Appointments
University of Sunderland David Puttnam, film maker, life peer, has been appointed chancellor of the university. Euopean Society of Human Reproduction and Embyology Lynn Fraser, professor of...
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An unbroken century of eclectic commitment
UCL established Britain's first psychology department 100 years ago, but Marya Burgess says not everything has changed since then. This week University College London celebrates the centenary of its...
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Trapped in a time warp
Not coming to terms with the freedoms of the 1960s has cost the Tories dearly, argues Richard Cockett In July 1967, an ambitious young television producer called John Birt staged one of the more...
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Consumers on the critical list
The rise of the articulate consumer could spell trouble for the medical profession, argue Simon Williams and Michael Calnan No television schedule is complete without its medical drama. Yet this...
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Land of dope and glory
The government is keen to make an impact in two vital areas of public health. Chris Johnston reports on the effectiveness of drugs legislation Much has changed in Britain since 1971, but one thing...
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Why we're Blighty glad
Happy days are here again -in fact they've never been away. Raj Persaud explains why the British are contented with their lot We are less happy now than we were in the past, despite being wealthier....
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Breaking the industrial mould
INFORMATION AND ORGANISATION: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE THEORY OF THE FIRM. By Mark Casson. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 314pp, Pounds 40.00. - ISBN 0 19 829232 5. This is an ambitious book. Mark Casson's...
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Cash call for FE growth
IAN McCALMAN, president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, has called for the proposed expansion of further education to be matched by an injection of cash. Mr McCalman, speaking this week to...
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Fellowships
National Humanities Center, North Carolina Robert Segal, reader in theory of religion at the University of Lancaster, has been awarded a fellowship. The Leverhulme Trust Fellowships have been awarded...
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Promotions
University of Durham Promoted to readerships: former senior lecturers: Gerald Brooke, chemistry; Robert Drewett, psychology; Anne Campbell, psychology; Max Paddison, music. Former lecturers: Robert...
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Chairs
University of Glasgow The following were promoted to the rank of professor on October 1. Former readers: Anna Dominiczak, medicine and therapeutics; Gwyn Gould, biochemistry and molecular biology;...
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New life of Bryan
(Photograph) - New life of Bryan: Labour's former further and higher education spokesman Bryan Davies took his seat in the House of Lords this week, becoming Lord Davies of Oldham
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Hot point
(Photograph) - Hot point: Middlesex University's traditional Chinese medicine course, the first accredited course of its kind outside China, began this term and has attracted students from all over...
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Fact file
* 60 per cent of eligible students in England took out a student loan, compared to 55 per cent the previous year * 55 per cent of eligible students in Scotland took out a student loan, compared to 49...
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Bolton faces university hurdle
BOLTON Institute is poised to become a university following approval by quality watchdogs. Members of the degree-awarding powers committee of the Quality Assurance Agency for higher education gave...