Banks like to Learn
Commercial banks and policy makers have expressed an interest a Learning Bank, an idea which is being considered by the Labour Party. A discussion paper which describes how a Learning Bank might...
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Stones may be meteor mapper
The first Stonehenge was built to observe terrifying meteor storms plaguing the skies - and may have been part of a massive cultural change as people united to cope, an astronomer has claimed. The...
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'Right wing' German history disowned
The editors of a multi-volume history of Germany are demanding that the publisher include a note in the latest volume on the National Socialist period distancing them from the views it expresses....
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Changes ahead
From January 1996, Noticeboard will change its emphasis to give more space to people in further and higher education in terms of appointments, promotions, honours, awards, fellowships, etc, of...
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The moral maze of genetic knowledge
The "right" to know about one's health has dominated discussions about the ethics of genetic screening, a conference will hear tomorrow. But the "right not to know" has received little attention,...
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Labour sparks FE row
A Labour Government would devolve further education funding and policy decisions to new regional councils, it emerged this week. Much of the power currently vested in the Further Education Funding...
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New cancer chief
The Cancer Research Campaign is soon to have a new director-general, Gordon McVie. Professor McVie, 50, will be the first scientist in the post. He is now scientific director at the charity, which...
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Mary Robinson, president of Ireland
(Photograph) - Irish precedent: Mary Robinson, president of Ireland, gave a lecture at the London School of Economics. on her recent visit to Britain where she met the Queen. She spoke on "Academic...
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Labour lashes research policy
The Labour Party has warned that quality research is suffering under short-term policies. Speaking in a recent Parliamentary debate on science and technology, John Battle, then shadow science...
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Call for school maths inspectors
University mathematicians this week urged the Government to set up a mathematics inspectorate for schools to halt a serious decline in students' ability in the subject. Their call is a key...
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Right plight
Anyone for a cull of right-wing thinkers? Himself no socialist, Gray suggested at the conference that there is now an unfeasible surplus of believers in unfettered free market forces, while believers...
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Put out to copy
Are there no limits to the compassion of the Natural Death Centre? Launched in 1991, it helps those who look after someone dying at home. And it organises "cheap, green and DIY funerals". Its concern...
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The missed of time
Dundee University's department of modern history this week launched the new Tayside and Fife Historical Research Institute. Chris Whatley, head of Dundee's department of modern history, explained...
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Chips down for old Soviet-bloc clerics
Cutbacks in spending by the Church of England could endanger a scholarship scheme for clerics and theological students from the former Communist bloc, according to Canon Michael Bordeaux. He raised...
