Star billing for students
Students across Britain may soon be watching and even making their very own digital soap operas and short films following a pilot at the University of Greenwich. Programmes beamed by satellite direct...
Search
-
-
Lawyers reach pact over Bar School
The Commission for Racial Equality has called off an investigation into Bar School course results showing white students gaining more passes than their black peers. Plans to launch a formal inquiry...
-
Fur flies in unholy row over dress code
Academics from Cambridge University's four theological colleges have succeeded in winning enthusiastic support from on high for a new vocational degree called the bachelor of theology for ministry....
-
Answer in soil
Soil and water could be the source of new anti-cancer drugs, scientists from the Cancer Research Campaign have said. They have developed such drugs from compounds produced by common bacteria which...
-
-
Help for disabled
FE colleges are being asked to comment on new regulations requiring them to publish information on facilities for the disabled to help them make informed choices. The Government launched a three-...
-
Telescopic sight
(Photograph) - Gavin Dalton, a lecturer, adjusts the first new telescope in Oxford University for 30 years which is about to be installed in the former university observatory.
-
Lecturer unions square up for new pay fight
Industrial action could sweep university and college campuses this year as funding cuts force lecturer redundancies and rule out pay rises. Lecturers' unions say they have little choice but to push...
-
Ethics reports on animal organ transplants multiply
In the rush to examine the ethics of transplanting animal organs into humans, three different top committees are to produce reports, writes Aisling Irwin. The Government this week announced the...
-
Experts split on shift to basics
Academics who have joined forces to produce a book on Government policy options are split over calls for a reduction in higher education funding. Contributing authors to Options for Britain: A...
-
Flamingo road
Forget the status symbol of a Jaguar car on a newly-gravelled drive. Derek Drummond, professor of architecture at McGill University in Montreal, thinks a better sign to watch for is the presence of a...
-
Hacks on heat
Geographers may have to revise their old assurances that the climate of the west of Scotland is wet and warm. Last week's conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers...
-
Bad tidings
Colin McCallum, Strathclyde's director of external affairs and development, was in Canada over Christmas when his father-in-law rang to say: "I've got some bad news for you - your house is flooded."...
-
Powder puff
(Photograph) - Powder puff: The Rake's Progress by Hogarth inspired an exhibition called "Theatre". It includes stage design by students from Central St Martin's and costume design by students from...
-
Cabbage technology
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to provide Pounds 600,000 for research aimed at developing environmentally friendly technologies. Projects include devices for generating...