Scottish IT link gets Pounds 5m boost
Scottish higher education is poised to set up one of Europe's most advanced information technology networks, with a Pounds 5 million boost from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. SHEFC...
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When education is just a joke
Humour guru Joel Goodman had some prejudices to overcome when he addressed an audience at Leeds Metropolitan University recently on "The Positive Power of Humour". For the notoriously robust British...
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Job skills booster is catalyst for change
When captains of industry stand up to speak about higher education, what are they most likely to say? The answer, if the speeches of the past decade are anything to go by, is that they will claim...
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Graduate pay perks push up prices
Graduate recruiters need to rethink their recruitment strategy if they are going to compete with the financial houses which can offer ever bigger pay packets and perks, according to international...
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Leeds v-c to chair CVCP finance group
Alan Wilson, vice chancellor of Leeds University, is to chair the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals group on university finances, resources and management. The group is one of nine created...
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All aboard
(Photograph) - All aboard: Lisa Clayton, the first woman to sail single-handed and unaided round the world, was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of science by the University of Birmingham earlier...
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Divorce dictates trends in 1990s Britain
Researchers from Lancaster University are investigating new trends in migration suggesting that divorce rather than jobs is setting the pattern in 1990s Britain. People in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
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Electric boots heal the sole
Rami Abboud finds the latest fashions in ladies' footwear "horrible". But his concern is clinical rather than aesthetic: he is a biomedical and rehabilitation engineer at Dundee University, and...
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Student aid scheme creaks into action
A financial aid scheme for South Africa's 70,000 needy students at universities and technikons has finally been given the go ahead. But with less than four months to go before the start of the 1996...
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Chinese scholars to major in Singapore
The Singaporean government has granted full scholarships to 350 students from the People's Republic of China. The students will study in Singapore from between three and five years and receive...
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Moscow seeks to energise science
Russian premier Viktor Chernomyrdin has set the development of science as a state major priority, after the first meeting of the government's new Commission for Science and Technical Policy. The...
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Portuguese close ranks
Rectors in Portugal are to meet with university lecturers' unions to try to hammer out a common position on higher education to present to the incoming Socialist government. The prospect of wide-...
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Gaza's eye on future
Paul Jeffrey assesses the mood in Gaza, where Al-Azhar University looks forward to peace, and in shocked Jerusalem Gaza's two higher education institutes, the Islamic University and Al-Azhar...
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Hard work for students
My immediate reaction to Gordon Conway's comment in Don's Diary (THES, October ) that "employment of up to 15 hours a week ought not seriously to interfere with (undergraduates') studies" was that...