The rational anthem
Criticism of rational choice theory is nothing new to Gordon Tullock, who has a joint appointment in economics and political science at the University of Arizona at Tucson. "They (the critics) have...
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Irish government to fund students studying in EU
Irish students studying in Britain and other EU countries are to get maintenance grants from the Irish government. This was announced last week in the budget which also confirmed the government's...
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Post-results entry hitch
Vice chancellors have put the brakes on plans for a post-qualifications admissions system that could have been in place by 1997. The steering group charged by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Subject lesson
(Photograph) - Subject lesson: the title of Andre Brink's novel Looking on Darkness is scratched on a cell wall below Pretoria Supreme Court. In yesterday's Amnesty lecture at Oxford's Sheldonian...
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Budget threat to space science
British research projects in particle physics and astronomy are under threat because of last week's science budget allocations to the research councils. According to officials at the Particle Physics...
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Students lobby MPs over Bill for disabled
Hundreds of students were expected to join the National Union of Students' lobby of Parliament this Thursday in protest at the Government's Disabilities Discrimination Bill. Jim Murphy, president of...
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Special needs net spreads
Facilities designed for students with special needs are having a wider impact than envisaged, a survey has found. The report, Access to Higher Education: Students with Special Needs, examines the...
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Oxford probe
The framework of the Commission of Inquiry into the future of the University of Oxford was published this week. The commission will look at governance, the future of the colleges and resources, the...
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Resurrection
(Photograph) - Resurrection: Peter Nardini, architect and senior lecturer in building design at South Bank University, displays the design of the Great Cross of Dresden's baroque Frauenkirche. The...
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Lecturer wins case
Robert Gordon University was this week ordered to reinstate senior lecturer Sheena Falconer and pay her Pounds 41,000 in back pay after failing to prove that she was truly redundant when it made her...
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Second rate
New Employment Department figures confirm the stereotype of the second-rate vocational qualification student and highlight the task facing organisations charged with introducing General National...
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Vlad all over
A serious contender for the happiest academic around this week is Robert Service - not the Canadian poet, although displaying similar expertise on frozen wastes as professor of Russian politics and...
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Visions of a healthier state of mind
Psychologists staked their claim in the consciousness debate this week when they held a press briefing at the Royal Society entitled "Consciousness: its place in contemporary science". Theirs was the...
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Dino saw
Neil Clark, curator of paleontology at Glasgow University's Hunterian museum, has a reputation as a leading commentator on dinosaur fossils and eggs. So much so that the Bearsden and Milgavie Courier...
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Short-sighted
Those wanting to know how the Association for Colleges got that way now have a simple answer - they are all visionaries. A staff training day devoted to finding the best ways of working together...