A big wheel in industry circles
An impressive track record in attracting industrial funding for research brought personal congratulations from Prime Minister John Major for biologist Janet Hemingway and a Pounds 35,000 prize for...
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Credit where credit is due
A bold push into the sometimes bewildering world of credit accumulation and transfer has paid off for Welsh higher education institutions. Many thought they would never get it off the ground, but...
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Film course cuts run deep
The squeeze on higher education funding is threatening film and television courses and potentially jeopardising their respective industries, academics fear. Course organisers say that while funding...
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South Africa skill drill
A high-level trade mission to the Indian Ocean resort of Durban is boosting United Kingdom-South African education and training partnerships this week. Led by trade minister Anthony Nelson, the...
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Jet water breaks legs in theatre
Surgeons could soon be wielding high-speed water jet devices instead of saws for cutting through bones if work being carried out by Durham University researchers is successful. Speaking at the...
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Computer gets to bottom of back pain
Sufferers of lower back pain can look forward to better therapy if research at the University of Wales Aberystwyth proves successful. Estimates for the cost of back pain in the United Kingdom run...
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Return to Coventry
How sure can we be that the Higher Education Funding Council for England is heading in the right direction with its plans for teaching and research? A question worth asking after the adventures of...
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Socks shopped
The journal later reports that Murphy's Law is alive and well and living in your sock drawer. Robert Matthews investigated the dictum that "if anything can go wrong it will" by creating a theoretical...
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Observatories set for private sell-off
The Department of Trade and Industry was expected yesterday to open bidding for the ownership of the Royal observatories to the private sector. Both the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Royal...
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Happy days
(Photograph) - Happy days: Students at Wi****ersrand University, which with other universities and technikons have become part of a united system
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Queen's supports legislature move
Queen's University is backing a plan to take the "storm" out of Stormont. Its outreach centre in Armagh is supporting an ambitious project to site a new parliamentary body 40 miles from the...
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Savage at school helm
Vice chancellors should beware of Nigel Savage. He is about to take the helm of a new "university" and is out to get a nice slice of their business, writes Tony Tysome. Professor Savage, one of the...
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NUS anger
The National Union of Students has expressed its disappointment with the 18-month suspended sentence given to landlord Thomas Beedie, of Cottingham, near Hull, at Sheffield Crown Court on Monday. The...