Gender pioneer
Dundee University, which is setting up Scotland's first chair in gender relations, also boasts the first woman to hold a chair in a Scottish University. Margaret Fairlie, a pioneer user of radium who...
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Acronym angst
The Campaign for Release from an Acronym-Sodden Society, CRASS, has awarded its April wooden spoon to Bradford University's planned European programme of environmental education, the Module on...
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Quantum leap
More popular than the paperback version of Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers, and nearly as popular as Interview with the Vampire, is a book by an Open University professor which reached the top ten in...
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Psychological blow
Students will be alarmed to hear that the man who discovered that they cheat frequently has been appointed president of the British Psychological Society. Stephen Newstead, professor of psychology at...
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Ceilidh of death
Geneticists worried that their latest conference, "The Genetics of Death", held in Glasgow, might be too depressing to bear, organised "a variant on a traditional Scottish entertainment" to liven...
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Keeping suite
Colleges Employers Forum chief executive Roger Ward wishes his good standing abroad would trickle back to the folks at home. Far from the noise of his protest-surrounded bunker in Oxford Street, and...
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Seeing the light
The Skeptic magazine recently queried Allergies and Allergens by Albert Budden, which claims that some people are not only hypersensitive to electricity, sounds and smells - but see aliens into the...
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Time warped
An academic hour is very different from an ordinary hour - or so the Russians believe. Students on a recent exchange visit to St Petersburg were told that the advertised four hours of lessons a day...
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Nosey Parker on trail of student dodgers
Southampton Institute has hired a private security firm to track down students who dodge a campus car-parking fee of Pounds 15. The firm is hunting for students who park for free in neighbouring...
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Scorpion trial virologist stung by ousting
David Bishop, the ousted director of the Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology, is considering legal action against his former employer, the Natural Environment Research Council, on a...
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Lawyers pressed to put accent on Europe
The Law Society said this week it was concerned about a growing number of clients suing lawyers for professional negligence over a failure to consider European Union law in pursuit of a case. This is...
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Chinese puzzle
(Photograph) - Chinese puzzle: Nathan Sivin, professor of Chinese culture and history of science at the University of Pennsylvania, and Bridie Andrews, a postgraduate at the Wellcome Unit for the...
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Boswell's formula for underpinning GNVQ
The Government has spelled out how it wants national agencies to spend Pounds 23 million earmarked for the development of General National Vocational Qualifications. Tim Boswell, further and higher...
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Institute goes for lifelong learning
A unique industry/university partnership aims to provide tailor-made learning programmes to enhance competitiveness of manufacturing companies starting with those located in the North West. The...
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Capital ideas at colleges win Queen's award
Two London institutions are among the 140 winners of the prestigious Queen's Awards for Export Achievement announced today. King's College London has received the accolade for earning Pounds 16...