Binary divisions rear their head
THES reporters examine the fall-out from the research assessment exercise now that funding weightings are known NEW universities are moving up research ratings faster than their older counterparts...
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Retirements go ahead
LECTURING and teaching unions have welcomed a Government "climbdown" over attempts to block early retirements prior to the controversial reform of the Teachers Superannuation Scheme. The Association...
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Open to question
Better news for mature students, following Birkbeck's unhappy efforts in University Challenge. The Open University this week hammered Swansea by 395 points to 85. The same people who felt that...
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Coming to blows
And more evidence that something is wrong with young people today? A feature in Edinburgh University's student newspaper claims: "Most of us who have tried the sad, sordid sex of a one night stand...
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Waddle away from this
This week's award for fast-reacting opportunism goes jointly to Bradford City footballer Chris Waddle, whose instant reaction to seeing Everton's goalkeeper off his line in Saturday's FA Cup tie was...
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Peeling power
(Photograph) - Peeling power: catering student Mandy Cooke demonstrates a spud's uses at Sheffield Hallam University Potato Revival festival
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Lois lost for ever
A Napier University spokeswoman has dismissed reports that the popularity of a Web site for Teri Hatcher, who plays Lois Lane in The New Adventures of Superman, left by an information systems...
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Witty ditty
The upgrading of Waterford's technical college has inspired Irish jokers to recall the legendary Grimsby project provisionally titled the South Humberside Institute of Technology until acronymic...
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Big buck
Glasgow University's staff newsletter has been enthusing about the Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition, to which it is the largest single lender, which has been wowing them in New York after drawing...
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Cock-eyed
It is always reassuring when an advert can prove that the people selling a service have a first-hand knowledge of it. So hearty congratulations to Oxford Brookes University for the publicity for its...
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Ear to the ground
And the Universtiy of Oxford also deserves a pat on the back for omitting nothing in its painstaking construction of a How not to get Planning Permission case-study for its new business school. The...
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Cut and thrust
Alumnus to be proud of No 87 is that great patron of the shipbuilding industry Michael Portillo, whose recognition of the job and trade-creating possibilities of state expenditure came in the same...
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NUS takes a neutral stand
THERE WILL be no 1997 equivalent of the National Union of Students controversial Target 70 campaign, focused on marginal seats at 1992's general election. Accused then of partisanship by the...
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Troubled Trent builds bridge for aid
A TROUBLED further education college has reached out to other local institutions for help. Kevin Farrell, chairman of governors at Stoke-on-Trent College, has requested a meeting next month with...
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Tax dodge robs students of vote
STUDENTS may be robbing themselves of the chance to vote in a misguided attempt to avoid paying council tax. Although students are exempt from paying the tax, a conflict arises for those who share a...