Government passes research costs buck
A House of Lords call for the Government to thrash out with universities a method of ensuring that institutions recover the full cost of taking on research work from Government departments has been...
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Call for chemistry shake-up
Many chemistry departments cannot survive in their present form, says a report by the Royal Society of Chemistry. There are too many undergraduate places; insufficient money to keep up the research...
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Plant Poirots
Green fingers are trotting after light fingers at the Scottish Agricultural College's horticulture department, which has branched into detective work. It is pursuing the case of the missing narcissi...
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Judgement day
The University of Cambridge's Latinists were at full stretch last week for the university's new batch of honorary degrees (see page 1), since the nomination speeches are performed in both English and...
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Man with no name
One person who made it to the launch but was a bit miffed was Ken Edwards, outgoing chairman of the CVCP, who is feeling a little unloved as his term of office dwindles to its final six weeks. His...
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Ill timed
The secret of a great press launch, as with comedy, is timing. No one knows this better than Barry Jackson, head of marketing at the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. Busy Barry was...
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American blues
Everything was in hand for the visit of Gillian Shephard to Wolverhampton University on Tuesday. But the frantic activity came to nought when she pulled out at the 11th hour. That meant all the...
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Through keyhole
Scottish preoccupations with devolution and self-empowerment have reached the realms of medicine, at least in the north-east. To help to liberate you from the authorities, Aberdeen University...
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Do Ron Ron
Hello to that righter of wrongs, Health and Safety inspector for education Mr Ron Wright.
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Cutting comment
Congratulations to the Ocean Drilling Program which the Natural Enviroment Research Council writes, is "at the cutting edge of ocean science".
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Tough decision
Who makes the really important decisions, like who should fill the new post of chief executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals? The Higher Education Funding Council, perhaps?...
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No cash for FE contract incentive
Some colleges of further education are too financially insecure to pay any salary increase this year or even to pay staff to shift to personal contracts, according to the Colleges Employers Forum....
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Class conscious
The second teaching myth to explode is that the brilliant pupil needs special attention. A. C. Aitken, Edinburgh University's legendary professor of maths, was renowned for once multiplying 987654321...
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Names that hurt
This week Antithesis can debunk two myths about good teaching. The first comes from psychologist Mark Griffiths, as reported in New Academic. After a conscientious experiment in learning some of his...
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Southampton bids for university status
Southampton Institute of Higher Education, one of the largest colleges in the sector, made a bid for university status this week. In a document launched in London, the institute proposed that all...