Research drain damages economy
Steps have to be taken to stem the exodus of industrial research in the wake of huge foreign investment, according to officials from German industry and higher education. Hans-Olaf Henkel, the...
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Papua murder fuels crisis
The murder of two academics and two students in separate incidents at the University of Papua New Guinea over the past year has created a sense of crisis as students return to their studies for the...
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Election dilemma for Australian academics
The decision by Australian prime minister Paul Keating to call an election on March 2 has created a painful dilemma for the nation's 80,000 academics and general staff, writes Geoff Maslen. They were...
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California regents' row may be copied
University of California president Richard Atkinson last month pushed the issue of affirmative action to the brink of open warfare with his own board of regents. A highly public squabble over his...
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NZ polys safeguard status of degrees
New Zealand polytechnics are planning to set up their own national university to ensure the status of their degrees. The Association of Polytechnics is proposing a university specifically to award...
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Blood test can detect mania
Until recently a doctor faced with a new psychiatric patient would have found it impossible to distinguish between the clinical symptoms of schizophrenia and manic depression and would have had to...
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Hypnosis finds safe haven in Sheffield
The power of hypnosis to send people into trancelike states has not attracted enough serious research, according to Michael Heap of Sheffield University's centre for psychotherapeutic studies. Dr...
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Robots rise from seabed
Seabed robots are enhancing Aberdeen University's reputation as a leader in marine research. Aberdeen has opened a Pounds 1.4 million deep ocean research laboratory, part of a Pounds 2.6 million...
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Pay watch for vice chancellors
This table is derived from annual reports for 1994/95, the first year in which university sector institutions were required to disclose top salaries - although a considerable number did so...
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Call for standards in languages
An expert in foreign language teaching has called for national standards in student achievement following evidence that graduates' linguistic abilities vary enormously. Jim Coleman, professor of...
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Name in lights
(Photograph) - Name in lights: Margaret Harker, photography educationist and historian, was at the opening last week of a photography centre named after her on Westminster University's Harrow campus...
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Browned off
Alumnus to be proud of No 30 is Cedric Brown, the British Gas man and life- imitates-art incarnation of Harry Enfield's most famous concept, who received awesome amounts of cash this week in return...
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Taste for power
Tony Keenan, professor of organisational behaviour at Heriot-Watt University, has been explaining how you check for Type A personalities, one of the predictors of future career success among...
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Do Ron Ron
The Scottish Agricultural College is noted for pepping up its press releases with eye-catching headlines. But it remains to be seen how Ron Speirs, head of the college's analytical services, and...
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Past haunts
The Identikit v-c being a chap in his 50s who has rosy memories of his own student days during the radically-minded 1960s, there was not quite the angered response to the student demonstrators who...