Results of research probe expected early
The results of this year's research assessment exercise should be revealed before the end of the year, rather than early next year as planned, say funding council chiefs. The 61 panels, which are...
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Big future for large shed
The University of Greenwich has announced plans to convert a disused second world war aircraft hangar into what is thought to be the country's first graduate teaching centre built using private...
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Brunel ends pain in Spain on buses
Mussolini's trains ran on time in the 1930s Italy, much to the chagrin of the Spanish. Now Brunel University is helping them rival Il Duce's achievement on an arguably more recalcitrant public...
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Double Dutch
Too late, alas, for our Howlers competition, but Strathclyde University would have been a strong contender with this offering from an environmental planning exam: "Today, Glasgow has no real function...
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Oldies fill gap baby boomers have left in college rolls
More of Japan's 500 universities are introducing continuing education programmes to raise enrolments following a sharp drop in the number of school-leaver entrants. The passing of the second "baby...
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Head banged against a Wonderwall
How I delighted in Angela McRobbie's justification of (apology for?) Oasis. Last May, six thugs smashed my car window as they chanted the chorus of "Wonderwall". When I complained, they sang "Don't...
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Nice people, when you get to know them
French anthropologist Philippe Descola tells Lucy Hodges about a lively two years spent with an isolated South American Indian tribe of wife-beaters and reformed headhunters with a penchant for...
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Scottish jobs spring
A new strategy bringing academics and industrialists together to commercialise Scottish research in science and technology could create at least another 11,000 jobs over the next ten years. This...
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Critics force quality rethink
Plans for a new single quality agency and system for higher education have been revamped in response to criticisms from the sector. Fresh proposals contained in a report to be published in early...
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Cannon blast
If you want to get ahead - get a hat. Perhaps that old slogan really is true. Tom Cannon has more hats than Ladies Day at Ascot. And, following his roles as director of Manchester Business School,...
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Fast-growing oak holds fertiliser key
A Dundee University botanist is going to Australia to study the roots of an unusual tree, after beating competition from 12 Commonwealth countries for a scholarship from the Association of Rhodes...
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Looking back from the future
Dear Ron... In the fifth of our series of open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, Patrick Coldstream, (left) takes a look at the future from a vantage point in the...
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Hi-tech's borderline
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has released the results of a study showing that in the past 15 years the disparities between rich and poor have not been reduced. In fact, they have...
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Cambridge gets set for a terminal battle
Cambridge University students are preparing to mount a major campaign to ensure the Easter term is extended by one week. But bursars of the 34 Cambridge colleges are opposed to extending the term...
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Shuffle off
John Winfield, convener of Glasgow University's safety and environmental committee, acknowledges that "shafts of wit and humour" are always welcome in the university newsletter reports of court and...