Davies fights for Commons life
Huw Richards reports from the Labour party conference in Blackpool. Nobody would ever call Bryan Davies a lucky politician. For the second time in his career he faces losing his place in the House of...
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Smooth oil for troubled waters
Aberdeen University could help prevent a rerun of the Brent Spar controversy, in which Shell and Greenpeace clashed over the strategy for decommissioning the floating oil installation, with a new...
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Personnel chief wins Pounds 40,000 sex case
A former head of personnel has won a Pounds 40,000 settlement from a church-funded higher education college amid claims of unfair dismissal and sex discrimination. Evelyn Henson negotiated the...
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Worth his salt
Aisling Irwin (THES, September ) dates "the birth of animal rights" with the publication of Paul Singer's Animal Liberation in 1975 and the notion of "rights" as derived from the United States. Henry...
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Private rules for public institutions
Dire is the only word to describe the picture painted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England's analysis of the financial forecasts of English and northern Irish universities. The figures...
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Deal struck on staff contracts
The Robert Gordon University and the Educational Institute of Scotland have reached an 11th hour agreement on academic contracts, avoiding a further legal battle. The union won a Court of Session...
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Highlands aims even higher
The University of the Highlands and Islands project is to seek Pounds 10 million from the European Union following its success this week in winning Pounds 33 million from the Millennium Commission...
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From piety to a cosmic order
It would be a mistake to dismiss Roger Scruton's recent arguments on animals and their lack of rights as narrow and partisan, argues David Wiggins. Indeed they come in a framework that offers the...
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Cutting off research's oxygen supply
Of the various proposals that are being floated before the Dearing committee the one to concentrate research funds on a small number of "elite" or premier league universities is the most wrong-headed...
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Universities 'must learn to network'
Universities must learn from multinational companies and create new types of networks both inside and outside the academic world, according to Hans van Ginkel, vice president of the Conference of...
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Emotions trapped
The Wellcome Trust has split Pounds 800,000 for research into neurological disorders between five institutions, including the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford,...
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Students reimbursed as Cork breaks link
A private college in Cork, which was in discussions with the University of Exeter over degree validation, has returned the deposits of 50 applicants for places on diploma and degree courses. The...
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Net opens way to global admissions system
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service could soon match students and higher education institutions as far away as Malaysia and Taiwan, according to chief executive Tony Higgins. Greater use...
