Call for Scottish overseas IT drive
A leading financier has challenged universities to split into domestic and international divisions to exploit their multimedia expertise. Ewan Brown, executive director of the Noble Grossart merchant...
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Feeling the pulse
Antithesis is a regular critic of unwieldy and meaningless acronyms so it would like to give a rare bit of praise to the EU for its programme, Pulses for European Agro-industries, more commonly known...
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Widgery pokery
And another hello to master of electronic gadgetry and final-year design student at Loughborough University, Richard Widgery.
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Boarding up
Oxford has also this week made a great step forward for womankind. University proctors have decided to extend to women the previously male-only privilege of carrying their mortarboards, rather than...
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File IT here
Hello to the information technology course leader at the University of Abertay Dundee, Dr P. E. File.
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Mollusc mussels in on pollution
Pioneering work by British scientists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory looks set to place the mussel at the heart of a novel pollution monitoring system for the North Sea. Action to develop a consistent...
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Shabby campus shame
Shabby campuses point to years of neglect of higher education by government and the need for massive investment and substantial reform, according to a report published today by the National...
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Lecturers-for-hire service slashes prices
A new business providing lecturers for hire has cut its subscription rate by Pounds 1,000-Pounds 2,000 per college, fuelling speculation that the take-up of the service has been poorer than expected...
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Unions signal summer of disputes as employers look again at pay offer
Higher education unions in new universities and colleges this week predicted industrial action as a result of the employers' "derisory" pay offer. Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union...
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It's a dog's life
At the time when the United Oxford and Cambridge University Club is defeating its pro-women lobby, another, less publicised Cambridge male bastion has fallen - but not to the delight of many...
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Simply frightening
Edinburgh doctor Colin Douglas, writing in the latest Student British Medical Journal, provides a helpful if worrying insight into interviews for new medical graduates. "Do not be alarmed if we ask...
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Problems add up
Maths exam students at an Ulster college could count on nothing last week. They sat down to do their exam paper and soon realised that they had been given the paper they were due to sit the following...
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Alarming tale
Perhaps Mr Widgery could set his mind to the design flaws in the fire alarm system installed at Imperial College London. The alarms are not triggered by cigarette smoke . . . unless the naughty...
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Mine's a Napier
Academics at some Scottish higher education institutions have taken to referring to a gin and tonic as "a Napier", a reference to the High Court case this spring, when Napier lecturer Paul Agutter...
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Fast repast
At last, an insight into what sets the Scots apart from other European nations - they eat faster than anyone else. The discovery was made by a multicultural group of student teachers from...