Otters tracked from droppings
Otter droppings and grouse feathers will allow scientists to help Scottish wildlife conservationists. An ecological molecular genetics laboratory opened this week at Aberdeen University, bringing...
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V-cs transfixed by the other national lottery
Huw Richards, in the first of a four-part series, evaluates the impact of the Research Assessment Exercise for 1996. The Research Assessment Exercise enters its fourth incarnation next year amid...
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PM stakes
On his best orotund form in giving his talk at the Institute of Historical Research, Lord Jenkins found time to comment on other political figures as well as Gladstone. Focusing on his successor Lord...
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Speeding at 74
If biographers leave their imprint on their subjects, the converse is equally true. Shortly after telling a seminar about Gladstone's formidable, long-lived energy the 74-year-old Lord Jenkins was...
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Academic drift
At last a use for all the material that never made it into the research assessment exercise? This week the Friends of Dundee University's botanic garden organised a lecture by "alternative" floral...
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Brushes with Basil
(Photograph) - Brushes with Basil: controversial sociologist Basil Bernstein received two Festschrifts, collections of essays on the influence of his ideas at a celebration at the University of Wales...
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LSE strip teaser
Alumni to be proud of no 14: Robert Watters, proprietor of Rick's, the Houston, Texas strip-bar whose past patrons have included O. J. Simpson, Sting and President Bush's 1992 Republican convention...
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Fit for a hero, like?
Maxwell Irvine, principal of Aberdeen University, may be moving to a larger institution when he becomes vice chancellor of Birmingham University next year, but will he be such a celebrated local...
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Tory president fights vote of no confidence
A Conservative student union president is taking legal action against her union for unfair dismissal after she lost a motion of no confidence two weeks into her term of office. The motion accused...
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Rural white paper gets thumbs-up
Howard Newby, vice chancellor of Southampton University and a member of the Rural Development Commission, has welcomed the Government White Paper on rural England, published this week, as a "step in...
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Union call for openness
Staff at Portsmouth University will be asked to pass a vote of no confidence in the chair of governors at a meeting next week. The decision follows outrage expressed at the restricted publication of...
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Launch of plan to learn for life
The Government is preparing to publish an important consultation paper on "lifetime learning", Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, announced this week. The document,...
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Tooterling on
A warm welcome to The TooTer, a Gateshead College Natfhe journal devoted to "reporting all that is wrong with the state of contractual arrangements within FE colleges at the present time". Given this...
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Date with Julian
Those readers who gave birth ten days ago may have missed the fact that their offspring were not only born on 10/10/1995 but also on Julian Date 2450000. If you were born years too early to achieve...
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Leeds college overspent Pounds 1m
Thomas Danby College in Leeds this week became the latest victim of charges of "inadequate" financial controls. The further education college has just discovered a budget overspend "well in excess of...