Courses for horses
(Photograph) - Courses for horses: students Claire Johnston, Danielle Preedy and Andrea Bristol on Bristol University's equine science BSc degree course. The course is held mainly at the Equine...
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Methanol fuel tailored for cars
SCIENTISTS at Essex University have developed a new catalyst for cars which could mean more efficient and cleaner transport. Researchers in the department of biological and chemical sciences have...
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Deficits and staff problems delay Ulster merger
College incorporation may be delayed in Northern Ireland. The five area boards - under threat of amalgamation - have privately warned the province's Department of Education that it cannot be...
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Soton bid to rescue Athens campus
Southampton Institute is gearing up for a costly recruitment drive in a last-ditch attempt to save its loss-making Athens campus. Only a fivefold increase in student numbers will ensure that its...
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Exeter down but not out
Exeter University, which on some calculations saw a decline in its overall performance in the RAE, took a disappointed rather than downhearted view. John Inkson, deputy vice chancellor, said that...
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Hebron university reopens cautiously
Hebron's Palestinian university has been allowed to open for the first time in almost a year. As Israel's coalition government continued its cautious moves towards a partial withdrawal from the city...
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Ring-pull
(Photograph) - Ring-pull: Claire Archibald, a first-year fashion student at Glasgow Caledonian University, models her design of ring-pull headgear to publicise the university's new waste management...
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E.coli plea
A scientific report into Scotland's E.coli outbreak which has claimed 16 lives has called for more research into occurrences of the bacteria in Scottish cattle and to help forecast likely outbreaks....
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Student defaulters
I read the article by Iain Crawford and Nicholas Barr with interest, in places not unmixed with agreement - until I reached the phrase "The Student Loan Company projects up to 490,000 defaulters by...
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Pay on Labor'selection agenda
AUSTRALIA. This was the year that universities in Australia grappled with enterprise bargaining. Urged on by federal government, academics and administrators on every campus spent months negotiating...
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To choose to go local
In a trailer for a forthcoming special issue of Demos, Geoff Mulgan ("Home View", THES, November 1) signals the choice before universities to go global or local. He suggests that the challenge is not...
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Notre Dame takes over osteopathy school site
THE UNITED STATES University of Notre Dame is expanding its research and teaching in London with a takeover of the British School of Osteopathy's Trafalgar Square premises. Notre Dame will not reveal...
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Rise of the managerial cadre
Robert Welch argues that devolving administrative tasks to academics may be efficient but is damaging to the original purpose of universities. On the upper storey of the cloister of the Collegium...
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Not getting anywhere
Roger Scruton's addendum to his article on animal rights (THES, August 30) does nothing to further his case, first because it is based on unargued assumptions and second because it misses the central...
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In hot pursuit of cold stars
The mysterious, middle stages of star formation, which are shrouded from the astronomer because they happen inside a huge dust cloud, will be revealed by the European Space Agency's Infrared Space...