Female fillip for male bastion
The traditionally male-dominated discipline of economics is set to attack its gender gap with the creation of a new Royal Economic Society committee. The RES executive, which meets next Thursday,...
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Job value scheme takes off
A consortium of more than 100 universities and colleges has signed a contract with management consultants to develop a unique job evaluation system. The system is intended to form a new basis for...
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Queen's park scrapped
Queen's University's innovative Pounds 29 million plan for a research and enterprise park at the historic former Belfast gasworks has collapsed, writes Noel Mcadam. The hi-tech proposal had formed a...
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Week of pleasure in learning
Colleges, Government departments, the media and private enterprise are to throw their weight behind Adult Learners Week in order to drive continuing education to the top of the national agenda. This...
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Fending for future
After HEFCE's first annual meeting Brian Fender talked to Tony Tysome about planning a funding system responsive to society's needs. Sir Ron Dearing has until summer 1997 to chart a future course for...
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If I were a carpenter . . .
A carpentry and joinery foundation course for women has been chosen as an Adult Learners Week award winner jointly by the European Union Social Fund and the National Institute of Adult and Continuing...
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Pounds asks MPs for Pounds 60m
Ken Pounds, chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, has called for a Pounds 60 million fund to help it meet its financial obligations to Cern, the particle physics...
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Keyboards' end is just moves away
Keyboards could become an optional extra if City University research produces a computer that can interpret the slightest hand movement. The team includes experts in mime and computer science who...
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Hunt for concrete solution
A technique that reveals the progress of disease in humans, animals and plants could help stop premature corrosion in concrete. Chlorides in water are highly corrosive and cause devastating damage to...
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Secret joyriders reveal all
A thousand volunteers in Plymouth are being asked whether they shoplift or joyride as part of a study into lifestyles. Plymouth University's health-related quality of life research centre has won...
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Mummies go to the doctor
Egyptology, once seen as an arts subject, has turned to science to unlock the mysteries of mummies. Most academic departments still teach Egyptology as a history or language option. But Manchester...
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Pay talks deadlock leads to strike date
Academics across Australia will hold a week of industrial action from May , including a nationwide 24-hour strike, in support of a 15 per cent pay claim. The sanctions threaten to disrupt...
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Students snub brainstorming
South Africa's National Commission on Higher Education has unveiled to the rest of the world its recently released discussion document on the future of universities. More than 30 international...
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Olympics sweet for Georgia
The opening ceremony of the summer Olympic Games may still be months away, but universities and colleges in the Atlanta area are already big winners. Eight campuses are sharing more than $320 million...
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Lecturers enter moonlight zone
Lecturers at Makerere University in Uganda are running small restaurants in the capital city Kampala to supplement their income. Colleagues, equally hard hit by the falling value of their salaries,...