NUS launches anti-drinking drive
An advertising campaign to stop young people drinking too much was launched this week by the National Union of Students and the charity Drinkline. Posters show students in a stupor with the words "...
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Biotechnology chief resigns
Sir Alistair Grant, chairman of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is resigning to take over as governor of the Bank of Scotland. Former chairman of Safeway, Sir Alistair...
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Digital broadcasting centre opens
AN ON-LINE centre for research into digital broadcasting and multimedia opened this week. The Virtual Centre of Excellence unites research at sites countrywide electronically pooling information and...
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Hopes of Pounds 1bn loan windfall
TREASURY officials signalled a potentially historic change to public accounting this week that could make universities a Pounds 1 billion available from student loans. Senior officials from the...
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Southampton plans to set up Costa Campus
SOUTHAMPTON is poised to become the first European university to set up a campus in another member state. It is planning to turn its Barcelona study outlets into an "institution" open to Southampton...
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Kennedy denies 'mugging' dons
MORE money for further education will probably mean less for universities, according to Helena Kennedy QC. Baroness Kennedy, author of the report into widening participation in further education,...
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Dearing complex
Helpful advice comes from the Higher Education Information Service Trust (Heist) to all university marketing heads too busy to have finished reading the Dearing report - don't bother. "The size and...
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Watchdog bytes
The newly opened University of Armageddon (THES, October 10) has already lived up to its mission statement to draw attention to the scope for howlers and errors in academic management. In that spirit...
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Exit Booth
The University of Rajasthan has turned down a request to confer an honorary doctorate on Cherie Booth to mark its golden jubilee, made by L. M. Singhvi, the Indian high commissioner in London, to B....
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Quality overlap
After months of searching for a new headquarters, the Quality Assurance Agency for higher education may soon be in search of a new name. Its title has been challenged by another QAA, Quality...
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Love email
Even Antithesis is not cruel enough to name the reader (still working on his PhD at 38) who emailed us this week with a query about our Internet service. Attached to the email was another, we hope...
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Course cul-de-sac
Cashflow management is obviously on the curriculum at Morley College, London, where an aspiring languages student applied for evening classes in German and Russian by post, giving her credit card...
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Get smart
(Photograph) - Get smart: Sarah Johnson, an undergraduate at Aston University, has to show her new 'Smart Campus Card' to gain access to the student union building. The card can be used as ID, cash...
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Noble pursuit
Alumnus to be proud of No. 141 has this week sent an RAF officer across the Nevada desert faster than he could have travelled in most aircraft. Richard Noble, an expert in extracting old aircraft...
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Police raid rights seminar
AFRICA AN UNEASY calm prevails at the University of Jos, Nigeria, in expectation of possible violent student reaction to the arrest of a number of students and civil rights activists. University...