The visitor snatchers
The site of Edinburgh University's new International Social Sciences Institute has a chequered history, according to legend. Former inhabitants allegedly include a group of Dominican friars who spent...
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Industrialists and academics envisage licence for skill
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise have been bringing together academics and industrialists in a bid to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research, writes Olga Wojtas. Their...
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Year delay for Higher Still
Michael Forsyth, noted for the speed of his reforms when he was Scottish Office education minister, has postponed a second educational reform since his appointment last month as Secretary of State...
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Coventry gets Pounds 5m for tech park
Coventry University has won the urban regeneration lottery by receiving a Pounds 5 million grant from the European Regional Development Fund for a 17-acre technology park. The university, which is...
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Design a robot
(Photograph) - Design a robot: engineering students from around the world took part in a robot design competition earlier this month at Cambridge University's department of engineering. Groups of...
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Worm work wins medal
Howard Atkinson at the University of Leeds has won the Research Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England for his work on tiny worms called nematodes, which cost world agriculture $100...
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Fears over flood of racism cases
The growing caseload of compensation claims against allegedly "racist" university and college employers is alarming education managers. They fear an increasing number of frivolous industrial tribunal...
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UK research spending lags but still bucks the trend
The United Kingdom is defying the international norm by increasing research and development expenditure, according to statistics produced by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
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Move to protect 'unique' subjects
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is considering "limited protection" for departments which are unique in Scotland or whose subject is considered vital. The council has already warned...
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Double vision
(Photograph) - Double vision: Colleagues have presented Harold Hankins, who retires at the end of this month after 12 years as principal and vice chancellor of UMIST, with a portrait of himself by...
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Scots worried by self satisfaction
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's 24 latest quality assessments have yielded one excellent, one unsatisfactory, 13 highly satisfactories and nine satisfactories, compared to self...
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Queens denies Irish flux
Queens University has attacked an MP's claim that Northern Ireland school leavers are being forced to go to mainland universities because their places are being taken by students from the Irish...
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A book for the bobby on the beat
"Well, Sarge, I was proceeding in a westerly direction down Green Street when I was struck by this matrix management theory." This might seem an unlikely storyline for ITV's police soap The Bill, but...
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Theft charge
Simon Heighes, the Oxford don and baroque music expert, has been charged with the theft of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, worth Pounds 67,500, from the library at Christ Church. He was...
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Spin doctors
(Photograph) - Spin doctors: Lynn Ross, course tutor on Arran for Strathclyde University's senior studies institute, fingers Scotland's contribution to a weaving project for the United Nations fourth...