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Alumni to be proud of nos 32 and 33 are a couple of Scottish politicians. First is Ian Lang, president of the Board of Trade, who had eight days to browse through the Scott report and managed only to...
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Does the Rt Hon Lady. . .
. . . recognise that universities . . . are independent of the Government, and that they have a right . . . to take appropriate steps to secure the resources they need to underpin the quality of...
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Oh s-t!
Scientists who criticise Hollywood's depiction of epidemics should realise that "witchcraft science" will always dominate the movies, says Christopher Foreman, a political scientist at the Brookings...
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Clock watcher
(Photograph) - Clock watcher: Maxim Kotchoubeyev, a senior official from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, learns the latest about restoration of clocks, fine ceramics and metalwork at West Dean...
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Clarke degree courts controversy
The dispute about Nottingham Trent's proposal to award Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke an honorary degree has prompted the university to take the "unprecedented step" of breaking the...
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Ousted president in union defeat
Mags Whelan, the ousted student president who is threatening legal action against Oxford Brookes University student union, has sparked further upset after losing the latest leadership election....
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Tomorrow's tonic or today's bitter pill?
Simon Targett discovers how, despite a recent dip in the share price of a major biotech firm, Britain's academic spin-off companies are still on to a good thing. Just three weeks ago the share price...
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Queen's elects child of the non-famous
The son and daughter of two high-profile Ulster politicians have lost their first election - for president of the student union at Queen's University. Deirdre McAliskey, daughter of renowned...
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Palms of peace
(Photograph) - Palms of peace: Thousands of students, their hands painted white to symbolise their condemnation of violence, gathered outside the Autonomous University of Madrid last week on the day...
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A bitter cuppa for lecturers
As controller of lecturers' teaching performance, Stephen Bretschneider, head of administration at Hamburg's smallest university, had few friends. So when his dead body was discovered by a hapless...
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Exploits of an oil-slick spotter
An oil-slick tracker invented by a Southampton University scientist had its baptism by fire this week when it was called into action in the clean-up operation involving stricken tanker Sea Empress...
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Paris campus in asbestos risk
Asbestos contamination at the Paris university campus of Jussieu requires Pounds 100 million to fix and despite official recognition of the urgency, the French government is dragging its feet....
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Diggers accused of grave robbery
Attempts by Israel's religious political parties to increase their influence over archaeological digs have been checked following pressure from Shimon Peres's leftwing coalition partners. Moves had...
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Mergers, marriages and unions
Effective representation of higher education staff is indeed essential in these challenging times (THES leader, February 16). The central issue in building greater unity is what structures among...
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Mergers, marriages and unions
In August of this year, University College Salford, whose staff are represented by Natfhe, will merge with the University of Salford, whose academic staff are members of AUT. Although there have been...