Turbines turn on British white heat of technology
Materials scientists in Cambridge and Wales are designing high-performance materials that could give British aeroengine makers the edge over competitors abroad. Project leader Colin Humphreys of...
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Survey eyes PhD career paths
The European University Institute in Florence is to coordinate a survey of postgraduate students' employment after they finish their studies. The initiative follows a conference of 80 academics,...
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Animal rights and wrongs
While I would agree with the general thrust of Roger Scruton's article that assigning rights to animals is a nonsense, I cannot agree with the acceptance of human rights that he uses as the basis for...
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Out of this world
In the second of our series on favourite films, Ian Christie describes how he overcame critical prejudice against Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death I've come to realise that my...
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Cabinet post
(Photograph) - Cabinet post: Palestinian human rights campaigner Hanan Ashrawi has been confirmed as higher education minister in Yasser Arafat's first cabinet by the Palestinian legislative council.
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Touch of glass
Touch of glass: Hundreds of children conceived at Bristol University IVF Unit attended a tea party at Ashton Court Mansion to celebrate Focus on Fertility week last month. Some 750 babies have been...
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Portsmouth's model bid
A new report recommends radical changes in the governance of Portsmouth University following the turmoil caused by vice chancellor Neil Merritt's resignation two years ago. It may provide a model for...
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Dreadwood
This week's award for spreading alarm and despondency goes to the public relations office of the University of Wales, Cardiff which has issued a press release under the horrifying headline "Redwood...
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Inns and outs of barristers forced to eat their way to work
Universities and colleges planning to run training courses for would-be barristers will be bound by the age-old traditions of the London inns of court, it has emerged. Institutions bidding to offer...
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Microgravity in cash downslide
British scientists flying an experiment on the United States space shuttle Columbia say that their nascent subject, microgravity research, could die a quick death when the shuttle lands today. Their...
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How Latin can be music to the ears
Long-suffering students at the University of Munster in Germany once named a campaign against compulsory Latin exams for many degree subjects "Latinum in Latrinam!" Lecturer, Karl-Heinz von...
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Blossoms nipped in the bud
Stopping new universities doing legitimate university work is wrong Few universities in the United Kingdom are older than 200 years and only two of these are English. When England was industrialising...
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Entry plans split system
Radical proposals to transform the student admissions procedure could reduce some universities to little more than clearing institutions mopping up candidates who fail to secure places on sought-...
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Dear Don
Hardly surprising that the vice chancellors' email network is strictly private - like all of us they need somewhere to let off steam to other people who will understand. But is a commercial...
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Marine funding figures all at sea
The Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council has disputed claims that Scottish biology students face discrimination because it has cut funds to a national marine biological station. Both SHEFC and...