Bad tidings
Colin McCallum, Strathclyde's director of external affairs and development, was in Canada over Christmas when his father-in-law rang to say: "I've got some bad news for you - your house is flooded."...
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Hacks on heat
Geographers may have to revise their old assurances that the climate of the west of Scotland is wet and warm. Last week's conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers...
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Tertiary tricks
Probing another stereotype, psychologists at the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education questioned fresh-faced undergraduates to find how they ensure they do well in their essays. Tender first years...
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Classic cliches
Psychologists explore behind those superficial stereotypes to find the fundamental . . . er . . stereotype underneath. A study of claims that, among orchestral players, brass players are beer-...
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Flamingo road
Forget the status symbol of a Jaguar car on a newly-gravelled drive. Derek Drummond, professor of architecture at McGill University in Montreal, thinks a better sign to watch for is the presence of a...
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Midwife crisis
Also in need of a new name, or rather new generic title, is Paul Lewis, academic head of midwifery and family health at Bournemouth University's Institute of Health and Community Studies. Is he...
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Bart's simplification
Crying out for a more snappy name is the new "St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital school of medicine and dentistry (at Queen Mary and Westfield College)". The college has tried to shorten...
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Wild card course packs them in
The further education centre that last year set up the country's first rock music management course has now worked out how to attract new students to further education. The answer lies very much in...
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Experts split on shift to basics
Academics who have joined forces to produce a book on Government policy options are split over calls for a reduction in higher education funding. Contributing authors to Options for Britain: A...
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Ethics reports on animal organ transplants multiply
In the rush to examine the ethics of transplanting animal organs into humans, three different top committees are to produce reports, writes Aisling Irwin. The Government this week announced the...
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Adviser attacks NVQ report for 'soft-pedalling'
A hotly-anticipated Government-sponsored report calling for a radical overhaul of the implementation of national vocational qualifications has been criticised by a leading report adviser. The adviser...
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End of the longest all-out strike
* The longest all-out strike at a further education college ended this week in a local agreement between Natfhe and Bolton college. The seven-week dispute was resolved in a last-minute agreement...
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Lecturer unions square up for new pay fight
Industrial action could sweep university and college campuses this year as funding cuts force lecturer redundancies and rule out pay rises. Lecturers' unions say they have little choice but to push...
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THESis
THESIS, the THES Internet service, has been revised for 1996 with new-look editorial pages and a searchable database for InterView, our job advertisement service, which is updated on the Tuesday...
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Telescopic sight
(Photograph) - Gavin Dalton, a lecturer, adjusts the first new telescope in Oxford University for 30 years which is about to be installed in the former university observatory.