Alas poor Celt
(Photograph) - Alas poor Celt: Archaeologist Bob Watts holds a severed human skull, possibly a Celtic sacrifice, found around Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales. University of Bradford staff are...
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Probe into why doctors drop out
The British Medical Association is drawing up plans to follow the careers of 500 medical students to discover why up to a quarter drop out of the profession three years after qualifying. One possible...
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Vice chancellors' pay
Huw Richards surveys the information currently available on top people's pay in institutions for 1993/94 In the notes which accompany the financial statement, balance sheet and auditors' report for...
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Simon Baker
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Nationalism's healthy state
"Ten years ago, everyone wanted to study Marxism. Today, it is nationalism and ethnicity." So said Brendan O'Leary, lecturer at the London School of Economics, at the fifth annual conference of the...
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Supercrete to rule world
A world of half-mile high skyscrapers has come closer with the development of a new super concrete at Dundee University. "Nothing can touch this material. It has amazing properties," said Rod Jones...
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V-cs talk of deal on quality
The Higher Education Funding Council submitted its proposals for a single quality assurance agency to Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, this week amid hopes that agreement had at...
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Sting in the tail
The maxim that there is no such thing as bad publicity seems to be in vogue at the Natural Environment Res-earch Council, as anyone who has just turned to June in the NERC calendar has seen. Pin-up...
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Water alert
Even worse than the scorpions in Oxford are the students. A three-man crime wave from Oxford was abruptly stopped by a police siege recently. Trouble was, when the police finally rounded up the...
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By the book
There's one book which Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students, has never got round to reading, although he says he has always meant to read it: the constitution of the NUS. "It's...
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Sacked cleaners win case
London University has had to pay a further Pounds 300,000 in compensation to former cleaning staff whose jobs in halls of residence were switched to private contractors two years ago. The last...
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Passing fancy
Edinburgh University medical researchers yesterday held a press conference on their survey of rugby injuries, accompanied by a student at the university, Gregor Townsend, who has more than a passing...
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Thanks a lot
Acknowledgements can be lengthy but no academic paper has ever thanked as many people as the independently published, Trilogic Ennealogica Systems (TES) as Sciences for Creative Thinking in Knowledge...
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Trent's Powerhouse plays host to censorship storm
Nottingham Trent University has been accused of censorship after its decision to cancel a performance of the controversial play Geek at the end of last month. The play, which was due to show at the...
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Art mimics life
(Photograph) - Art mimics life: computer artist William Latham creates his work by mimicking genetic processes that generate life on computer. Latham, who recently gave a presentation at the...