Scots plug computing gap
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is giving more money to computing and information technology in its latest allocation of capital funding. The move follows last year's quality assessment...
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Soap dished
Staff at Liverpool John Moores University this week shunned their home-grown soap Brookside in favour of Manchester-based Coronation Street. Why? Bet Gilroy's niece Vicky was thumbing the pages of...
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Thin cut
The latest evidence that being slim can improve your health comes from the radiologists. They have managed to make a hole in a magnetic resonance imager into which a surgeon can slip, so that he can...
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Room with a view
Easy winner of this week's "Small World" prize for the best reason for going to a conference in an attractive foreign venue goes to Andrew Thornley, of the London School of Economics. At the Regional...
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Post haste
The image on the back page of The THES came to you from Europe's latest satellite, down a cascade of high-technology links, as far as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. But for the last...
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Clue do
A professor of English has shown that he can beat scientists and engineers when it comes to external consultancy work. Since it stands to reason that Graham Caie, professor at Glasgow University's...
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Royal decree
London Guildhall University has probably never received as commanding a call to attention as the one in The Guardian last week. The university was told, along with the Home Office and the general...
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Higher kite
Thames Valley University is soaring over intellectual boundaries with a new course which can earn you five credit points towards a BA degree: "Kites and Kite Flying". What vital technique does it...
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York pins hopes on huge expansion
York University, one of the smallest "old" universities, could become one of the largest if plans are approved for a threefold increase in students. Numbers could rise from 5,000 to 16,000. The...
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Labour puts vouchers on think list
The Labour Party is to examine a voucher system for funding further and higher education, writes Tony Tysome. Think tanks set up by Labour's education team will weigh up whether vouchers would create...
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Academic sparkle
The Consumers' Association Which? report removed some of the sparkle from mineral water recently, claiming that it is overpriced and over-rated. But we can still have faith in Findlay's finest...
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Erika Strenski, an MSc student from Sheffield University
(Photograph) - Digging in: Erika Strenski, an MSc student from Sheffield University, sifts for remains of pre-historic wolves, reindeer, lemmings and bears in an unexplored cave in south Devon in a...
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Clearing house plan for law graduates
A proposed clearing house for law graduates seeking training places in barristers' chambers should help protect women applicants from sexual harrassment, the Bar Council said this week. Peter...
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CVCP seeks health and safety cash
Vice chancellors are bidding for an extra Pounds 350 million in the next public spending round to meet the rising cost of health, safety, and disabled access. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Northern board puts exam proposals
One of Britain's largest examination boards has proposed a single post-16 qualifications system, the backbone of which would be reformed A and AS exams. The Northern Examinations and Assessment Board...