Exeter top in German
MAY I correct your report on the funding council quality assessment overview reports (THES, December 6). The top-scoring German department was Exeter with 24 points. Given that you drew attention to...
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China tightens overseas rules
THE CHINESE State Education Commission has banned overseas institutions from setting up and running programmes or setting examinations for profit in China without government approval. The commission...
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Ex-polys can now reach for the stars in research
The performance of the 1960s universities in the research assessment exercise gives hope to their 1990s successors and destroys the case for an elite grouping, says Frank Gould It might be assumed...
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Cork pops over upgrade of tech institute
Education minister Niamh Bhreathnach has landed the Irish government in an unwelcome political row just a few months before a general election. It originates in a straightforward decision to upgrade...
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US to run bedside trials with pigs livers
SCIENTISTS IN the United States are to use "humanised" pig organs to offer critically ill patients a last chance of life. The transplantation of transgenic pig organs to humans - xenotransplantation...
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Health researchers
* Health researchers are calling on the Higher Education Funding Council for England to maintain some research funding for selected nursing departments with poor grades from last year's RAE, writes...
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Chinese solution to a puzzle
AS A VISITOR to Britain looking at the press, radio and television, one soon notices that China's amazing transformation is hardly reported. Few people are conscious of the huge success of over one...
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Soton managers set for showdown
GOVERNORS and managers at Southampton Institute are preparing for a showdown over calls in an independent report for "a different style of leadership". David Leyland, the institute's director, has...
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Police eye Swansea
The South Wales Police Fraud Squad is considering a full investigation into mismanagement at Swansea Institute of Higher Education following last week's damning National Audit Office report on its...
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Poll apart
So when will the general election be? If history repeats itself, put your money on April 10. That is the week when the Political Studies Association holds its annual meeting at the University of...
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The American incivil war
A GROUP of 48 academics and other intellectuals is addressing what is perceived to be a growing bad manners in American life. The commission, which was organised by the University of Pennsylvania,...
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Just say maybe, it depends on my friends
CHAOS theory could provide the key to helping drug addicts kick their habit. Alan Dean, a lecturer in the school of social and political sciences at Hull University, is identifying underlying...
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Sea change: Amanda Vincent, zoologist at Oxford University
(Photograph) - Sea change: Amanda Vincent, zoologist at Oxford University, says that seahorse populations around the world are collapsing as people use them for aphrodisiacs, aquariums and especially...
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Rolls spark shutdown
Physics and chemistry are in trouble. Physicists blame falling student numbers and cuts, while chemists finger the research assessment exercise At least five universities are threatening to shut down...
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Big buck
Glasgow University's staff newsletter has been enthusing about the Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition, to which it is the largest single lender, which has been wowing them in New York after drawing...