A degree of foolishness
The recent case of transsexual Scottish solicitor Alexandra MacRae, who admitted to embezzling more than Pounds 16,000, left unanswered the question of how the police managed to track her down after...
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Roger and out
The Association of Colleges's decision to halt abruptly an independent inquiry into the alleged "impropriety" of AoC chief executive Roger Ward, after his hasty resignation last week, has sparked...
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Out of the loop
This week's meeting on disability held by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and the Association of University Teachers went well for all but the hearing-impaired. The meeting room at...
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Creative spelling
One wonders if the pioneer of creative writing courses in the UK, Malcolm Bradbury, is being a little creative himself. However, he swears that at one point in his misspent youth he taught a course...
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Doming down
As the wrangling begins over who should design the new Scottish parliament building, perhaps the Scottish Office should keep an eye on two lecturers in the Mackintosh School of Architecture, part of...
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Stars on the wane
Fashion is fickle. No sooner has foreign secretary Robin Cook been seen sporting the star-splattered tie celebrating Britain's presidency of the European Union than government officials have declared...
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Low modesty count
Alumnus to be proud of No 155 clearly needs more to do. Count Yves-Thibault de Silguy already has one job that many might regard as full-time: European commissioner in charge of monetary union. But...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Odd. I thought I was flying to Bombay but my ticket says "Mumbai". Appearance and reality are very different in India. The only people to call Bombay "Mumbai" are foreigners. However, working...
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Awards
The Landscape Institute. The Southeast Regional Research Laboratory in Birkbeck College, University of London's geography department, received two awards for the National Landscape Character Map of...
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Dollying up
(Photograph) - Dollying up: Fleece from the world's first cloned sheep is to be spun into yarn by Leeds University's school of textile industries and then used to make the first "cloned" woollen...
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Institutions build blind
Universities and colleges are spending billions of pounds on building projects without properly assessing whether they need them, the National Audit Office has said. Few institutions regularly...
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Lecturer kills self to avoid court date
A University of Ulster lecturer committed suicide a few days before he was due to appear in court last June on charges of possessing indecent photographs of children. An inquest in Belfast heard that...
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Overseas controls at Swansea 'very flawed'
An unknown number of blank Swansea Institute examination certificates were printed and distributed in Malaysia due to the institute's "seriously flawed" overseas control arrangements, a report...
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Academics condemn Cambridge reform plan
Cambridge University's plans to reform its procedures for promoting staff have received a battering from academics, writes Phil Baty. The plans, which include promoting about 300 lecturers to a new...
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AUT probes branch boss
Cambridge lecturer Gill Evans has accused her Association of University Teachers branch president of conducting a "campaign of personal vilification" against her. The AUT is investigating the claim....