Different strokes
The latest term of abuse among US academics, according to psychologist Stuart Anstiss, is a "Monet" - "someone who looks good from a distance but a mess from close up". He told a meeting that he had...
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Bolognese mix-up
Nice to know that Scottish universities will acknowlege their organisational debt to the Italian university system - whose Bologna-style student-led model they adopted several hundred years ago in...
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True blue Labour
Always a handy source of unlikely information, the PUSH Which University guide reveals that Warwick University's famous alumni include "David Davis (Labour MP)". Odd this. He thinks he is a...
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Disqualified
We can think of lots of reasons why one might want to be critical of Brian Mawhinney, the abrasive chairman of the Conservative Party, but a recent assertion in the Daily Mail that "he insists on...
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Wave of enthusiasm
Suzanne Docherty, a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, has revealed in the student edition of the British Medical Journal that preclinical lectures can be more exciting than...
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Pictured posts
Not a bad idea of Essex University's to pull 12 months of Bulletins into an omnibus volume. But it has its down side. Given the sort of photographs that appear in university newsletters, an entire...
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DEE cuts top staff by a third
A senior management shake-up in the new Department for Education and Employment will involve cutting the number of top civil servant posts by a third, the Government announced this week. A new...
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College lecturers get new union
Breakaway college lecturers are setting up a new trade union following the failure of the Colleges Legal Fund to bring a test case to court to establish the illegality of new further education...
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Down the mine
The University of Exeter's Camborne school of mines is hoping to attract more students thanks to a Government-backed campaign aimed at addressing a shortage of mining engineers. The college has its...
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Funding deal likely for research centres
A funding deal for eight interdisciplinary research centres allied to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is close to being finalised following a meeting between centre directors...
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Direct entry hits shrinking college rolls
Colleges recruiting degree and sub-degree students are finding competition from universities particularly damaging this year, writes Alison Utley. Initial reports indicate that numbers are down in...
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One-off boost for east European studies
East European and former Soviet Union studies is to receive a long-awaited boost with the creation of 33 specially-funded specialist posts, writes Huw Richards. The Pounds 825,000 programme will be...
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Armagh books
Queen's University, Belfast, this week held the first lectures at its new campus in Armagh, where more than 100 students are to be based. There are also plans for a site in Omagh.
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Natfhe aims for local victories
Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union, is to shift all its further education resources into fighting local disputes, including those over pay, because of the stalemate in national...
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Carry on assessing . . .
While some observers are predicting that next year's research assessment exercise will be the last, the man most likely to have the Government's ear on the subject does not agree. "I would bet a...