Bond bears private strings
The rush by universities to the door of the money markets, which began in earnest last week when Lancaster University became the first higher education institution to launch a bond scheme, could lead...
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NCVQ set for huge expansion by degrees
The Government quango charged with introducing a unified national vocational qualifications system - which would mean universities offering undergraduate and postgraduate NVQs and GNVQs - is set to...
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Call for council to unite Scots adults
Adult educationists in Scotland would like a new Scottish council for continuing education to help bring together the sector's diverse interests. This is the majority view among a sample of Scottish...
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Freebie deal
(Photograph) - Freebie deal: Students at the University of Plymouth's new Pounds 14 million Robbins hall of residence have ended a nine-week rent strike in return for a Pounds ,000 rent cut and...
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Scots stay silent on principals' pay
Only the newest of Scotland's 13 universities, the University of Abertay Dundee, has revealed its principal's salary, a year before being required to do so, according to figures from the Scottish...
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Akker unveils pruning strategy
A campaign for cuts in the structure of lecturers' union Natfhe has been launched by its general secretary, John Akker. Fears of a financial crisis lie behind his proposals to reduce the number of...
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Tropical disease research appeal
A World Health Organisation adviser has appealed to academic chemists and to the drug industry to give tropical disease researchers access to their chemicals. The researchers need to screen them for...
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Tall tales
There's nothing like slightly outre academic expertise to get the odd phone calls coming in. Roderick Floud, the provost of London Guildhall University, is also a leading authority on height through...
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Good God!
Reassurance for those with doubts about the Foreign Office's sources of advice from the latest issue of PSA News: "Basil Eastwood (Head of Research and Analysis Department, FCO), spoke to GOD at...
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Disgusted of . . .
What you find disgusting is not a unique aspect of your multi-faceted personality but falls neatly into one of five categories common to all of us, psychologists have discovered. Karen Barker of City...
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Lounge lizards
Good news for Saville Row. The highly tasteful invitation to the National History Museum membership scheme launch, sponsored by Glaxo, includes the invaluable information that it "Admits Two Lounge...
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Bright girl
One of the first recruits to the University of Warwick's prestigious research fellowships is Sadie Plant, now at the University of Birmingham, who has been described in another newspaper as the...
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Wuff justice
Those doggone days waiting at the kennels for the owner to return from holiday could soon be over, thanks to scientists. They are raiding the anti-depressant cupboards at drug company Upjohn to find...
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A mite clean
At this delicate stage of the annual pay round, the Association for University Teachers is taking no chances on its office being bugged. Such is the diligence with which staff protection measures are...
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Git grads
Private Eye's reprint of a BBC memo explaining the proportion of the population finding certain swear words offensive should be creating a stir in the more market-research conscious parts of Oxford...