Number's up
Alumni to be proud of no 24: Peter Davis, the National Lottery regulator, described by one paper last year as a certainty for a knighthood at the end of his term of office, and by himself as "a...
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Natural selection
And hello to Sarah Darwin, who works at the Linnaean Society. Naturally selected for the job after tough competition.
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Bard comments
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. A dispute has erupted in the heart of England where a bronze bust of the poet Rabindranath Tagore has been presented to the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford...
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Tender touch
(Photograph) - Tender touch: the University of Sunderland sponsored an exhibition in London this term by Virginia Bodman, its senior lecturer in charge of painting, called "Strong Meat". Her images...
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V-cs plan paper on funding ideas
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has asked university heads to produce a consultation paper on funding. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will announce its plans to publish...
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Fears of loans' cost
Universities would subsidise the cost of processing new privatised student loans under Government proposals, it emerged this week. Loan applications already cost higher education institutions Pounds...
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Living in the fast lane
Julius Tomin ended a seven-day fast in Oxford on Monday with a bowl of chicken broth. "This was the best hunger strike of my life. Not eating for a week renewed my strength," he said. Czech dissident...
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Union split
The split between further and higher education trade unions continued to jeopardise hopes of a joint pay claim next year. In a stinging letter Association of University Teachers assistant general...
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Gene genie
Geneticists agree they have taken a risk by releasing a long genetic sequence, thought to contain a gene that can make people susceptible to breast cancer, onto the Internet. The scientists, from the...
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Dual blow to research base
The science budget is to be cut by well over Pounds 50 million in real terms in the next three years. This, combined with cuts in higher education funding generally, could seriously damage university...
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Internet News
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication Conscious...
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All the president's men out in force
Northern Ireland's two universities were preparing to heave a monumental sigh of relief today as President Bill Clinton was due to leave the province after his historic visit. The president and his...
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Funding merger warning
Rumours of the possible merger of the higher and further education funding councils have set alarm bells ringing in both the college and university sectors. Ruth Gee, chief executive of the...
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Time to push the reactive button
As we contemplate yet another deeply disappointing public expenditure settlement, university and college staff throughout the United Kingdom must be wondering just what they have to do to recreate...
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Confucius and chips
They will be dancing in the streets of the Chinese capital Beijing tonight, as they do every night. There will be long, sinuous serpentine dragon dances in the quiet squares, and, in the underpasses...