Scholar fights on
Cyril Edwards, the linguistics scholar made redundant by Goldmiths College last year, has resigned from the Association of University Teachers because the union dropped its High Court case against...
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Scots TV pioneers
Scotland's higher education institutions have taken a cautious step towards establishing their own TV channel. The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals this week set up a group to talk...
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Sussex lookalikes
Plus ca change? A still politically-active alumnus of early 1970s Sussex University, cherishing memories of days when the Falmer campus's public spaces were "like one giant wall newspaper"...
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Campus sports lobby makes its debut
Sir Roger Bannister's working party to consider the place of sports scholarships in British universities met for the first time this week. The group, which will report back to sports minister Iain...
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Schools to eclipse college training
Teacher training colleges and university education departments stand to lose more funding and control to school-based training schemes under Government plans to be unveiled next week. Phased funding...
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Tooterling on
A warm welcome to The TooTer, a Gateshead College Natfhe journal devoted to "reporting all that is wrong with the state of contractual arrangements within FE colleges at the present time". Given this...
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Launch of plan to learn for life
The Government is preparing to publish an important consultation paper on "lifetime learning", Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, announced this week. The document,...
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LSE strip teaser
Alumni to be proud of no 14: Robert Watters, proprietor of Rick's, the Houston, Texas strip-bar whose past patrons have included O. J. Simpson, Sting and President Bush's 1992 Republican convention...
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Academic drift
At last a use for all the material that never made it into the research assessment exercise? This week the Friends of Dundee University's botanic garden organised a lecture by "alternative" floral...
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Speeding at 74
If biographers leave their imprint on their subjects, the converse is equally true. Shortly after telling a seminar about Gladstone's formidable, long-lived energy the 74-year-old Lord Jenkins was...
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V-cs transfixed by the other national lottery
Huw Richards, in the first of a four-part series, evaluates the impact of the Research Assessment Exercise for 1996. The Research Assessment Exercise enters its fourth incarnation next year amid...
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Otters tracked from droppings
Otter droppings and grouse feathers will allow scientists to help Scottish wildlife conservationists. An ecological molecular genetics laboratory opened this week at Aberdeen University, bringing...
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Nutritionist's food for thought
Nutritionists are so plagued by pressures from industry, governments and funding agencies that their science would appear "unacceptably relativist" to other disciplines, according to Prakash Shetty,...
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Coastal college changeover
The University College Scarborough swapped its allegiance from Leeds University to York this week in a move which reflects the sea change in relations between universities and their colleges. George...
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Worm turns muck into grass
One of the gardener's best friends, the worm, will face the formidable challenge next spring of converting a mixture of sewage sludge and colliery soil into relatively fertile soil. The task for the...