Experts follow gun trail
ACADEMICS at Leicester University are warning that the Government may be jumping the gun on firearms legislation. While the House of Lords is considering amendments to gun laws in the wake of the...
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Disabled set alarm bells ringing
LAST WEEK vice chancellors and principals met to discuss the impact of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act on universities and colleges. Only the week before, Unison members joined a mass lobby of...
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Young designers taste haute couture
FRENCH luxury goods companies have launched two projects aimed at finding talented students who can bring new ideas to a sector steeped in tradition. The 75 fashion houses, jewellers, perfume and...
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Phil Redmond
(Photograph) - Head start: Phil Redmond, creator of TV soap Brookside and honorary professor at Liverpool John Moores University was the first viewer of the Web site promoting JMU's Millennium...
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Why a pint is just a tonic
WITH Christmas and New Year upon us, a British analytical chemist believes there is every reason for those who enjoy the occasional for those who enjoy the occasional pint to take heart. According to...
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Better by design
Coventry University has won Pounds 30,000 funding from the Department for Education and Employment under its Discipline Network scheme to establish a national network in Information Design linking...
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Ignorance of funders
WE NOTE and support the chorus of criticism over the classification of geography and psychology as "classroom-based" disciplines (THES, December 20). Like them, archaeology is believed to have been...
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Publish and be crammed
Hugh Willmott believes that under the guise of improving efficiency the research assessment exercise has produced a Kafkaesque nonsense of product degradation. "Well, I've already got my four (...
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Open, improving and accountable
Britain's university research assessments provide a once-in-four-years snapshot of its academic research endeavour, a picture open for the world to see. The 1996 results show both the level of...
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Academics win 18 per cent rise
Academics at four Australian universities have won pay rises of up to 18 per cent and most of the other 32 public tertiary institutions are expected to reach salary agreements with the higher...
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All Brothers together in Bethlehem city
SMOKE rises up into the air heavy with chattering voices and clattering trays. Denim-clad students sit at nicotine-stained plastic tables spilling over with books and files. A typical lunch-time...
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Pretoria seeks greater control
Most South African universities have welcomed proposals for reform but some fear government interference. Karen Mac Gregor reports from Durban. The South African government is to secure far firmer...
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Bomb blasts Islam off course
Attempts to set up a new Islamic studies course in Strasbourg are apparently being hampered by a fresh wave of anxiety about Islamic fundamentalism triggered by the recent bomb attack on the Paris...
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Tunnel of terror
(Photograph) - Tunnel of terror: John Adams of University College, London, says that the Channel tunnel is bound to become a terrorist target. On page 14 he describes how the problem will be...
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Students against fees proposals
THE IDEA of postgraduate loans (THES, December 6), funded from the private sector, is nothing new. The "deal" negotiated by the '94 Group of Universities is no different from what is on offer on the...