Academic freedom council backs law student's case
The Inns of Court School of Law is accused of undermining the visitorial process designed to ensure individuals who believe they are victims of injustice have a right of appeal to an external body...
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Cloth caps and clogs banished
The term textiles conjures up images of linens, yarns, woven fabrics, man-made fibres and similar materials used in the clothing industry. Yet at Leeds University department of textile industries the...
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Child care run like fast-food industry
Child welfare in the UK has adopted the style of the fast food industry, according to a leading social policy researcher. David Thorpe, senior lecturer in applied social science at Lancaster...
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Glasnost comes to Bournemouth
A certain amount of caginess is inevitable in new vice chancellors as they accustom themselves to their role as half human and half the embodiment of a large and complex academic institution. But...
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Colleges pay the price for degrees
Almost a fifth of further education colleges are now offering degree or sub-degree level courses supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. But the funding mechanism was not...
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Women win re-entry fellowships
Two women researchers are back in the laboratory this week after family career breaks of up to 12 years. They are the first recipients of the Wellcome Trust's research re-entry fellowships, each...
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Art surgeons
(Photograph) - Students from Wolverhampton University school of education art have been invited to produce a ceramic wall panel for the Victor Goldman Unit at the Eastman Dental Hospital in London....
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Ulster brain drain poll
The Northern Ireland Higher Education Council has launched a new investigation into the brain drain from the province. It will focus on whether the proposed new University of Ulster campus in west...
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Scots FE pay talks abandoned
National negotiations for Scotland's 43 further education colleges ended this week, with the major staff union warning of imminent industrial action. The Employers' Association for Scottish Further...
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Improving marine safety
Reducing high levels of deaths and injuries at sea is the aim of a Pounds 1.5 million maritime safety research centre being established at Cardiff University's department of maritime studies. An...
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Noble prize
Literary sideswipes reach three figures with the help of Walter Redfern from the French department at Reading University, who spotted Salvador Dali in characteristically bizarrely scatalogical mode...
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Shome mishtake
The latest issue of Press & Publication News from the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals apologises profusely for a wrong attribution in a previous report based on a newspaper...
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Highland fling
The Scottish Office may pour cold water on the prospect of a new University of the Highlands being set up, but are there signs that existing institutions are taking the scheme a little more seriously...
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No sex please
The zillions of forms sent out by the Office of Science and Technology as part of the process of collecting views on technology Foresight had, as you would expect, two boxes for declaring whether the...
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We have lift-off
Only a couple of weeks after Roger Bonnet, head of the European Space Agency's science programme, claimed that Britain wanted a "20 to 50 per cent" cut in the funding of space research; the British...