The missed of time
Dundee University's department of modern history this week launched the new Tayside and Fife Historical Research Institute. Chris Whatley, head of Dundee's department of modern history, explained...
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Put out to copy
Are there no limits to the compassion of the Natural Death Centre? Launched in 1991, it helps those who look after someone dying at home. And it organises "cheap, green and DIY funerals". Its concern...
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Pincer moves
Is Glasgow University attempting a flanking manoeuvre on Government funding? New principal Graeme Davies presumably knows, as former chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Right plight
Anyone for a cull of right-wing thinkers? Himself no socialist, Gray suggested at the conference that there is now an unfeasible surplus of believers in unfettered free market forces, while believers...
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That fellow
A meeting of minds at Saturday's posthumanism conference run by ECO, the political ecology campaigning group. Introducing speaker John Gray, chairman Alec Ponton said: "He sent me a note saying that...
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Teaching agency to set standards
National standards for teacher training and continuing professional development will be set by the Teacher Training Agency, it was announced this week. A programme for improving the quality of...
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Call for school maths inspectors
University mathematicians this week urged the Government to set up a mathematics inspectorate for schools to halt a serious decline in students' ability in the subject. Their call is a key...
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Labour lashes research policy
The Labour Party has warned that quality research is suffering under short-term policies. Speaking in a recent Parliamentary debate on science and technology, John Battle, then shadow science...
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Lecturers' merger move afoot
The Association of University Teachers put forward proposals for a joint membership scheme with lecturers' union Natfhe this week in what is seen as the first step towards a single union for higher...
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Mary Robinson, president of Ireland
(Photograph) - Irish precedent: Mary Robinson, president of Ireland, gave a lecture at the London School of Economics. on her recent visit to Britain where she met the Queen. She spoke on "Academic...
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Financiers meet their match
Universities wishing to meet private financiers to share mutual interests will be able to register with a higher education "dating agency" by next January. The funding councils, keen to push the...
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Mergers will cut colleges by third
Accountants reckon that one third of colleges could be lost over the next three years as mergers gather pace because of greater competition for students and the financial straits some colleges find...
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New cancer chief
The Cancer Research Campaign is soon to have a new director-general, Gordon McVie. Professor McVie, 50, will be the first scientist in the post. He is now scientific director at the charity, which...
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Medics merger
The private bill to merge Queen Mary and Westfield College, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, and the Royal London Hospital College was this week passed by the House of Lords and is expected...
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Labour sparks FE row
A Labour Government would devolve further education funding and policy decisions to new regional councils, it emerged this week. Much of the power currently vested in the Further Education Funding...