Remember, remember November
The current debate about the university year, provoked by the move towards modular courses and semester-based teaching, has focused on an early September start. But why is nobody taking seriously the...
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Past Masters
David Weatherall pays tribute to the man who asked him to eat asparagus in the name of research, Cyril Clarke When I obtained my medical degree from Liverpool University in 1956 I was, as cell...
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First and last
(Photograph) - First and last: the launch of Inter-Arc, an electronic media network that forms part of the Arc Atlantique project promoting tourism, maritime communications and the environment, took...
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Davies rises in Shadow shuffle
Higher education spokesman Bryan Davies has been promoted within Labour's shadow team. Mr Davies, who succeeded Jeff Rooker in the role last year, was given shadow minister status in the reshuffle...
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Channel spoil heap transformed into grassland
Ecologists have turned a four-million-tonne pile of spoil from the Channel Tunnel into a grassland which they hope will become an important conservation area. The idea, to build a big platform at the...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. A disastrous start: because of the rail dispute I missed the Heathrow British Airways morning flight to Moscow. Failure to negotiate a transfer to Aeroflot was a relief: instead made an...
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Appointments
ROSE BRUFORD COLLEGE Peter Oyston, former director of the Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne, to head school of theatre. UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Richard Hodder-Williams has succeeded Christopher...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Research grant Robert Turnbull and Kenway Smith, Pounds 2.3 million from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (the state of the universe in the first fraction of...
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Past Masters
I was the only child of working-class parents in the small moorland town of Leek, Staffs. Not surprisingly, I found Oxford in the late 1950s an alarming prospect. Everyone else seemed not only far...
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Speaking Volumes
Who is, or was K. B. Sandved? I am ashamed to say that I do not know, and doubly ashamed that, until now, it has never occurred to me to ask. Yet that name has been whispered in my memory like some...
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Chairs
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE Michael Artis (professor of economics, University of Manchester) to the joint chair in economics; Stefano Bartolini (professor, department of political science at...
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Events
IMAGES OF CONFLICT Work by recent war artists will be exhibited at the Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, from October 10 to December 13. The exhibition offers a selection of contemporary art...
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Assessment and audit in disrepute
The University of Wolverhampton has become the first higher education institution to receive a Government Charter Mark for its high quality services. Apparently Cabinet office assessors were...
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Students to fight pay-later proposals
The Labour leadership of the National Union of Students will resist proposals outlined by the party-linked Commission on Social Justice for charging students. Jim Murphy, NUS president, said there...
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Hong Kong professions fear China degrees
Members of a China-appointed advisory committee have accused the Hong Kong government of discriminating against holders of Chinese university degrees. They want Chinese qualifications to be...