Going west
Ron Johnston, who is to retire as vice chancellor of Essex University at the end of the academic year, has been appointed professor of geography at Bristol University. Ivor Crewe, professor of...
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Humber on board
The University of Humberside has replaced Nottingham Trent University in the project to establish a University of Lincolnshire. The plan is to admit the first 500 students in autumn 1996....
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The Union chief predicts recruitment crisis . . . while OU takes on 33 new tech staff
The Open University is taking on 33 new staff in one of its largest recruitment drives since it was set up just over 25 years ago. The jobs are aimed at helping the university harness new...
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Extra special
Bill Styles, council chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, reveals in the latest British Medical Association News Review that while he was a student at St Mary's Hospital Medical...
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Graham Gibbs
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The X files
VE day isn't the only big anniversary this year - 1995 also marks the centenary of the invention of the X-ray and proof that even the greatest scientists get it wrong sometimes. Lord Kelvin's...
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Popper's friends mount last ditch attempt to retain library in Britain
A final bid to keep Karl Popper's library in the country is being made by a group of friends and admirers headed by one of his former students at the London School of Economics. Last weekend, Sotheby...
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V-cs eye single quality road
Vice chancellors are being canvassed by the Committee of Vice and Chancellors and Principals for their views on a single quality agency, as proposed by the chairman of the CVCP in a letter to the...
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Cutbacks shouldn't happen to a vet
Veterinary schools are facing serious financial problems because a doubling of their undergraduate intakes has not been matched by funding increases, says the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons....
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Love thy neighbour
Heriot-Watt University's Norwegian Students Association has led Edinburgh's celebrations of Norwegian Constitution day on May 17, marked by an early morning ascent of Arthur's Seat, (the nearest...
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Scots union overhaul
There is uncertainty over future union support for the Educational Institute of Scotland's College Lecturers' Association as a result of the increasing localisation of education. The EIS is...
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Colleges to bid for data rooms
A Pounds 20 million Millennium Fund proposal for further education colleges envisages their becoming information centres for use by the whole community. The bid for cash by the Further Education...
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Head teachers offer peace
School head teachers have offered to work with college principals to help heal the wounds caused by hostile local battles for 16-year-olds. Joint local curriculum boards and a code of practice on...
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Borders penalised for unfair dismissal
A senior lecturer in health studies at Borders College has been awarded the maximum compensation for unfair dismissal of Pounds 11,000 by an industrial tribunal. Sandra Lewis was made redundant after...
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Welsh consider capital idea
Welsh universities and colleges have been asked whether they would like recurrent and capital funding to be merged. A consultation paper issued this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for...