Entente cordiale
(Photograph) - Entente cordiale: French poet and critic Jacques Roubaud (centre) relaxes after giving the inaugural Saintsbury lecture at Edinburgh University. The departments of French and English...
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Grants
CARDIFF INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. European funds. T. Dakin, Pounds 820,000 from the European Union (LINES, project using Internet to improve communications between college databases throughout...
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Fellowships
SCRE. The Scottish Council for Research in Education has awarded fellowships to the following: Ian Morris, former head of the research and intelligence unit of the Scottish Office Education...
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Events
ANTIQUITY TO ABSTRACTION. An exhibition of Lancaster University's art collection will be shown at the Peter Scott Gallery until December 1 (Monday to Friday: 12pm to 5pm; Thursday 12pm to 5pm and 6pm...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE. Janet Bainbridge, divisional leader in chemical and biotechnological sciences, professor of biotechnology and food science. UNIVERSITY OF DERBY Professorships have been...
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Appointments
SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Garth Foster, chairman for the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union, has been appointed head of the environmental sciences department at the...
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Learning power
(Photograph) - This table, compiled by The THES, lists the outcomes of the teaching quality assessment exercise carried out in English universities and colleges by the Higher Education Funding...
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Nations and Nationalism
The journal Nations and Nationalism, reviewed in The THES on October 20, has five editors not four as listed. The fifth editor is Kelvin Knight.
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A winning ticket
In a competitive age, the more informed and knowledgeable the manager, the better the decision, argue David Knights and Chris Green. In these times of limited funds from the state, many academics are...
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Praise be Ford
Ken Mortimer argues that staff development in the car company giant is a prerequisite to survival in the brave new world of technology. Twenty-five years ago Ford was known as one of the best...
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Sleep arousals checked
It may be of little comfort to sufferers of insomnia to learn that some kinds of sleeplessness are worse than others. Some restless periods in bed, which scientists call "arousals", tend to cause...
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The trek that filled a planet
Thousands of years ago human beings trekked the 2,000 kilometres across the "ice-free corridor" from Siberia through to the Americas. This last great continental colonisation has now become the...
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Coventry in race for cleaner car engine
Coventry University has teamed up with Northampton-based formula one racing giant Cosworth in a race to build the first fundamentally different car engine for a century. Cosworth, whose high...
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Chip thieves target colleges
Colleges and universities are being targeted by gangs of thieves on the lookout for scarce memory chips worth up to Pounds 800 each, writes Alison Utley. John Heap, head of computing services at...
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Campus plan staggers under damning reports
A flagship plan for a campus in West Belfast has been severely holed below the waterline by two Government-commissioned reports. The University of Ulster is now fighting a rearguard action to keep...