Queen's castle dogged by debt
A Canadian university is divided over the potential sale of an unusual asset - a 15th-century castle in the south of England. Few universities in Canada own property that is older than the country...
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Troubled tax for graduates
We are sorry to hear that Ghassan Karian, former national coordinator of New Solutions, now supports "... a graduate tax for maintenance and tuition fees". We do not believe that this is the way...
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Lecturers' union leader sacked in dispute
EIGHT Nigerian university lecturers who were active in the six-month strike that ended in September have been sacked and evicted from their tied accommodation. The lecturers, including Assisi Asobie...
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Vice squad
The football squad at Clemson University, Alabama returned to action last weekend after an off-season in which eight players were arrested, two were expelled from the squad after being caught in...
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Evasion of the body snatchers
The captain of a small fishing boat got quite a scare when a box he had been hired to dump at sea turned out to contain a skull, syringes and other medical waste mixed with human ashes. When the box...
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Leeds leads
An Edwardian listed building has been transformed into a Pounds 4.5 million high-tech library for Leeds Metropolitan University students. The Beckett Park Learning Centre housed within the campus's...
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Misleading search for twelve first-division players
John Brooks argues that all universities must decide how best to balance the teaching research divide The great strength of the higher education system is its ability to evolve to meet both national...
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Engineering council streamlines to save Pounds 1 million
THE Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is rationalising its support for engineering and could save around Pounds 1 million. The council has nine engineering research programme areas....
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Errors in paradise
Derek Freeman is interesting and convincing in reiterating his well-known demolition of Margaret Mead's "evidence" for sexual permissiveness in Samoa (THES, December ). But he is surely as...
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So much, by so many, for so little
THE CALLS in the national press to concentrate research funding in a small number of institutions must be resisted if the quality of degrees for the majority of undergraduates is to be maintained. In...
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Internet
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
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Sir Colin sticks up for the layperson
"I can't see a bigger issue than genetic science and its ethical implications now that the cold war is over." So says Nottingham University vice chancellor Sir Colin Campbell, who this month takes on...
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Roof justice
Roof justice: police escorted these huge sheets of roofing on their journey from Merseyside to the University of Hertfordshire last week. The sheets will shield a Pounds 16 million Learning Resource...
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Fresh funders
Six new appointments have been made to the Further Education Funding Council for England. They are Mary Curnock Cook, director of the British Institute of Innkeeping; Peter Elliott, chairman of...
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The F words
The often impenetrable world of educational psychology is not without its lighter moments as shown by a recent report from the Campaign for Learning (page 7). Amid talk of neuro-linguistic...