Appointments
The British Library David Inglis, former managing director of Chapman and Hall, has been appointed director of the digital library development project. University of Central Lancashire Ian Shaw,...
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Girl power
(Photograph) - Hackney Community College was one of 23 higher and further education institutions to receive gold medals from the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace...
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Chairs
University of Edinburgh Gordon Murrary, former reader in medical statistics at the Medical School in Glasgow and founding director of the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, professor of medical...
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Grants
Queen's University, Belfast Research contracts Professor F. Keenan, CAST-UKEA (analysis of U-V data from laboratory plasmas); Dr G. McNally, Pounds 198,256 from IRT Unit of Department of Economic...
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Honorary degrees
Queen's University, Belfast Desmond Greer, professor of common law, has been made an honorary Queen's Counsel in recognition of his services to legal education, law reform and the legal system in...
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Inaugural Lectures
Middlesex University Kelvin Chan, visiting professor of biomedical sciences, will give his inaugural lecture "Bridging the East/West Gap through Chinese Medicine" at the university's faculty of...
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Over here, overworked, overlooked
The West devotes vast amounts of money and effort to keeping immigrants out. Sheer stupidity, argues Nigel Harris, because this developed and ageing world depends on an influx of energetic young...
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She who sups with the media...
Margaret O'Brien (left), whose research the BBC used to argue that the children of working mothers suffered educationally, advises academics to be wary when dealing with the media. Last week, to my...
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When a kindness becomes a betrayal
Orthodox Jews have pleaded with Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks not to attend a memorial service for the liberal rabbi Hugo Gryn. Most non-Jews are mystified if not appalled at such an apparent lack of...
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Return of the old school ties
More young people than ever before are going on to university amid accusations that schools are failing to supply students of the required calibre. Has academe lost touch with what is being taught in...
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Notts prods 'poor' staff to early exit
All academic staff at Nottingham University have been asked to produce a two-year research plan to determine whether they would be better off sticking to teaching. The university meanwhile intends to...
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Engineer's epistles
An important collection of long-lost papers and drawings by Isambard Kingdom Brunel were unveiled by Bristol University this week. The university paid around Pounds 100,000 at Christie's for the...
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Forsyth saves archive
Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth has vetoed a decision to close a major part of the Scottish Record Office after academics warned that research would be hit by the closure of West Register House.
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Welsh RAE losers
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has decided departments in Welsh institutions awarded a rating of 1 or 2 in the latest research assessment exercise will receive no RAE-based funding.
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Anti-corruption move
New measures to curb corruption in publicly funded institutions such as universities were expected to be announced this week. Roger Freeman, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was due to announce...