Unhappy birthday
And what did you do on your birthday? It would take someone with an extreme grievance against economic historians not to feel some sympathy for Roderick Floud, vice chancellor of London Guildhall...
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The English disease
The European Commission's ambition to harmonise qualifications throughout member states should begin with taxi drivers, undoubtedly the most homogeneous professional group to be found. A delegate to...
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Verbosity vaccine
Antithesis loves to hear about a new discipline, and is especially taken with a suggestion last week by John Grange of Imperial College, London, who is investigating the finer details of our immune...
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It's SIMple
A new company called Apocalypse Software seems anxious to break into the HE market. "After SIM City and SIM Earth," says its leaflet, "comes SIM University. Make your little extramural class on...
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NUS elects Blairite chief
NUS president elect Douglas Trainer has his sights fixed firmly on a new future where students contribute to their education and where negotiation rather than confrontation is the norm. Mr Trainer's...
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Welsh fearful at prospect of levy
Worries over funding are making higher education heads in Wales nervous over the prospect of introducing an entrance levy. Many believe that Welsh institutions would suffer serious recruitment...
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Stay-at-home culture spreads among students
More and more university applicants are opting for institutions in their home region, according to the latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Almost half of successful...
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Troubled times
An everyday field trip it was not. The trip involved the Four Green Fields of Ireland for a start. And as a fact-finding visit, it differed also - for in Ireland there are very few agreed facts...
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Immune system booster holds key
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. Scientists hope that they may have found a new treatment for tuberculosis based not on drugs but on...
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Britain fiddles as disease spreads
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. The United Kingdom urgently needs a TB action plan - yet a government working group has not reported 20...
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Modern classical recitals off key
Classical music performances may never be the same again, or even the same twice, following findings at a unique research centre at Southampton University. Research at the Centre for the History and...
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Scientists aid hospital staff in information deluge
Addicts of television hospital dramas will be familiar with the plethora of bewildering data flashing up on screens in intensive care units. Unfortunately, the information can be equally bewildering...
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Tubercular alarm bells
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. The growing scourge of tuberculosis, could be eliminated worldwide if doctors and governments were to act...
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Death-defying art comes to light
A new exhibition at an Amsterdam avant-garde art institution is confirming Holland's reputation for being in the forefront of the debate about death. But, far from dealing with euthanasia, the...
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Kicking sand at Uncle Sam
The British Council is bidding to help UK universities challenge their American rivals' success inenrolling students from the Gulf. David Jobbins reports from Dubai Five years after the coalition...