Autonomy battle for Eire
The Irish government faces parliamentary defeat over proposals for legislation seen to limit university autonomy, even though the details of the Bill have not yet been officially published. A vote on...
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Fraser fingered
Sir William Fraser, former vice chancellor of Glasgow University, could head the joint planning group that will seek to establish a single body for quality in higher education. His name has been...
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Fender's doorstop aims to ease the pain of RAE
Two hundred and forty-two pages of funding council documents thudded on to university doormats this week as the final guidance and criteria for the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise were issued....
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Action on extremism
The National Union of Students is to send a dossier listing verbal and physical abuse that students have suffered at the hands of fascist groups, Islamic extremist groups and religious cults to...
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Slick film
A project which uses the latest telecommunications technology to improve pollution control in the North Sea oil industry is the first winner of the Pounds 25,000 Enterprise Oil and Heriot-Watt...
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Entente cordiale
The private sector is backing a new Anglo-French scholarship scheme to the tune of Pounds 2.5 million over five years. About 20 British and French companies, including British Airways and Pernod...
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The moral maze of genetic knowledge
The "right" to know about one's health has dominated discussions about the ethics of genetic screening, a conference will hear tomorrow. But the "right not to know" has received little attention,...
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Labour sparks FE row
A Labour Government would devolve further education funding and policy decisions to new regional councils, it emerged this week. Much of the power currently vested in the Further Education Funding...
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New cancer chief
The Cancer Research Campaign is soon to have a new director-general, Gordon McVie. Professor McVie, 50, will be the first scientist in the post. He is now scientific director at the charity, which...
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Mary Robinson, president of Ireland
(Photograph) - Irish precedent: Mary Robinson, president of Ireland, gave a lecture at the London School of Economics. on her recent visit to Britain where she met the Queen. She spoke on "Academic...
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Labour lashes research policy
The Labour Party has warned that quality research is suffering under short-term policies. Speaking in a recent Parliamentary debate on science and technology, John Battle, then shadow science...
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Call for school maths inspectors
University mathematicians this week urged the Government to set up a mathematics inspectorate for schools to halt a serious decline in students' ability in the subject. Their call is a key...
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Right plight
Anyone for a cull of right-wing thinkers? Himself no socialist, Gray suggested at the conference that there is now an unfeasible surplus of believers in unfettered free market forces, while believers...
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Put out to copy
Are there no limits to the compassion of the Natural Death Centre? Launched in 1991, it helps those who look after someone dying at home. And it organises "cheap, green and DIY funerals". Its concern...
