Schools await SuperJANET offer
Anyone who can see a profitable way of connecting rural schools to the information superhighway should tell the Government by July 7. On Monday Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education,...
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Campus boost to local wealth proven
The nine universities in Yorkshire and Humberside are among the region's biggest employers, creating 24,000 jobs and spending Pounds 417 million on wages, according to a new survey by locally-based...
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Weight watchers
Trade unions in the old universities launched a campaign this week to overturn a freeze on the 1993 London weighting allowance imposed by vice chancellors. The unions say that backdating the payments...
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Acas talks
Lecturers' union Natfhe will today debate joining talks at Acas aimed at solving the long-running further education contracts dispute. The move follows fresh proposals from Colleges Employers Forum...
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Scots get go-ahead to hoard surpluses
Scottish university finance directors have welcomed a Government green light for building up institutional surpluses. Institutions have been wary of building up surpluses in case their apparent...
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THES Internet
The THES Internet Service, which includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper as well as all our job advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper, is available...
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Eek!
The tabloids will doubtless be excited to hear that the 50th birthday of Lord Plant, political theorist, Labour peer and chair of the party commission on electoral reform, was marked by the delivery...
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Odd Bods
Where can you buy a Relativity Mouse Mat, a pair of sterling silver earring replicas of Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, and a "bundle" of J. R. R. Tolkien goodies, all at the push of a button? Only in a...
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Saudi promises aid to Albania
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Islamic Affairs, Abdullah Bin Abd al-Mushin al-Turki, last week promised extensive aid to education in Albania. During discussions with Albania's education minister, al-...
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Return of the native
Rita Levi Montalcini lives in a top-floor apartment in Rome, five minutes walk from the university and the National Research Council. The grande dame of Italian scientific research is protected from...
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Plagiarist professor stripped of title
Else Kay Hoffmann, an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen's August Kroh Institute, was stripped of her doctorate last week because she copied other researchers' written works. An...
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Oxford quizzed over doctorate to professor
Cafas, the academic standards campaign group, is to question Oxford University about a doctorate awarded to a Glasgow professor of paediatric neurology after learning that the book that formed his...
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Smiles better
(Photograph) - Anthony Clare gave this year's Happiness Lecture at the University of Birmingham last week. He may have failed to enter into the spirit of things completely since his title was "The...
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Volcano ash chokes planes
When Mount Galunggung in Indonesia erupted in June 1982 a British Airways passenger jet flew into its plume. The engines were choked by the ash and the aircraft fell thousands of feet before the...
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Last bastion falls to the box
The last sizeable westernised culture to be without television will get it next January -- and researchers will be there to observe the effects. A team of researchers from Cheltenham and Gloucester...