May or may not
Rumours persist in Whitehall that Bob May, the Oxford University-based biologist, initially refused to continue with his appointment as the Government's chief scientific adviser on being notified of...
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Shrunken team on expanded stage
The triple jump, suddenly fashionable in the wake of Jonathan Edwards' spectacular victory at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenberg, could provide further British triumphs at the World...
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How would you do?
Another cherished piece of academic legend bites the dust. Almost as resilient as the old Oxford joke about late Victorian redbrick Keble College "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la gare" is the...
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Seeded first
There's nothing like an interesting visitor to ease the longueurs of the summer months, so there was a warm welcome from the Higher Education Funding Council for England information department when a...
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Baby girl brings hope to infertile
Staff at Aberdeen University's assisted reproduction unit are celebrating the safe arrival of the first Scottish baby conceived using a new infertility treatment. The little girl was born earlier...
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Metabolic rate: a Gas Exchange Measurement calorimeter
(Photograph) - Metabolic rate: a Gas Exchange Measurement calorimeter has been developed by the department of anaesthesia at the University of Manchester and Europa Scientific to treat patients...
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Nottingham leads way with doctors and nurses merger
Nottingham University's faculty of medicine and health sciences has taken on 1,800 new nursing students and more than Pounds 12 million of contracts after merging with the Mid-Trent College of...
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DIY dinner
The Calvinist work ethic has nothing on the one at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Professor Eddy Van Avermaet, welcoming delegates to a European adult education conference, praised...
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Tied in
Education union leaders displayed a remarkable consensus at a higher education fringe meeting at this week's Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow. Panellists David Triesman of the Association of...
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Singing coach
Watching the car parks has always been a handy way of tracking who's briefing who. So some interest should be attached to the sighting last week of a coach, billed as being on loan to outsize tenor...
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Merger plan for lecturers and teachers to be halted
Moves that could lead to a merger between the Association of University Teachers and the University Lecturers' Association of the Educational Institute of Scotland are set to be stifled today by the...
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Aroused Rowse goes into historical action
A. L. Rowse is 91, but like his fellow nonagenerian Lord Denning, he is never afraid of saying something controversial. Next week, he brings out Historians I Have Known where he attacks (and...
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The training scheme jobless
Nearly three-quarters of unemployed adults on the Government's Training For Work programme were still out of work three months after completing the course, according to Training and Enterprise...
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