V-cs look at 'honest deal' code
Vice chancellors are debating a code of conduct for the treatment of overseas students which urges British institutions not to seek recruits by criticising each other. The theme of "honest dealing"...
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Art mimics life
(Photograph) - Art mimics life: computer artist William Latham creates his work by mimicking genetic processes that generate life on computer. Latham, who recently gave a presentation at the...
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Trent's Powerhouse plays host to censorship storm
Nottingham Trent University has been accused of censorship after its decision to cancel a performance of the controversial play Geek at the end of last month. The play, which was due to show at the...
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Bosnian lifeline launched by AUT
An academic lifeline for Bosnia has been launched by the Association of University Teachers together with the World University Service (Austria), in a bid to help staff and students at stricken...
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Thanks a lot
Acknowledgements can be lengthy but no academic paper has ever thanked as many people as the independently published, Trilogic Ennealogica Systems (TES) as Sciences for Creative Thinking in Knowledge...
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Passing fancy
Edinburgh University medical researchers yesterday held a press conference on their survey of rugby injuries, accompanied by a student at the university, Gregor Townsend, who has more than a passing...
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Sacked cleaners win case
London University has had to pay a further Pounds 300,000 in compensation to former cleaning staff whose jobs in halls of residence were switched to private contractors two years ago. The last...
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Scots' lab resists move to York
An Aberdeen research consortium is making a last-ditch attempt to stave off the relocation of a laboratory to York as part of the reorganisation of the Agriculture Ministry's Central Science...
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Greens aid eco-centre reprieve
Edinburgh University has reprieved its threatened Centre for Human Ecology for a year, rejecting a management proposal to axe it in September. The university court, meeting on World Environment Day,...
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Alaska bound
With the fall of Soviet Communism, the threat of being sent to the Siberian salt mines may have receded. But there are still means of dealing with undesirables. A manager from the BP exploration...
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Bowled over
The prize for seasonal research activity of the week must surely go to New College, Durham, which celebrated the county cricket team's move to a new ground by holding a contest for exciting...
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By the book
There's one book which Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students, has never got round to reading, although he says he has always meant to read it: the constitution of the NUS. "It's...
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Beyond their ken
Michael Moss, Glasgow University's archivist, drew a parallel in a recent lecture between medical education 200 years ago, when Glasgow Royal Infirmary was founded, and current proposed reforms. In...
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Water alert
Even worse than the scorpions in Oxford are the students. A three-man crime wave from Oxford was abruptly stopped by a police siege recently. Trouble was, when the police finally rounded up the...
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Sting in the tail
The maxim that there is no such thing as bad publicity seems to be in vogue at the Natural Environment Res-earch Council, as anyone who has just turned to June in the NERC calendar has seen. Pin-up...