Special branch
All the president's men went a branch too far. Secret Service agents ordered the removal of an historic tree which would have obscured their view of the chief for a few seconds. But Queen's refused...
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Pounds 5m threat to food research
The Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is planning cuts of Pounds 5 million in its Pounds 121 million research budget over 1996/97, a move that is likely to lead to job cuts and threaten...
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Shady business
The university had been deluged with the president's men - issuing instructions but not guaranteeing that the president would visit the university. The first time that vice chancellor Gordon...
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Doggone
A shaggy dog story from Heriot-Watt University, one of whose students graduated in absentia, received his degree certificate by post, but lost it before he had even opened it. Several months later...
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Peter blue
The Royal Institution is old and venerable and prides itself on its old and venerable superlatives, such as the fact that its annual Christmas lectures are 166 years old this year. Director Peter Day...
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Poison pen
The wild and wacky organisation, Higher Education Managers and Liaison Officers for Community programmes, a forum in which northern universities can discuss the European Socrates initiative, delights...
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Eco logical
One question of symbolism that semiologist Umberto Eco has failed to unveil until now is his own surname. Theorists have claimed it is Jewish, Sardinian and Albanian, among others. But now Eco has...
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Cold front
Stirling University students have delayed the election of their student president until February following the failure of Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson to accept their invitation to stand. No doubt...
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Ladies' day
The governing bodies of the regional technical colleges in Ireland have been exhorted by Irish education minister Niamh Bhreathnach to ensure they are "gender balanced". This they have achieved, but...
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Crystal clear
Could Alumna To Be Proud of No:22 ever have predicted that she would end up as Mystic Meg, fortune teller of National Lottery fame? Leeds University has proudly revealed that Mystic Meg is none other...
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Oxford Brookes wins libel appeal
A law lecturer who won Pounds 60,000 in libel damages after claiming he was the victim of a "dirty tricks campaign" by Oxford Brookes University managers has been ordered by the High Court to pay...
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Cancer kills more women
Deaths from lung cancer among women in Northern Ireland have risen by 75 per cent over the past 15 years, according to researchers at Queen's University, Belfast. Their report, showing that cancer...
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Cross-border trade for Irish students grows
The capping of higher education places in Northern Ireland to save money has backfired as students denied places at local colleges have simply gone to Britain or the Republic of Ireland. Instead of...
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An excellent lesson in English self-appraisal
There is "widespread scepticism" in English departments about whether the benefits of teaching assessment by the funding council outweigh the costs, according to a report from the Council for College...
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Serenading a statue
Serenading a statue: Andrew Darlison, flute, and Jonathon Hayward, guitar, both music students at Dartington College play "The Happy Hour" at The Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, as part of their...