Scots stay silent on principals' pay
Only the newest of Scotland's 13 universities, the University of Abertay Dundee, has revealed its principal's salary, a year before being required to do so, according to figures from the Scottish...
Only the newest of Scotland's 13 universities, the University of Abertay Dundee, has revealed its principal's salary, a year before being required to do so, according to figures from the Scottish...
A campaign for cuts in the structure of lecturers' union Natfhe has been launched by its general secretary, John Akker. Fears of a financial crisis lie behind his proposals to reduce the number of...
A World Health Organisation adviser has appealed to academic chemists and to the drug industry to give tropical disease researchers access to their chemicals. The researchers need to screen them for...
There's nothing like slightly outre academic expertise to get the odd phone calls coming in. Roderick Floud, the provost of London Guildhall University, is also a leading authority on height through...
Reassurance for those with doubts about the Foreign Office's sources of advice from the latest issue of PSA News: "Basil Eastwood (Head of Research and Analysis Department, FCO), spoke to GOD at...
What you find disgusting is not a unique aspect of your multi-faceted personality but falls neatly into one of five categories common to all of us, psychologists have discovered. Karen Barker of City...
Good news for Saville Row. The highly tasteful invitation to the National History Museum membership scheme launch, sponsored by Glaxo, includes the invaluable information that it "Admits Two Lounge...
One of the first recruits to the University of Warwick's prestigious research fellowships is Sadie Plant, now at the University of Birmingham, who has been described in another newspaper as the...
Those doggone days waiting at the kennels for the owner to return from holiday could soon be over, thanks to scientists. They are raiding the anti-depressant cupboards at drug company Upjohn to find...
At this delicate stage of the annual pay round, the Association for University Teachers is taking no chances on its office being bugged. Such is the diligence with which staff protection measures are...
Private Eye's reprint of a BBC memo explaining the proportion of the population finding certain swear words offensive should be creating a stir in the more market-research conscious parts of Oxford...
A religious group at the University of Coventry is coordinating plans for a new Catholic university for the West of Ireland. The Faith Alive organisation is believed to have secured the backing of...
(Photograph) - On the treadmill: Loughborough University vice chancellor David Wallace tests his fitness before Sunday's London Marathon, supervised by Mary Nevill, sports science lecturer and former...
Manchester University has ruled out redundancies as a means of dealing with its poor 1995/96 grant settlement. Martin Harris, vice chancellor of the university, said: "There is absolutely no plan for...
A Pounds 7 million laboratory for molecular cell biology, opened last week at University College London, will enable scientists to study the genes that have been discovered by gene-mapping programmes...