Daylight robery
Durham University is anxiously asking whether anybody's chancellor is improperly dressed. The chancellors were out in force at the Queen's awards for higher education at Buckingham Palace earlier in...
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Fair exchange
Mind you, the unwary might have concluded that the PSA had taken to including ratings of speakers in lieu of their institutions in the programme list issued for last week's annual conference at York...
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All for nought
"Political Studies Association in political correctness split storm shock". Well not exactly. One or two people, notably Philip Norton, professor of politics at Hull University, did get rather...
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Stolen moments
The Department for Education's lurch this week on to the information superhighway may yet be hampered by the necessary equipment being in the wrong hands, if the trend seen in a written answer given...
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MPs clash on Barts merger
A private Bill to merge St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with the Royal London Hospital and Queen Mary and Westfield College has moved a stage forward in the Commons despite a stormy Labour...
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Essex v-c quits to return to research
Ron Johnston, vice chancellor of Essex University, is to step down after three years in the post. Professor Johnston, 54, will leave at the end of this academic year. He said he had decided to return...
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Blunkett's post-school unity
The Labour Party is drawing up plans for unifying education for the over-16s, with employers and training providers playing significant roles. David Blunkett, the shadow education secretary, wants...
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Odd Bods
Where can you buy a Relativity Mouse Mat, a pair of sterling silver earring replicas of Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, and a "bundle" of J. R. R. Tolkien goodies, all at the push of a button? Only in a...
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Rotund affair
Nowadays, every county council worth its salt wants a university, not least because it is likely to mean an extra Pounds 50 million or so to the local coffers. But there was a time when university...
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Rough trade
Proof that bashing Essex University and sociology is not the exclusive preserve of the Cro-Magnon right. During last week's Commons debate on London University medical school mergers, Labour MP Brian...
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Eek!
The tabloids will doubtless be excited to hear that the 50th birthday of Lord Plant, political theorist, Labour peer and chair of the party commission on electoral reform, was marked by the delivery...
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Earnings from industry reach all-time high
Industry put a record Pounds 131 million into the 53 "old" universities for research last year, according to figures from the Universities' Statistical Record. Cambridge and science-based Imperial...
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THES Internet
The THES Internet Service, which includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper as well as all our job advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper, is available...
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Scots get go-ahead to hoard surpluses
Scottish university finance directors have welcomed a Government green light for building up institutional surpluses. Institutions have been wary of building up surpluses in case their apparent...
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Sex and the single species
Spurred into action by the demands of politicians and the ordinary homo sapiens on the street, biologists held a meeting last week to sort out the question of what exactly constitutes a species. They...