Figaro makes return to Nigeria
The Trenchard Hall, named after a pioneer British university administrator, is acquiring a renewed reputation for the return of classical music to the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Each...
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Physicist's credentials
I apologise for the lateness of my response to Helmut Rechenberg's review of my book Hitler's Uranium Club (THES, January 26). I wish to comment only on the last paragraph. "Bernstein criticises and...
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Karbovantsy cuts hit the Ukraine
Ukraine has announced major cuts in higher education following a Presidential decision to reduce the state wage bill. The country's post-Soviet economic crisis has meant that government employees,...
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Maths data 15 years out of date
David Reynolds and Shaun Farrell, authors of the recent OFSTED report Worlds Apart? (THES, August 9), are quoted as saying that "There is nothing to support those who would criticise maths and...
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NUS calls for reform of entrance procedures
The National Union of Students has called for reform of the university applications and admissions system amid a mad scramble for places after this year's A-level results. The NUS believes that the...
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Oxbridge links up with Met office and Oxheading
Computer-generated weather forecasts could become more accurate thanks to an initiative just launched by the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in collaboration with the Meteorological Office....
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Astronomers lose vital eye in the sky
A prolific astronomical satellite, which was launched on a three-year mission in 1978 but is still active, is to be shut down in six weeks' time because of funding problems. The International...
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Mature policy pays dividends
Richard Disney argues that the UK, unlike its international competitors, is not facing a crisis from an ageing population thanks to radical cutbacks in social security provision and the increasing...
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Top Scots cash in
Seven Scottish universities are to share almost Pounds 240,000 following "excellent" ratings in the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's latest quality assessment. There were seven excellents...
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Green killer
(Photograph) - Green killer: Philip Howse, joint head of the centre for bio-electrostatics at Southampton University, shows off his environmentally-friendly cockroach trap, which uses an...
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Pecs win readers
A handy tip for those trying to promote science to the public comes this week from New Scientist, which displayed its front covers to a conference in Cambridge and then revealed which had sold the...
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Image set for a polish
Engineering courses cannot recruit. A campaign to promote engineering as exciting, relevant and remunerative was launched last week. Engineering is regarded by many students as dull, routine and...
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True intentions cannot be hidden
The joint planning group on the single agency for quality assurance in higher education wants to nationalise the universities. Its intentions are apparent all along the line in the detailed proposals...