Money for old Ropa
The wildly popular director of research councils, Sir John Cadogan, is said to be hopping mad at journalists continually writing what he regards as negative stories about the work by the Office of...
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Triple headache for accountants
Access funds, always objects of student scepticism, have begun to inspire fear and loathing among university accounts departments. In the dock alongside them is a more familiar villain, the Higher...
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Britain's lone plea to cut ESA spending
British officials will next week call on the European Space Agency to slash its Pounds 0 million annual budget by 25 per cent over a five-year period. At a meeting of space ministers from ESA member...
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Bias rumour quashed
The rumour, rife in middle-class homes, that the more prestigious universities are running admissions policies biased against public-school pupils was effectively quashed this week by the heads of...
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Academic training
The splendid people who brought you this year's imaginatively revisionist British Rail timetable appear to have spread their publishing interests to Cranfield University where academic staff have...
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Natfhe faces Pounds 1m cash crisis
Natfhe, the university and college lecturers union, faces a potential shortfall of Pounds l million in its income unless it makes drastic savings through administrative changes and stems the loss in...
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Call for more to resign in Portmouth expenses row
Staff at Portsmouth University this week called for the resignation of Stuart Waring, chair of governors, as well as that of a senior member of the board and ex audit committee chairman Charles Brims...
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Extremists disrupt freshers fairs
London Guildhall University closed all its buildings and sent staff home for the day last Friday, on the advice of the police, following a demonstration by the Muslim fundamentalist group Hizb ut-...
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Take random route for Lottery success
Lottery addicts could avoid sharing their jackpot prizes with other winners by choosing more than one number over 40 and picking numbers that are adjacent to each other, a mathematician from Sussex...
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Strung out
(Photograph) - Strung out:glass portholes in the floor of the award-winning new atrium at Birmingham's School of Jewellery hint at the presence of the heavy engineering tools in the basement 'engine...
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Charity urges big trial of breast cancer drug
The Cancer Research Campaign has appealed to all breast cancer experts in the United Kingdom to take part in a huge trial of the drug tamoxifen, writes Aisling Irwin. The trial, which aims to reach...
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Mine safety students could be a gold mine
Mine safety has come a long way since the caged canary and Sir Humphry Davy's lamp. But who would have thought that the coal industry would be clamouring for its professional rescue service to be...
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Hard drive needed
Bill Lindsay of Strathclyde University's education faculty has warned that a teacher recruitment drive "of dramatic proportions" is needed to underpin Labour leader Tony Blair's vision of providing...
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Wellcome to Glaxo
Fifty scientists from the Wellcome Foundation, the drug company which merged with Glaxo, are to set up a project at University College London that will eventually cost Glaxo-Wellcome Pounds 10...
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Maxwell moves
Maxwell Irvine, who became principal of Aberdeen University in 1991, has been appointed vice chancellor of Birmingham University from October 1996. He will succeed fellow physicist Sir Michael...