Funds for science earmarked
The Office of Science and Technology has earmarked nearly Pounds 21 million for special initiatives in the science budget for 1996/97. Announcing guidelines for the research councils over the next...
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War of the Roses
(Photograph) - War of the Roses: Picture-hanging in the Manton Room at Lancaster University, which has won a battle with Leeds University over who exhibits the collection of late Leeds professor...
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Probation in danger
Home Office plans to remove the professional training of probation officers from universities could close university social work departments, destroy the professional credibility of the probation...
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Cornish campus hopes to kick-start local economy
Cornwall, one of the last counties without a university, is planning to open a campus by the year 2000. The Cornwall Task Force - whose members are drawn from local business, local government and...
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Prophet of doom
Prophecy of the week comes from the most recent edition of the Directory of Social Change, where, under "The Baring Foundation", can be read: "Its rate of growth is, as the chairman has noted in...
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Not Frying tonight
A fresh gloss on Stephen Fry's disappearance from his West End performance in Cell Mates. Mr Fry is rector of Dundee University, and because of changes to Cell Mates, had to cancel a show he was...
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Healthy exercise
Neat Juxtapositions no 402: Even as members of the Public Accounts Committee were expressing a certain incredulity at Neil Merritt's ability to run Portsmouth University at the same time as chairing...
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King's seal
A political straw in the wind? Essex professor of politics Anthony King, long famously sceptical about Labour's electoral chances and given to seminar papers asking "Can Labour Win?", recently...
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Boot goes in
But what was the question? The British Medical Association's news review includes a column in which Carol Cooper "clears up those thorny matters of etiquette that so often trouble GPs". The final...
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Economy at risk from cash cuts
The threat to higher education quality from underfunding imperils the entire Scottish economy, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has warned. COSHEP has made a submission to the...
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Church colleges baiting a `sectarian ideology' trap
Gordon McGregor's article on church colleges' bid to become universities (THES, October 14) is, one hopes, the nadir of recent "developments" in higher education. His answer to the question of what...
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Living language, breathing culture
Robert Jeffcoate's article (Back-to-grammar-school, THES, September 30) is an extremely unhelpful contribution to the ongoing debate about the teaching of English. Most of it is a very tedious list...
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Research adds spice to university menu
Two weeks ago (THES, October 14), we had a vice chancellor of a new university telling us that universities were about teaching and learning. Full stop. Last week, a pro vice chancellor asserts that...
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`Brokers' pocket poll winnings
After poll day came pay day for university "brokers" at German universities who speculated on the result of the country's general election on a stock exchange for voters. In the months running up to...
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German taboo breaks on fees
Student fees are back on the political agenda in Germany -- this time with more support than ever. University rectors from the states of Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria prompted the debate last week by...