IRA prisoner issue 'strains' Irish peace
As serious disturbances again erupted in Northern Ireland, a peace studies expert is warning that the fragile peace process is being put under needless strain by delays in the transfer of Irish...
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Green team
Denton Hall, the international law firm, is sponsoring a new environmental and law management group at Imperial College, London. The aim of the group is to help lawyers better their understanding of...
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New crisis post-16
Work, full-time study or a training course? As young people juggle their options this week, new research warns universities and colleges of a looming "crisis" with post-16-year-olds beginning to turn...
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Bar to query race gap in pass rates
An investigation has been launched into why Bar School students from ethnic minority groups continue to be out-performed by their white peers. The Council of Legal Education has commissioned Birkbeck...
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Lay-offs spark Jewel and Esk strike vote
Ballot papers on industrial action are today going to staff at Jewel and Esk Valley College following the compulsory redundancy of three academics. The further education college says it has suffered...
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Welsh funding
The Welsh Office has made Pounds 1,1,162 available to the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales for Access funds in 1995/96, an increase of 2.4 per cent on the previous year. Access allocations...
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Me, me and Me
Opera singer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who set the Desert Island Discs all-comers record for self-referentiality by choosing eight records of her own performances, has an intellectual soul-mate in...
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Hot stuff
Languid, phlegmatic and even inert are among adjectives that might be used to describe the staff of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals but never, until now, overheated. However, is...
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Grammar rules
Alumni to be proud of numbers two and three: Corpus Christi College, Oxford boasted as undergraduates, at one and the same time, Roger Waterhouse, now vice chancellor of Derby University and Richard...
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Professor young
Liverpool University is harbouring a prodigy. A recent copy of their Precinct newsletter includes a heartfelt plea from "An eight-year-old professor's daughter, tall, blonde and beautiful . . ....
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Looking through the eyes of Islam:Hizb ut-Tahrir
(Photograph) - Looking through the eyes of Islam: a rally by the Islamic extremist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, attracted protests from the National Union of Students this week - but passed off peacefully.
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ACTIN up to tap the cleverness of plants
Planting fields of plastic, and coppicing willows for the village power station are just some of the ways in which British agriculture might have to diversify to keep up with international...
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NUS keys into open access by global college
A global further and higher education virtual college with open access for everyone and driven by student demand was unveiled this week as the National Union of Students' vision for learning in the...
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Mining a native talent
John Davies talks to Bernard Rands, the Harvard composer originally inspired by colliery bands. You would not have taken the dapper grey-haired man in a suit who waited in the lobby of his London...
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Assemblies minus instruction manuals
David Walker argues that the unwritten British constitution is in dire need of some academic corrections, while Vernon Bogdanor (right) laments the sorry state of local government. Well, it works...