Institutions risk bankruptcy
Some Scottish higher education institutions will be bankrupt by the end of the century unless funding cuts are reversed, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has warned. This follows...
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'Ants' turn on their masters
At least three quarters of the laboratory directors at two of France's main public research organisations have launched an unprecedented campaign of protest against budget cuts and lack of job...
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Asians swell university ranks
For more than five years Australia has encouraged universities to enroll more students from non-English-speaking homes. Institutions have devoted large sums to creating special programmes and the...
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MAFF hears what it wants to hear
By 1988, the ministry of agriculture, fisheries and food was aware of a serious crisis. Cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or "mad cow" disease were confirmed from diverse locations in Britain...
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Fillet of Whitehall
For years the Government has been ignoring expert advice. This week it has been hiding behind scientists. In the late 1980s, when BSE was first diagnosed in cattle, ministers acted too slowly and did...
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Counting the smart money
There is clearly a strong link between levels of resources available and levels of quality achieved in education, argues Clive Booth. What do the BSE scandal and higher education policy have in...
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Righteous paths
Dearing appears to be taking England down quite a different road from that being mapped out in Scotland, observe Michael Young and Ken Spours. The proposals of the Dearing review of qualifications...
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Death in the air
As the nation's fears focus on contaminated beef, one scientist believes he has identified another threat to public health - overhead power lines. Since Channel Four's Dispatches programme reported...
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Bird brain clue to memory riddle
A study of chicks' eating tastes has identified a molecule that affects their memory, which could provide a breakthrough in the quest to treat Alzheimer's disease. We are our memories. In old age we...
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Faith, hope and parity
Simon Lee tells Simon Targett why he gave up a law chair to run a higher education institute. It was like old times. As soon as the IRA returned to London, Simon Lee was back on the radio. After...
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Press clanger
Cambridge University Press's decision not to publish Anastasia Karakasidou's Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood sets an alarming precedent, argues Richard Clogg. That "Macedonia" is the word for a fruit...
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Catcher of the wry
American campus chronicler Alison Lurie talks to Tim Cornwell. The first tale in Alison Lurie's last book, a volume of short stories, Women and Ghosts, features a professor named Gregor Spiegelman....
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OU favours firm approach
Business school executives at the Open University are introducing company-style seminars in a move which could make the good old tutorial a thing of the past. This summer, the 1,250 first-stage...
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Cut to the quick
The search for cuts is reaching new heights at the Open University where noticeboards are carrying an advertisement for the post of guillotine operative.