Fears grow over rush to publish
Huw Richards, in the third part of our series on the Research Assessment Exercise, examines book production. A deluge of new books is likely in the first quarter of 1996 as publishers respond to the...
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College challenges tribunal verdict
Northumberland College decided this week to appeal against an industrial tribunal which awarded one of its lecturers Pounds 30,000 damages after he was called an "Irish prat" by a colleague....
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Chips down for old Soviet-bloc clerics
Cutbacks in spending by the Church of England could endanger a scholarship scheme for clerics and theological students from the former Communist bloc, according to Canon Michael Bordeaux. He raised...
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Hedgehogs
(Photograph) - Road hog: of 12 hedgehogs released and radio-tracked in the wild, one died in a motoring accident, one was eaten by badgers, one died of a fatal snout injury and another of pneumonia....
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu
(Photograph) - Debut for Disco Des: former King's College London theology student, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, gazes with amusement at a three-times larger than life sculpture of himself, which is to...
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Assessed live up to their own expectations
The first results from the English funding council's teaching assessment round using its new methodology reveal a strong preference for marking departments at the upper end of the new point scale....
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Nurses enter the campus mainstream
Two traditional universities, four new universities and a further education college have won contracts to offer nursing and midwifery courses in Scotland. Preregistration courses are currently taught...
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In hot pursuit of cold stars
The mysterious, middle stages of star formation, which are shrouded from the astronomer because they happen inside a huge dust cloud, will be revealed by the European Space Agency's Infrared Space...
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Minerva's owl . . .
Glasgow University has just unveiled a new Pounds 500,000 library computer system that will increasingly allow direct electronic access to reference sources and research reports rather than citations...
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Northern exposure
Alumna to be proud of no 16 is our very own Alison Utley, listed in the Push Guide to Which University 96 as one of two famous Salford alumni (the other being much-capped Welsh rugby player Ieuan...
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Trying partner
Junior partners in academic takeovers tend to lose their distinctive identity, but the rugby team at West London Institute of Higher Education - now adhered to Brunel University as Brunel University...
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The missed of time
Dundee University's department of modern history this week launched the new Tayside and Fife Historical Research Institute. Chris Whatley, head of Dundee's department of modern history, explained...
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Put out to copy
Are there no limits to the compassion of the Natural Death Centre? Launched in 1991, it helps those who look after someone dying at home. And it organises "cheap, green and DIY funerals". Its concern...
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Pincer moves
Is Glasgow University attempting a flanking manoeuvre on Government funding? New principal Graeme Davies presumably knows, as former chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Right plight
Anyone for a cull of right-wing thinkers? Himself no socialist, Gray suggested at the conference that there is now an unfeasible surplus of believers in unfettered free market forces, while believers...