Gloucester comes to rescue campus
THE three-year battle to save Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education's redundant Gloucester campus is nearly won after a cash injection from Gloucester City Council. The council hopes...
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Unions reject 5% pay rise
FURTHER industrial action is expected in higher education following the unions' unanimous rejection of the latest pay offer from employers. But the two sides are expected to agree to set up an...
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Reading on rise
The 1995/96 British Library annual report notes a record 476,762 visits to reading rooms - a 3 per cent increase on 1994/95. More than 4.38 million documents, up 6 per cent, were supplied to remote...
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Leverhulme contest
More than 360 academics from the humanities and social sciences have applied for a handful of prestigious Leverhulme personal research professorships. Between four and six posts, worth Pounds 55,000...
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Rooftop protests at Stoke
STAFF and students at Stoke-on-Trent College are demanding to know how internal and external audits failed to spot a 20 per cent shortfall in students. Governors were expected to report last night on...
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Students face tough Xmas
CHRISTMAS and New Year is a busy time for Georgina Watts. Manager of the University of Central England's student union advice centre, she says that the number of hardship cases peaks after Christmas...
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Student vote 'not decisive' on poll
The student vote is unlikely to be a decisive factor in setting next year's general election date, says a leading electoral expert. Recent reports have suggested that the Prime Minister might pick...
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Full metal jacket
(Photograph) - John Husband was so fed up with his wife demanding he bin his favourite 20 year-old jacket that he sculpted it on a course at Telford College, Edinburgh. It will stand in his hallway.
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Cannadine heads back
David Cannadine, one of the highest profile historians to have joined the brain drain to the United States, is to return to Britain in 1998. Professor Cannadine, 46, currently Moore Collegiate...
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Frozen out?
Dundee University's staff news-letter Contact normally includes a column from the principal, Ian Graham-Bryce. But when the latest issue was being produced, the principal was in Antarctica convening...
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Thanks, but no thanks
Now the dust has settled over the question of the next secretary-general of the United Nations, we can reveal one name that was not going to get very far, at least if its owner had anything to do...
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Dialectical or what?
A starred five for political incorrectness to Ottilia Saxl of the Glasgow-based technology transfer centre. A delegate at the Royal Society Of Edinburgh's seminar on commercialising academic research...
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Weighty matters
It seems the research assessment exercise can leave those visited by panel members reeling in more senses than one. Martin Dodsworth, chairman of the English literature panel, said the weight of...
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Santa clues
Nice to see the Christmas message of peace and goodwill has not yet taken over: this week's young people's lecture from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow was an illustrated talk...
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Report criticises Soton's rule of fear
A DIFFERENT style of leadership is needed at Southampton Institute to help it improve quality, extend research, and consolidate following rapid expansion, a report published by the institute says. "...