Funding council patches up Paisley
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has intervened for a second time to protect a teacher education course at Paisley University threatened by Government intake cuts, writes Olga Wojtas....
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UK lacks social skills
Those who live in a country awaiting an imminent disaster such as an earthquake, flood or drought can look to the United Kingdom for top-quality expertise. But UK experts are better at preparing...
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Highlands mission
Activists for a University of the Highlands and Islands believe it is a step closer to reality with an impending investigation by Millennium Commission consultants. The development agency Highlands...
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Loans bill defeats
Two amendments to the Education (Student Loans) Bill have been defeated this week in the House of Lords. The Bill's committee stage, on Tuesday, began with an amendment moved by Lord Morris to limit...
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Industry cash could boost science
Industrial expenditure on research and development should be boosted by billions of pounds, and also be accompanied by a rapid increase in the number of university students studying science, in order...
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Pet defective
Pets and degrees are clearly a dangerous combination. After the Heriot-Watt graduation certificate, which had to be replaced when the graduate's Labrador puppy buried it in the garden, a Reading...
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Sandwich course
As Scotland's higher education institutions grit their teeth over this week's grant allocations, at least they cannot accuse the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council of being profligate with its...
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A split cause for schizophrenia
A Newcastle academic claims he has beaten the mainstream of schizophrenia researchers to discover that schizophrenia is caused by a single gene plus three environmental factors. Schizophrenia, like...
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Police investigate South Bank union
Police were called to South Bank University student union this week to investigate allegations that executive officers misused union funds. Officers from Southwark police station are investigating...
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Breast team wins
The excitement of gene-hunting was described last week by Mike Stratton of the Institute of Cancer Research, whose team recently won an international race to isolate the breast cancer gene, BRCA2. "...
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Brush strokes
The world's most exciting gathering of mathematicians ever takes place at Oxford University next week. The topic? Well, according to Oxford University's press office the mathematicians will be "...
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Trees a crowd
Wishful thinking on the part of Aberdeen University's students association? Its motion to tomorrow's National Union of Students' Scottish conference, on "urgent environmental issues", warns that...
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On your honour
This week's prize for maintaining the value of honorary awards by keeping them scarce goes to the University of Edinburgh, which announced last week that it will be awarding 24 honorary degrees in...
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Cherie picking
Following the Daily Express's characteristically discreet, low-key appeal for dirt on the early life of Cherie Booth QC, aka the other half of the leader of Her Majesty's Very Loyal Opposition, we...
