Eight again
Cambridge dons have voted to retain the eight-week term. Most universities operate a ten week term, often with a reading week in the middle. Lecturers were asked to vote on whether to introduce a...
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Sci-fi fund
If you want to write a science soap opera, drama or serial there is money for you from the PAWS (Public Awareness of Science) drama script fund. The fund has been set up to encourage high quality...
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Bill of rights
Cambridge University Students Union launched a charter for undergraduates and guidelines for graduate study this week. The union will use the charter, which sets out the standard of education and...
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Workers carry on regardless of tax rate
High taxes do not discourage people from working, say researchers in the psychology of economics. The comments come a week before the budget -- psychologists are complaining that economists are not...
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Long road to freedom
A stark picture of university life in Nigeria was painted by Nigerian academic and Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka on his arrival in Paris this week. "The education system is dead," said Mr...
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First annual report of the Chief Inspector of Further Education Funding Council
The first annual report from the Further Education Funding Council's chief inspector, which involved the inspection of more than 100 colleges, has concluded that the sector is "dynamic, responsive...
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Light fingers
(Photograph) - Light fingers: Caught Shoplifting, a painting by John Smith, a student at Loughborough College of Art and Design, was part of the backdrop for the Blackburn Lectures, given at...
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Status bid by colleges queried
Vice chancellors have been unable to come to an agreement on what to do about colleges which use the word "university" in their titles. Instead, a council meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors...
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Charities warn lottery will hit donations
Research funding charities are predicting a big drop in income starting this week when the national lottery is launched. The National Kidney Research Fund and the Kidney Foundation, which between...
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Suffer little children ...
Developmental psychologists have had a good press this century. Generally avoiding most Freudian excesses, they have established acceptable, clear guidelines covering the normal stages of physical,...
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The ghost in the machine
Most of us are intrigued by our own consciousness. But reading recent books written by eminent people leaves us baffled by what seems to be a demarcation dispute. The explanation of human...
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AUT aims for uniform pay - but not yet
The THES (November 11) correctly reported that the Association of University Teachers was not in favour of either joint pay scales or joint bargaining for academic and related staffs in "old" and "...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. Car from Anglesey to Manchester, then to Nice via Brussels. At the airport study a 15-page Ministry of Agriculture form on which proposals must be submitted. Seems longer than some research...
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Fat cats in top hats
Here are the dates of foundation of the precursors of the major British government funding agencies for science and higher education: Medical Research Council, 1913; Science and Engineering Research...