The shape of things to come
Eight leading thinkers ponder how the world will change in eight crucial areas over the next 50 years * MATT RIDLEY on disease Aids, mad-cow disease, the Ebola virus: it sometimes seems as if we live...
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Antithesis
Here is the news for 1998 January An over-zealous Oxford student on holiday work in the university offices confesses he accidentally shredded the North report soon after its return from the printers...
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Nurseries for leaders of integrity
I AM struck by evidence of a sudden realisation by universities that they should be doing something about the great issues of our time. Universities' contribution to development occupied the...
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Snow business
Christmas greetings to all - especially at the University of Sussex, where seasonal feebleness set in as long ago as the 17th. Vice chancellor Gordon Conway shut the place at noon because of the snow...
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Christmas fear
Glasgow Caledonian University has had a particularly eventful year, firing its principal, Stan Mason, for gross misconduct, and now awaiting a report from the National Audit Office on possible misuse...
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Fact file
* Of the 126,582 academic staff at United Kingdom institutions: * 9,097 are professors * 20,946 are senior lecturers and researchers * 51,110 are lecturers * 33,562 are researchers * 11,867 are other...
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Dream on
(Photograph) - Dream on: inmates of HMP The Verne rehearse for a A Chance to Dream, their own musical version of Hamlet. The project is being co-cordinated by Andy Baker, a music animator for the...
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Appointments
South West Arts David Brierley, former general manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company, member of several Arts Council committees and its lottery panel and chairman of the stabilisation committee,...
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Seven in race for doctors
AT LEAST seven universities are planning to take medical students to cash in on expected growth. Earlier this month the Medical Work Force Standing Advisory Committee recommended Britain train 1,000...
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Clinical academics lose research funds
CLINICAL academics were this week counting the personal cost of a Pounds 10 million cut to NHS research and development funding. A large number of hospital trusts where research is undertaken lost...
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Welcome for bill
THE SCOTLAND bill to establish a Scottish parliament, published last week, made only a passing reference to tertiary education in a curt mention of research councils. ? The bill concentrates on the...
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Internet
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, now has a new service for subscribers. A complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 is available to all subscribers to the newspaper, who...
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Lords query loan law plans
PEERS have questioned apparent contradictions between the government's proposed legislation for selling off existing student loan debt and that ushering in income-contingent loans and tuition fees....
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Liverpool University tea dance
(Photograph) - A dance to the music of time: Liverpool University student Nicola James dances with John Bird to celebrate the 20th anniversary of tea dances in the students' guildhall. The dances are...
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Scots demand grants pledge
SCOTTISH universities and colleges are demanding government assurances that the Students Awards Agency for Scotland will be able to cope with the new student support regime in the wake of this year's...