Taken for granted
The National Lottery Charities Board (THES, December 13) is prohibited from making grants to individuals. It can only give funds to charitable, philanthropic or benevolent bodies. Therefore,...
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Dressing down
Strathclyde University has just held the grand final of its ferociously competitive University Challenge, whose first round saw the senior officers beaten so ignominiously that they claim their...
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Chill touch of the ghostly past
An eerie mystery is unfolding in the bowels of Queen's University, Belfast. Academics are baffled by things that not only go bump in the night, but during daytime as well. Staff have reported some...
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Dundee confirms course cut
Dundee University's court has backed a senate decision to axe undergraduate teaching in education despite strong lobbying by students. The popular joint MA course in educational studies was launched...
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The flaws in the RAE
COMMENTING on the results of the research assessment exercise (THES, December 20), you remark that: "...the disappointed will naturally seek flaws". Indeed. But what is to be done when the flaws are...
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Kick back: Rachel Salt
(Photograph) - Rachel Salt displays the form that earned her fifth place in the recent European Tae Kwan Do championships held in Helsinki. The Wolverhampton University second-year sports science...
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Jews seek return of historic manuscripts
A COLLECTION of more than 100,000 Hebrew and Yiddish publications, some dating back to the 17th century, has become the focus of a dispute between the National Library of Lithuania and Jewish...
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Summer cum laude in Saratoga Springs
Things begin to heat up at Skidmore College, a liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, up-state New York, when the students leave for the summer. Children as young as six arrive for basketball and...
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Development bid
The Overseas Development Administration is expected to announce next week a shortlist of bidders for the Natural Resources Institute in Chatham Maritime, Kent. Bidders being considered include...
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Marriages made in heaven?
The new Association of Colleges is launched this week and the Further Education Funding Council gets a new head next month. Harriet Swain assesses their chances of shaping the future of further...
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Cash for colleges
Oxford University's academics will soon vote on whether to release a plot of land for a Pounds 20 million business school funded by Syrian entrepreneur Wafic Said. Valentine Cunningham explains why...
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A parrot learns to count, after a fashion
Scientists claimed to have taught a parrot to count items and identify objects and colours. The grey parrot, called Alex, was cited as an example of how complex cognitive capacities existed in a...
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Monarch of glen takes the high road
Brian Duffield, dean of the faculty of cultural and education studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, has been appointed chief executive of UHI Ltd, the body taking forward plans for a new...
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Bloomsbury grouping set fair for millennium
The British Museum has edged closer to its cherished aim of housing its collections in one location after receiving Pounds 8.1 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Elaine Williams reports. The...
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Web Des Res
It is refreshing to learn that not everyone thinks of the Internet as an ephemeral concept floating around in cyberspace. In a paper proposing a strategic alliance of HE institutions to provide...