Cheltenham debut
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education launched a new centre of policy and health research yesterday. Helping people cope with motor neurone disease will be one of its main areas of...
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Safe sex for closet readers
The quality of the writing on the back of lavatory doors in Scottish seats of learning is about to improve dramatically. Posters bearing arresting extracts from contemporary fiction, including The...
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Survey dispels ageing staff fears
Fears of a demographic crisis in English universities have been dispelled by a staff survey released this week. The figures contained in the report from the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Dublin calls the tune
A major shake-up in the running of Irish universities is planned by education minister Niamh Bhreathnach, who intends to introduce legislation to make them more accountable. New governing bodies will...
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Overlap concern
Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education, has launched a research project to compare the costs of education for 16 to 19-year-olds in secondary schools and further education colleges...
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Councils probed
The House of Commons science and technology committee is launching an inquiry into the research councils. The probe will look at the restructuring of the councils following the 1993 science white...
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NUS quizzes members on student funding
The National Union of Students is launching what it describes as its most widespread and in-depth research initiative, to sound student views on the funding of education in time for its annual...
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Wanted: local heroes
The latest academic research has thrown up a a new link between those much debated phenomena; screen violence and rising crime rates. According to researchers at the London School of Economics the...
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Marks upgrade for 4,000
A new university raised the marks of over 4,000 of its students by 6 per cent because of the disruption caused by building work on one of its campuses. The move by the University of Westminster,...
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Stroppy charity gets lottery cash
The medical research charity that made the loudest fuss about National Lottery charity funding policy is the only one so far to have won a grant from its charities board. The Cancer Research Campaign...
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Number of lab animals grows
The long decline in the number of animal experiments may have stopped, reflecting the rise in the breeding and testing of animals bred with harmful genetic defects and transgenic animals, writes...
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Red letters
(Photograph) - Red letters: The main gateway of the new British Library, London, has emerged from its hoardings, displaying the lettering of David Kindersley, who died this year having been one of...
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Bank on UMIST
The leading professional banking qualification is to be given Manchester University degree status in a move which could lead to the decline of rival banking courses. The associateship of the...
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Crime, lives and videotape
David Puttnam tells Kam Patel that movie violence must influence the way people behave while Michael Winner rubbishes the idea. A team of academics is researching possible links. In Brian De Palma's...
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Chart hits?
Some geographers are getting very excited over the uses of computerised mapping systems. Others are not convinced. John Davies reports. Cartographic wonder-tool or overhyped techical gizmo? Enhancer...