Engineering pay boom
The income of professional engineers and technicians has risen substantially over the past three years, according to a survey published this week. The study by the Engineering Council says that...
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Into the limelight
(Photograph) - Gilbert Smith (left), deputy director of research and development at the Department of Health and the National Health Service Executive and professor of social administration at the...
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Taxing traitor
Alumni to be proud of nos 12 and 13 are two contrasting Labour Party members. Liz Davies, who did not pay her poll tax, voted against the Labour whip twice and was refused endorsement as a candidate...
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Lucky numbers
Antithesis has a handy hint for the National Lottery Charities Board, which has been criticised for its high running costs. The board could cut its public relations postal budget by three quarters by...
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Streetwise
Who would you trust the numbering of our houses to: a mathematician, a philosopher, a writer, an architect or an "uncomplicated ordinary citizen"? J. N. Hunt, mathematician at Reading University, has...
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Bitter pill
From the British Medical Journal of 100 years ago, advice to school leavers contemplating studying medicine: "No one will deny that the prizes are great and that those who win them find their way...
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Warm dinners
Possibly despairing of more conventional means, Bourne-mouth University is going the literal-minded route to creating an academic hot-house - staff there report that their new dining room resembles...
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Money for old Ropa
The wildly popular director of research councils, Sir John Cadogan, is said to be hopping mad at journalists continually writing what he regards as negative stories about the work by the Office of...
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Triple headache for accountants
Access funds, always objects of student scepticism, have begun to inspire fear and loathing among university accounts departments. In the dock alongside them is a more familiar villain, the Higher...
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Britain's lone plea to cut ESA spending
British officials will next week call on the European Space Agency to slash its Pounds 0 million annual budget by 25 per cent over a five-year period. At a meeting of space ministers from ESA member...
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Bias rumour quashed
The rumour, rife in middle-class homes, that the more prestigious universities are running admissions policies biased against public-school pupils was effectively quashed this week by the heads of...
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Academic training
The splendid people who brought you this year's imaginatively revisionist British Rail timetable appear to have spread their publishing interests to Cranfield University where academic staff have...
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Natfhe faces Pounds 1m cash crisis
Natfhe, the university and college lecturers union, faces a potential shortfall of Pounds l million in its income unless it makes drastic savings through administrative changes and stems the loss in...
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Call for more to resign in Portmouth expenses row
Staff at Portsmouth University this week called for the resignation of Stuart Waring, chair of governors, as well as that of a senior member of the board and ex audit committee chairman Charles Brims...
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Extremists disrupt freshers fairs
London Guildhall University closed all its buildings and sent staff home for the day last Friday, on the advice of the police, following a demonstration by the Muslim fundamentalist group Hizb ut-...