A final bid to keep Karl Popper's library in the country is being made by a group of friends and admirers headed by one of his former students at the London School of Economics. Last weekend, Sotheby...
It has not taken long for campus wags at Swansea to react to German lecturer Jim Hawes selling his first novel for sums that a privatised industry chief might regard with respect. The joke going the...
VE day isn't the only big anniversary this year - 1995 also marks the centenary of the invention of the X-ray and proof that even the greatest scientists get it wrong sometimes. Lord Kelvin's...
Delegates at the Educational Institute of Scotland's College Lecturers' Association were bemused when in the middle of one debate, president Elinor McKenzie remarked that it reminded her of the...
Congratulations to political scientist Ivor Crewe for moving one step closer to the top of academia's own greasy pole with his appointment as acting vice chancellor of the University of Essex. Maybe...
Bill Styles, council chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, reveals in the latest British Medical Association News Review that while he was a student at St Mary's Hospital Medical...
Librarians at St Andrews University have come up with a hot scheme. Students donating their old textbooks to the library are presented with a voucher which can be put towards the cost of a meal at...
Further education institutions should concentrate on complementing higher education provision rather than developing freestanding higher education capacity of their own, say vice chancellors. The...
The Open University is taking on 33 new staff in one of its largest recruitment drives since it was set up just over 25 years ago. The jobs are aimed at helping the university harness new...
The University of Humberside has replaced Nottingham Trent University in the project to establish a University of Lincolnshire. The plan is to admit the first 500 students in autumn 1996....
Further work on a controversial research programme aimed at developing a genetically engineered chemical insecticide is being planned for this summer by the Natural Environment Research Council. The...
The first postgraduate degree in holocaust studies will be run next academic year by the department of Hebrew and Jewish studies at University College, London. Students will explore the holocaust in...
Lord Briggs, former vice chancellor of Sussex University and historian of the BBC, is one of 13 media academics and practitioners elected to residential fellowships for the academic year 1995/96 by...
Ron Johnston, who is to retire as vice chancellor of Essex University at the end of the academic year, has been appointed professor of geography at Bristol University. Ivor Crewe, professor of...
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