer whose metropolitan novel has a rural sound: "In a way, too, you were a terrible little creature. If we were out together, on a blanket in the park -...
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Clearing the air
Fresh evidence for those who maintain that courses at Middlesex University are out of this world - their clearing advertising campaign will be carried on the SciFi channel of cable television.
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Hearing trials
Detecting hearing problems in newborn babies may reduce the number of children with delayed language development, according to scientists at Southampton University. Researchers have drawn this...
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Ten too many
The Institute for Contemporary British History's conference, "A Century of the Popular Press", is described in its advertising leaflet as covering the period 1886-1996. Perhaps the historians, in...
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Getting the green light
(Photograph) - Getting the green light: Edinburgh Instruments, a spin-off company from Heriot-Watt University, beams a green light laser system to mark the launch of the Scottish Enterprise and Royal...