Einstein a no no
The dream research team of Socrates, Einstein and Wittgenstein would spell disaster for research assessment exercise ratings, says Alistair MacFarlane, principal of Heriot-Watt University. Socrates...
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Smoked out
To ensure that people stick to their New Year resolutions, Glasgow University's geology department has stuck a notice on its wall warning: "Smoking is prohibited outside thisbuilding."
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Scottish TV talks
Scotland has taken another tentative step towards setting up its own higher education television channel, a move that will put it at the forefront in Europe. The Committee of Scottish Higher...
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Parrot fashion
Commenting on the appearance of a parrot on Have I Got News for You, a viewer suggested to the BBC's Points of View programme that a suitable follow-up would be Bill Stubbs, chief executive of the...
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Pelican brief
Oddly absent from the 1995 edition of the Corpus Christi College, Oxford magazine The Pelican Record, is any review of the memoirs of former president Sir Kenneth Dover, which caused something of a...
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Soap dished
In full view of the millions tuned in to Coronation Street on December 20, a new and crushing blow was delivered to supporters of the former polytechnics. The programme's Audrey assured the nation...
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Squirrel nuts
The festive edition of the British Medical Journal includes a paper on whether Squirrel Nutkin had Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, which causes uncontrollable gesticulations and verbal outbursts....
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Sounds precocious
Already the 1996 competition to get the longest word into the title of a research paper has been won, by Deborah Dixon of East Carolina University and John Paul Jones III of the University of...
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Region gets cash uplift
Scottish higher education institutions have won a Pounds 4 million incentive to work together more closely. The Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council aims to encourage collaboration through its...
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Cancer help on Internet
Former Teesside University student Joanne Rafferty, who achieved a first-class degree last summer after beating off a rare cancer, hopes to set up a network to help other students with the disease....
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Murphy's law rediscovered
An English professor has unearthed the manuscripts of the 18th-century creator of modern copyright law just as Britain was brought into line with France and Germany through a European Union directive...
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Degree skirmish leads to ballot
Plans for a new Cambridge degree in education studies will be put to a rare vote of all 3,000 dons after protests from a small band of mathematicians and scientists. The degree, which will be mainly...
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Admission chiefs slam 'inaccurate statistics'
University admissions chiefs have condemned reports of an 8 per cent drop in the number of applicants for places as "totally inaccurate" and "misleading". Figures published today by the Universities...
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Face to face
(Photograph) - Face to face:Sir Peter Ustinov eyes up the new bronze bust of himself sculpted by the Reverend Toddy Hoare which will be on display at Durham University, where he is chancellor.
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Experience key in job race
Academic high fliers are being bustled to one side by graduates with work experience in the rush for well-paid jobs, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters. A new survey of 4 leading...