Honour beyond Our Ken?
Nottingham Trent University's proposal to award the Chancellor of the Exchequer an honorary degree was under heated discussion this week as the academic board - which has already overwhelmingly...
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Levy hangs in balance
A É«ºÐÖ±²¥S survey of vice chancellors suggests voting will be close as they decide today whether to endorse plans for a levy on new undergraduates in 1997. Plans to withdraw from outside activities,...
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2:1 reigns supreme
Reports that universities have increased their grades so much that the 2:1 is now more common than the 2:2 were confirmed this week, with the publication of national data on degree classes....
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Rent rise leads to strike
Students are witholding rent payments from Liverpool University after hall fees outstripped grants for the first time ever. Students are paying their rent into a rent strike account set up by the...
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Free house for students
There was something incongruous yet deeply familiar, even comforting, about the press launch of the Campaign for Free Education's nominations for the forthcoming NUS National Executive elections....
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Prime Minister's question time, Tuesday 30 January 1995
QUESTION: Mr Robert Jackson: Will [my right hon. Friend] confirm that universities are, in law, private bodies, that their financial relations with their students are a matter for them to determine...
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V-cs polled on action in face of cut budget
The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S conducted a poll of vice chancellors' opinions between January 22 and 31. The predictive ability of the results has to be qualified by the fact that 38 of the 104 Committee of Vice...
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College faces third sex case
A church college run by a former member of the Equal Opportunities Commission is facing its third accusation of sexual discrimination. During a recent wave of redundancies Cheltenham and Gloucester...
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Russia threatens archive filming
A Stanford University institutes's attempt to microfilm the archives of the Soviet Union Communist party and certain branches of the Soviet government is threatened by a change in Russian law. During...
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Gotcha! Auntie nabs 'wimp' wonder
Where once Bertrand Russell led, the Rupert Murdoch professor of language and communication now follows. Simon Targett talks to the exponent of this year's BBC Reith lectures, Jean Aitchison True or...
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Love's labours found?
Can a long overlooked but mediocre poem be the work of the Bard? Tim Cornwell reports on the latest Shakespearean row. The Usual Suspects Since time, and his predestinated end, Abridged the circuit...
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Is there anyone out there?
It's very unlikely, says Arnold Wolfendale. When lecturing on the search for extra-terrestrial life and the future of life on earth, I usually start by asking "how many of you believe that there is...
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The sleep of reason ... is a female nightmare
* There are 44 million "missing women" in China alone, 36.9 million in India. * In India the "missing women" comprise 9.5 per cent of the number of actual women, in Pakistan 12.9 per cent * When only...
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Genetic screening
Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee look at how genetic determinism in the media fosters acceptance of controlling reproduction for a common good. When in 1991, CBS commentator Andy Rooney said on...
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The sleep of reason...
Feminists have denounced liberalism for being too individualistic, too abstract and obsessed with reason. But Martha Nussbaum argues that where you mistrust the habits of prejudice, there you have...