A bridge over muddled waters
A new way of reducing the gap between science and the public may have been aired for the first time in London last week. The UK National Consensus Conference on Plant Biotechnology (as reported in...
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Sex, drugs and student hall
Joseph Evans argues that more moral control would make university residence a home from home. If charity begins at home, then we should be thinking more about what sort of home we are offering young...
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Rustling up an Ivy League
When the officers of our Students Union came to talk to me last week I was struck, not for the first time, by the clarity of their vision and by the significance of their questions. Not for them that...
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Debt, doubt and diversity
Jim Murphy says the commission has identified the right problems but wants to talk about the answers. It was on a fanfare of publicity that the Commission for Social Justice report was launched....
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Grants
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST Research grants Richard Breen, Pounds 183,280 from the Economic and Social Research Council (social mobility, political preferences, attitudes and behaviour in Northern...
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Events
VOLTAIRE'S CONTEMPORARIES The Eldon Gallery at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is exhibiting 18th-century drawings in the lifetime of Voltaire. The exhibition, which includes work by Watteau, J-B Greuze...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF KEELE Gary Kelly, professor of English, University of Alberta, and Edward Larrissy, senior lecturer in English at Keele, have received professorships. HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY Philip...
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Fellowships
University of Bradford John Gardiner, head of the department of electrical and electronic engineering. University of Glamorgan Simon Weston, Falklands veteran, holder of Man of the Decade 1989; Hywel...
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Awards
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS T. Brooke Benjamin, Sedleian professor of natural philosophy, University of Oxford, has been named honorary member of ASME. He will receive the award at the...
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When the status quo is not an option
Where else would I get the opportunity to go to university at 37 and use that experience to change my career direction completely?" Bruce Nicol would say that, wouldn't he -- he is management...
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Blue chip partnership
The University of Nottingham makes millions of pounds from industry Colin Campbell explains. Recently it was announced that the University of Nottingham, with an annual income of Pounds 6.3 million,...
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Myriad of `other sources' fill funding breach
Since the early 1980s, when vice chancellors turned increasingly to a myriad of so-called "other sources" of income after the first Thatcher government sanctioned a 17 per cent squeeze on central...
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Under-exploited assets
As we head for the "knowledge society" of the 21st century, British universities seem only half awake, argues Sir Geoffrey Holland. The National Advisory Council on Education and Training Targets is...
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Cheque-book education
Ngaio Crequer traces the snap, crackle and pop of universities' attachment to Mammon. Universities that receive money from breakfast cereal foundations may raise eyebrows, but there is a long...
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Squabbles break out on training
Training and Enterprise Council chiefs have challenged further education college leaders to provide them with hard evidence of TECs running courses in direct competition with further education...