Ulster teaches nurses to keep cool in a disaster
The sinking of the Estonia passenger ship, the Kobe earthquake, the Manchester bombing, refugees in the former Yugoslavia, flooding in Bangladesh: the list of recent natural and man-made disasters...
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Welsh RAE losers
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has decided departments in Welsh institutions awarded a rating of 1 or 2 in the latest research assessment exercise will receive no RAE-based funding.
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Thatcher brickbat
Lecturers at Brunel University have condemned the "secrecy" surrounding the decision to award Baroness Thatcher an honorary doctorate. The Association of University Teachers says it will be calling...
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Pension harmony
The response by Joan Gordon, Natfhe's pension officer (THES January 24), to the proposal for a Higher Education Superannuation Scheme, is that to set up a new pension scheme "is likely to result in a...
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How to teach: an old dog, new tricks
I AM ALWAYS impressed by the alacrity with which some newly appointed vice chancellors say they will carry on teaching. Anthony Giddens, incoming director of the London School of Economics, is a...
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Aussies mug up on European law
The University of New South Wales in Australia has established the first centre for the study of European law outside Europe and the United States. The European Law Centre will provide an Asian-...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Go to Wakefield. I am on my way to the First International Conference on GeoComputing at Leeds University, but I am staying with a friend in Wakefield. We are supposed to meet at Kirkgate...
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Crunch time for fee warning
MOST universities have to decide this month whether to include a disclaimer in their 1998 prospectuses warning that fees could be introduced. Advice issued last month to the Committee of Vice...
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Fat is a contentious issue
Richard Klein misses two vital points. One is that in the European context at least, fatness has nearly always been admired in women, not in men; and the other is that extreme fatness and extreme...
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English chiefs in RAE protest
English studies heads have expressed dismay over the "absurdly low" proportion of their departments awarded top ratings in the latest research assessment exercise. The Council for College and...
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Language disability key to brain
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy who has an IQ of about 130 but consistently fails on a number of simple grammatical tasks may hold the key to understanding how the mind is organised, scientists claim. The boy,...
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Cornwall to name site for campus
Cornwall's proposed new university will be designed to support "lifetime learning", Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice chancellor of Exeter University, has promised. Schools, colleges and workplaces...
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Weave ideas for material change
Organisational learning is far more difficult to achieve than individual learning, since knowledge has to be shared and woven into an institution's very fabric. Ideally, organisational learning...
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Bacteria eat copper
RESEARCHERS at the University of Abertay Dundee have discovered a new species of bacterium which they believe could help solve a major pollution problem in one of Scotland's key industries. The...
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Top paid v-cs pull ahead
In the third THES top people's pay survey we are able to draw direct comparisons for the first time between pay over two consecutive years, because 1995-96 was the second year in which institutions...