Trader loses colleges millions
Colleges and universities in the United States which put their money in the Common Fund, an investment organisation specialising in higher education, have been warned that a rogue trader has caused...
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Battle to preserve Civil War sites
Anthony Gross (THES,June 30) is to be congratulated for drawing attention to the attempts of the Battlefields Trust to preserve Tewkesbury. The trust originated largely as a result of the earlier...
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Why governors must welcome staff
What is so different about university and college governing bodies that means staff are welcome on the former but often find themselves excluded from the latter? The Committee of University Chairmen...
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Bachelor of tarts sex ring denied
Claims on a South African television programme that University of the Free State students have been involved in a popular and exclusive sex club in conservative Bloemfontein have been angrily denied...
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French find examinitis cure
The education ministry's inspectorate has hailed a cure for what it describes in its annual report as "the well-known French syndrome of examinitis". France's universities tend to have the most...
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Germans want to be selective
German politicians and academics have launched a joint campaign for universities to set their own student selection procedures. It would recreate an elite higher education system by making...
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Hubble finds new galaxy
British and American astronomers have discovered a new kind of galaxy, a member of the group of "peculiar" galaxies, using the Hubble Space Telescope. These galaxies, over three billion light years...
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Heavy metal driven off road
Engineers at Warwick University have taken a big step towards helping car manufacturers cut car weight drastically through greater structural use of lightweight composite materials. Working in...
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IRCs failing self-finance test
Scientists in Interdisciplinary Research Centres are concerned about possible closures as the Government and research councils begin to take a close look at the centres in the light of changes in...
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Part-timers' rights spotlighted
Universities are being urged to hold an urgent review of contracts for part- time staff after a growing number of successful claims for unfair treatment. A conference for personnel officers and...
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From Exeter to Tibet with aid
Students and staff from Exeter College have just returned from taking medical supplies to a remote community of Tibetan refugees, who live in an arid desert region near the border of Mustang. The...
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Sister act
(Photograph) - Sister act: Sister Helen Prejean, a long-time campaigner against the death penalty in the United States, received an honourary doctorate in law at Glasgow University this week. Her...
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Copland to take over as rector at Westminster
Geoffrey Copland will become the new rector of the University of Westminster on January 1 1996, when Terence Burlin, retires. Dr Copland, who joined the university in 1987 when it was the Polytechnic...
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Graphics student in justified success
Sam Davy, a graphic design student at the University of Northumbria, was yesterday awarded top prize in this year's British Design & Art Direction (D&AD) competition for students, writes...
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Postgrads under review
Chairs of eponymous committees - Flowers, Follett, Jarrett et al - are to be joined by Martin Harris, vice chancellor of Manchester University, following the setting up of a new inquiry into...