Acronym angst
The Campaign for Release from an Acronym-Sodden Society, CRASS, has awarded its April wooden spoon to Bradford University's planned European programme of environmental education, the Module on...
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Gender pioneer
Dundee University, which is setting up Scotland's first chair in gender relations, also boasts the first woman to hold a chair in a Scottish University. Margaret Fairlie, a pioneer user of radium who...
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Criminal conundrum spawns retribution
Government rhetoric about crime prevention has not been matched by action, but there has been an impact at local level. Adam Edwards, research officer at the centre for the study of public order at...
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Satellite launch boost for UK
The United Kingdom's environmental scientists will reap huge dividends from the European satellite, ERS-2, due for launch last night. The satellite will watch changes in the earth's seas and...
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Wakey, wakey
Graeme Davies, former chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is a tornado in his new job as principal of Glasgow University, not least because of his speedy dispatch of...
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Postgrad's war on principal
A former Aberdeen University postgraduate could face imprisonment after being found guilty of breaching a court order banning him from disseminating defamatory information about the university. Peter...
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Natural selection
And hello to Sarah Darwin, who works at the Linnaean Society. Naturally selected for the job after tough competition.
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Bard comments
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. A dispute has erupted in the heart of England where a bronze bust of the poet Rabindranath Tagore has been presented to the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford...
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Tender touch
(Photograph) - Tender touch: the University of Sunderland sponsored an exhibition in London this term by Virginia Bodman, its senior lecturer in charge of painting, called "Strong Meat". Her images...
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V-cs plan paper on funding ideas
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has asked university heads to produce a consultation paper on funding. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will announce its plans to publish...
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Fears of loans' cost
Universities would subsidise the cost of processing new privatised student loans under Government proposals, it emerged this week. Loan applications already cost higher education institutions Pounds...
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Living in the fast lane
Julius Tomin ended a seven-day fast in Oxford on Monday with a bowl of chicken broth. "This was the best hunger strike of my life. Not eating for a week renewed my strength," he said. Czech dissident...
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Union split
The split between further and higher education trade unions continued to jeopardise hopes of a joint pay claim next year. In a stinging letter Association of University Teachers assistant general...
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Gene genie
Geneticists agree they have taken a risk by releasing a long genetic sequence, thought to contain a gene that can make people susceptible to breast cancer, onto the Internet. The scientists, from the...
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Dual blow to research base
The science budget is to be cut by well over Pounds 50 million in real terms in the next three years. This, combined with cuts in higher education funding generally, could seriously damage university...