Good neighbour
A former neighbour of a medical researcher at Dundee University, has unexpectedly bequeathed Pounds 350,000 to boost the university's Medical Research Council unit work on cancer and nervous diseases...
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Teacher sums
The Scottish Office has cut intakes to secondary teacher education courses by almost 200 to 1,210 in the coming session, and slightly boosted primary intakes by 50 to 1,050. Some new teachers are...
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Ropa lassoes research councils to cause
Science minister David Hunt has announced the expansion of a Government scheme encouraging collaboration between industry and researchers. The Realising Our Potential Award, known as Ropa, launched...
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College appeals in race case
Kingsway College, a further education college in central London found guilty of racial discrimination at an industrial tribunal last November, is to appeal. Farhad Shahrokni, a maths and computer...
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Drugs and crime link
A clear link exists between persistent criminal behaviour by young offenders and high levels of drug use, according to Mike Collison of Keele University's department of criminology. But it is not the...
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Tax gives food for thought
Food studies lecturer Stella Walsh is to monitor the diet and lifestyles of a group of pensioners in Leeds to discover what impact the introduction of VAT on fuel bills is having on their quality of...
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Business of false budgets
Double-entry book-keeping has a special meaning at Copenhagen's School of Economics and Business Administration. The school has knowingly presented false budgets to the ministry of education to...
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Credit linked grants rejected
German student groups have called on the newly elected Federal Parliament to address a "long overdue increase in student grants as quickly as possible". Suggestions that students could be taken off...
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Namibia budget boost
Vice chancellor Peter Katjavivi hopes an increased budget will end the still rumbling dispute at the University of Namibia which led to a student march to the home of President Sam Nujoma last May....
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School for homeless attracts top brains
Academics, homeless people and grassroots militants are holding the inaugural session of a "University against Exclusion" this weekend in premises taken over by a Parisian homeless action group last...
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Mission impossible begs big answers
Survival is not guaranteed in the college sector any more. There are known to have been at-risk lists in higher education for well over a decade. Indeed last week the Public Accounts Committee was...
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Small is perfect for expertise
Should research funding be confined to a few large universities? A number of vice chancellors believe so. Derek Roberts, the provost of University College, says that the number of designated research...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
It was characteristically generous of Peter Knight (THES, January 13) to acknowledge, as we have been reassuring him for three years, that the Higher Education Funding Council for England's funding...
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Beauty and beast
(Photograph) - Beauty and beast: Aberdeen University is to create a database of mediaeval images from the Aberdeen Bestiary, an illuminated manuscript dating from around 1200, supported by a Pounds...
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Me old, old china
The sort of academic who forces us to question our very origins has struck again, this time at the root of the North Staffordshire pottery industry. Rodney Hampson, research fellow at Keele...