Chemistry society joins lab buyers' consortium
The Royal Society of Chemistry is a major partner in a consortium chosen by the Department of Trade and Industry as the preferred buyer for the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. Tom Inch,...
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Bosnia brain-drain appeal
British academics are to be asked to give money to help halt Bosnia's brain-drain. The appeal is the latest initiative of Academic Lifeline for Bosnia, set up by the World University Service, the two...
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Space cake
Here's hoping the British space budget stretches to financing proper fruit cakes with lots of alcohol in them rather than mean sponge cakes in rusty tins. Otherwise the cake baked to celebrate the...
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Lip service
(Photograph) - Lip service: City University dressed its students up as ears, lips and brains in this year's Lord Mayor's Show to celebrate the incorporation of St Bartholomew School of Nursing and...
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Quality codes launched
Concern over the quality of the student experience on offer in United Kingdom higher education institutions, and in overseas institutions with collaborative arrangements with the UK, has prompted two...
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Report rubbishes training schemes
Government training schemes, favoured by all political parties as a "motherhood and apple pie" solution to unemployment, are misguided and an "expensive way of doing very little" according to a...
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Bloody students
Alumni to be proud of no 19: General Sani Abacha, military dictator of Nigeria, possibly acquired his dedication to free speech, due process and humane government during training at the Cadet...
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Keeping you posted
It seems unlikely that Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals staff will learn much from this month's university newspaper cuttings selection, circulated internally, consisting largely of...
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Pint-size offer
Is this the thin edge of the wedge, sticking out from the columns of The Journalist, organ of the National Union of Journalists? Birkbeck College has invited journalists to come and talk to students...
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Governing bodies on road to 'Nolanness'
The governing bodies of further and higher education institutions need to be broader and more open, but there is little need for more outside scrutiny of their activities, the Nolan Committee on...
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Head start
Quick off the mark with their publicity blitz are the Sicilian hosts of the 1997 World Student Games. With the 1995 games only weeks gone, their posters are already decorating London railway stations...
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Language barrier
Antithesis never tries to perpetuate rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge universities, but Pakistan's foreign minister is not so reticent. According to Oxford Today, he was asked while being...
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Cut down
Anyone who thought it a random shot when this week's episode of BBC political drama Final Cut featured a foreign secretary humiliated into resignation by the offer of a move to Education should think...
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Playing away
Left twiddling their fingers when they'd been hoping for a decent game of rugby last week were Cambridge University's oddly named second string, the Sixty Club. Irritation is the normal attitude...
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Eastern premise
At least Tony Rice is apologetic about his acronym. And who could claim they would devise a better one, faced with the project title: High Resolution Temporal and Spatial Study of the Benthic Biology...