A child of our time
Julian Philips surveys the life of English composer, pacifist and nonagenarian writer of rap, Sir Michael Tippett. Earlier this year, one of Britain's most remarkable composers celebrated his...
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Amazed by muscular fleas
Aisling Irwin reports on a project that aims to capture on film the obsessive wonder of scientists for the natural world. Can you remember when, as a child, you were filled with wonder at the world?...
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'No confidence' catches on
Further education lecturers held strikes across the country this week in the contracts dispute which has contributed to 70 separate votes of no confidence in management at colleges since September....
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Medical charities want more say in decisions
The expansion of the Wellcome Trust has led to renewed calls for a forum to monitor medical research policy. The forum would enable all major funders of medical research to overcome the fragmented...
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Non-medical scientists sucked into industry
Medical research departments are failing to keep hold of non-medical scientists because of their severe lack of career structure, the committee heard, writes Aisling Irwin. Post-doctoral basic...
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M'learned friends row
University law teachers and the College of Law have clashed over professional conversion courses for non-law graduates hoping to become barristers or solicitors. The Society of Public Teachers of Law...
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Development bid
The Overseas Development Administration is expected to announce next week a shortlist of bidders for the Natural Resources Institute in Chatham Maritime, Kent. Bidders being considered include...
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Cambridge record
Cambridge University, which has three female-only colleges and mixed colleges, last year admitted a record 1,379 women undergraduates, who now constitute 44.5 per cent of the total. But despite...
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Rent-a-lecturer plan
College employers are backing the creation of a private agency that aims to run a national directory of up to 400,000 self-employed lecturers for hire. The service will enable further education...
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Countdown to 1997
(Photograph) - Countdown to 1997: Henry Tang Ying-Yen, member of the Hong Kong legislative council and adviser to the Chinese government, emphasises a point during his address to the THES-Newcastle...
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Rouge faces
Until a couple of years ago, the grandly titled Pol Roger Oxford v Cambridge Blind Wine Tasting Match used to take place at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. But no longer: according to a Pol Roger...
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Digital diet
Scottish universities and colleges are being connected by a series of information superhighway links, or Metropolitan Area Networks, known rather ungrammatically as MANs. One of these is in Fife and...
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Career tonic
Lord Butterfield, distinguished medic, member of the House of Lords science and technology committee and former vice chancellor of Nottingham and Cambridge universities, suggested a simple solution...
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Plan to scrap national pay deals
University unions have reacted angrily to proposals to scrap annual pay increments and establish a single pay structure for all staff, from porters to professors. The suggestions form part of...
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Gavin Power