Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF KEELE Gary Kelly, professor of English, University of Alberta, and Edward Larrissy, senior lecturer in English at Keele, have received professorships. HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY Philip...
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Fellowships
University of Bradford John Gardiner, head of the department of electrical and electronic engineering. University of Glamorgan Simon Weston, Falklands veteran, holder of Man of the Decade 1989; Hywel...
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Awards
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS T. Brooke Benjamin, Sedleian professor of natural philosophy, University of Oxford, has been named honorary member of ASME. He will receive the award at the...
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When the status quo is not an option
Where else would I get the opportunity to go to university at 37 and use that experience to change my career direction completely?" Bruce Nicol would say that, wouldn't he -- he is management...
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Blue chip partnership
The University of Nottingham makes millions of pounds from industry Colin Campbell explains. Recently it was announced that the University of Nottingham, with an annual income of Pounds 6.3 million,...
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Myriad of `other sources' fill funding breach
Since the early 1980s, when vice chancellors turned increasingly to a myriad of so-called "other sources" of income after the first Thatcher government sanctioned a 17 per cent squeeze on central...
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Under-exploited assets
As we head for the "knowledge society" of the 21st century, British universities seem only half awake, argues Sir Geoffrey Holland. The National Advisory Council on Education and Training Targets is...
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Cheque-book education
Ngaio Crequer traces the snap, crackle and pop of universities' attachment to Mammon. Universities that receive money from breakfast cereal foundations may raise eyebrows, but there is a long...
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Labour banks on credit rating
The commission states: "The challenge for the 21st century is to extend high standards to far more people." Changes in funding: "The present structure and funding of universities simply cannot cope...
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Lay panel to witnesses academic witnesses
The latest initiative in the furthering of public understanding of science is the first British consensus conference, in which lay people give a verdict on a controversial public issue. It begins...
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Market threatens variety in care policy
The Government's reorganisation of community care is threatening the survival of small care organisations and is based on an oversimplistic view of the public and private sectors, according to...
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London flood risk rises
London's resistance to flooding is deteriorating because of ever increasing development on its flood plains, according to research being carried out at Middlesex University. In a lecture last week,...
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Sensor sniffs out heroin
Scientists at Cambridge University have developed a biological sensor for detecting heroin which can identify individual particles of the drug measuring just thousandths of a millimetre. The work at...
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Bugs get the chop on wood
Chopping boards could hold the key to a better understanding of food poisoning, says a microbiologist at Leeds Metropolitan University. Government figures released last week show that food poisoning...
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Kalashnikov culture
Bilal Noor was more than an hour late for work this morning. Senior lecturer in law at Srinagar University of Kashmir, he faces a series of arbitrary and humiliating searches by the paramilitary...