Slippery slope
Just as well that Buddhists do not go in for fatwas, or the public relations staff at La Sainte Union College and theology lecturer Danny Sullivan would be making hurried preparations for Rushdie-...
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Show down
Soapy science could have made its television debut, rivalling the familiar characters in the Rovers Return and the Queen Vic, if Salford's vice chancellor had his way. Tom Husband recently revealed...
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Pay-offs a go-go
Vice chancellors agog at the goings-on at Huddersfield may like to know that, if their aim in life is a good pay-off, they went into the wrong academically-related activity. The American magazine...
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Odds on Gamble
One has to feel a certain sympathy for Andrew Gamble, recently appointed pro vice chancellor for academic planning at Sheffield University. It seems the poor fellow is doomed to become a vice...
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Back to the future
Competing for the Future, co-authored by London Business School professor Gary Hamel, is already showing signs of living up to its title. Launched yesterday at a reception at LBS, it had already...
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Green labels
Proposals for greening the campus via increased recycling are obviously taken seriously at the strife-torn University of Huddersfield. The photograph of new vice chancellor Sir William Taylor that...
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Genetic screen finds hidden disease
A new definition of health should be adopted by medical experts if they are to deal successfully with the ethics of genetic screening, a Manchester conference was told last week. If health is defined...
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Human genetic research inquiry
Human genetic research will be the subject of the next major inquiry of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. The inquiry will be into the ethical, regulatory and economic...
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`Ancients' demand summer subsidy
Student leaders in the country's oldest universities are launching an "Ancients Campaign" to demand the restoration of benefits to students over the summer vacation. Student unions at Aberdeen,...
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Hot off the press
Almost as rapidly into the public consciousness was Warwick University professor of continuing education Chris Duke's article on part-time degrees in The THES of August 9 this summer. Professor Duke...
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Bottoms up
Sideswipes is long overdue an attack of James Joyce, and Ulysses (1922) furnishes no 91, in the shape of a chair even more bizarre than some of those funded in institutions over the last few years: "...
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Red tape chokes second loans
The student loans scheme came under fresh fire this week as it was revealed that red tape is choking a new applications system for second-time borrowers. The Student Loans Company in Glasgow...
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Debt fears deterring sixth-formers, says NUS
More than a quarter of sixth-formers may be deterred from going on to higher education because of worries over student debt, the National Union of Students claimed this week. A snapshot survey of 500...
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Exercise may halt diabetes
Researchers at Cambridge University are launching the second phase of a unique study of diabetes, this time investigating how physical inactivity affects the onset of the disease. More than 1,100...
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Housing grievances given early hearing
For many immigrants and homeless people with a grievance against a local authority the only course of action is to apply to the courts for leave to pursue a judicial review. As the official mechanism...