British Library chief to leave in May 2000
Brian Lang, chief executive of the British Library this week announced his departure from the library in May 2000. Dr Lang, who took up his post in 1991, said it was always his intention to leave...
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Cambridge landlords push up the rent
Cambridge University is set to become the most expensive university outside London with planned rent rises of up to 47 per cent within five years, the university's students union claims. A recent...
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Boathouse fire hits Oxford rowers hard
Oxford University rowing is severely affected by the fire which destroyed University College boathouse earlier this week. The blaze destroyed the listed boathouse on the Thames and 40 boats belonging...
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Barns join protected sites of the world
The great Giza pyramids and the Easter Island giant heads have been joined on a list of the 100 most endangered historical sites in the world by a cluster of medieval barns owned by Wadham College,...
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Research forum responds to need
A new National Educational Research Forum has been set up in response to high-level criticism that educational research is inaccessible, insufficiently practical and too small scale. The forum comes...
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Roll up! Pay for uni by entering lucky dip
Winners of a prize draw at the University of Wolverhampton will receive Pounds 1,000 towards every year of study at Wolverhampton while two runners-up will receive Pounds 1,000 towards their first...
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Financial problems blight Scots colleges
Thirteen of Scotland's 47 further education colleges have serious financial problems, accounting for almost 70 per cent of the sector's operating deficit, according to John Sizer, chief executive of...
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Americans inspired by Tinkywinky's house
The influence of the Teletubbies has spread from some of the youngest minds to some of the sharpest, as scientists and engineers at the Fermilab, near Chicago, confess that the children's television...
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Training execs top of the list
Executive education subjects still dominate the list of subject areas in which private universities and colleges forge links with corporate partners, according to an international survey by Corporate...
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Sainsbury cash talk cheers up scientists
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Gordon Brown: 'The new economy of the next decade will need more competition, more entrepreneurship, more flexibility,...
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Blackstone pledge to raise profile of teaching
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Baroness Blackstone has promised to raise the status of teaching in universities, particularly those that are research-...
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Research funding sources
Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk THE ANATOMICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Research Studentships Applications are now invited from prospective supervisors....
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Om tiddly om pom
It was amusing to find in Kevin Jones's article on Fibonacci applications to verse and music (Research, THES, September 17) that the popular rhythmic jingle "Om tiddly om pom - pom pom" also works in...
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Demographic design
There are dangers in using geodemographic classification or social class of applicants or accepted students to analyse the success or otherwise of higher education in widening access ("New data, same...
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Get research to tie the knot
WHAT: Jennifer Currie talks to Alan Jenkins about the difficult but necessary task of marrying teaching and research. WHY: Students need to be given clear information as to why the research is taking...