Solo cello
International cellist Lynn Harrell has left his post as principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Mr Harrell, a Canadian who was appointed as a successor to Sir David Lumsden in 1993, will devote more...
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Dundee roaming
Dundee University's centre for medical education is launching a distance learning programme which could revolutionise health care in 23 South American countries, funded by the Kellogg Foundation. The...
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John Moores gets greener
Liverpool John Moores University has adopted a comprehensive policy statement aimed at making its activities more environmentally-friendly. Less waste, more cycling and fewer parking spaces could be...
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Scottish HE libraries to stack up on cash
Scottish higher education institutions are to spend more than Pounds 33 million to improve their libraries. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is providing more than Pounds 16 million to...
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Labour attempts to heal graduate tax rift
The Labour Party's education team was preparing to take emergency action this week to patch up its divisions over proposals for a graduate tax. David Blunkett, Labour's education spokesman, is...
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Latest phase
The new year at Sunderland University will kick off with phase 2 construction of the institution's St Peter Campus. The project will result in a school of computing and information systems, an...
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Legal minimum
New guidelines for minimum areas of knowledge, understanding and intellectual skills, proposed for law degrees by the Law Society and the Council of Legal Education, have been approved by the Lord...
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Eternal struggle for expansion
There were two education ministers in the Conservative Cabinet -- and the senior of them was not prepared to contemplate a higher education policy not endorsed by the University Grants Committee. By...
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Faith and charity
The Canterbury Gospels, a 6th-century bible supplied by Pope Gregory the Great for St Augustine's mission to introduce Christianity to England, is one of many ancient documents on display at an...
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Vivisectionists find tougher trail to MPs
The case for animal experiments will be harder to defend as a result of new guidelines from the Charity Commission, says the Association of Medical Research Charities. The guidelines, issued last...
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Hidden legal traps exposed on the freewheeling net
Fears about the potential for libel on the Internet have resurfaced with the launch of a major lawsuit in the United States. The owner of a US electronic bulletin board, Prodigy Services, is being...
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A right Royal restoration
Huw Richards finds that historians are now beginning to take a serious interest in the much trivialised subject of the Royal family. There is not a telephoto lens among the lot of them, and, while...
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Nigerian strikers' salaries stopped
Nigerian education minister Iyorchia Ayie has stopped salary payments to every university lecturer in the country. The minister ordered vice chancellors at 31 universities to implement his directive...
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Danes set sights on market
Denmark should focus support for academic and public research more selectively on areas where it can be a world leader, according to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development....
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Hunt for defective gene gets under way
Aston University scientists have begun the hunt for the elusive gene which causes Tourette Syndrome, a rare neuropsychiatric disease characterised by recurrent muscle tics and involuntary...