World gives mapmakers a geochemical feast
An ambitious plan to map the globe's geochemistry could help pinpoint the causes of diseases, land desecration and minerals for exploitation. The British Geological Survey is a key player in the...
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How to transmit the AIDS story
How to mount a public information exercise like the HIV and AIDS campaign with a "disappearing public" is a central theme of "Transmission '96" at Salford University later this year. The arrival of...
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Maastricht money, but no Monet
Art educators from all over Europe gathered in Birmingham last term to debate style, structure and the Maastricht Treaty. Their interest in the treaty was focussed on a principle laid down in...
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Arise Sir Graeme
Graeme Davies's service as chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England has won him the expected award of a knighthood in the New Year's honours list. Sir Richard Doll,...
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New Year Honours
Companion of Honour Sir William Richard Doll for services toepidemiology. Knighthoods David Carter, Regius professor of clinical surgery, Edinburgh University. Cyril Chantler, Children Nationwide...
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Off beat
Alumna to be proud of no. 25 is MP Emma Nicholson, recent defector from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats. Her alma mater is hard to guess from her subsequent activities, which include...
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Commons campus
Is it an unconscious expression of the University of Westminster's expansionist dreams that led it to send a Christmas card illustrated with the Houses of Parliament? Or perhaps it was intended as a...
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Bar stool
To get to King's College bar just travel to Waterloo, catch the Eurostar to Brussels and journey from there to Aachen in Germany. Brian Meek of King's College London went to Aachen, where he was so...
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Einstein a no no
The dream research team of Socrates, Einstein and Wittgenstein would spell disaster for research assessment exercise ratings, says Alistair MacFarlane, principal of Heriot-Watt University. Socrates...
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Smoked out
To ensure that people stick to their New Year resolutions, Glasgow University's geology department has stuck a notice on its wall warning: "Smoking is prohibited outside thisbuilding."
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Scottish TV talks
Scotland has taken another tentative step towards setting up its own higher education television channel, a move that will put it at the forefront in Europe. The Committee of Scottish Higher...
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Parrot fashion
Commenting on the appearance of a parrot on Have I Got News for You, a viewer suggested to the BBC's Points of View programme that a suitable follow-up would be Bill Stubbs, chief executive of the...
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Pelican brief
Oddly absent from the 1995 edition of the Corpus Christi College, Oxford magazine The Pelican Record, is any review of the memoirs of former president Sir Kenneth Dover, which caused something of a...
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Soap dished
In full view of the millions tuned in to Coronation Street on December 20, a new and crushing blow was delivered to supporters of the former polytechnics. The programme's Audrey assured the nation...
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Squirrel nuts
The festive edition of the British Medical Journal includes a paper on whether Squirrel Nutkin had Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, which causes uncontrollable gesticulations and verbal outbursts....