Newton ponders suicide inquiry
Tony Newton, Lord President of the Privy Council, is considering whether he has the power to launch an inquiry into David Regan's suicide and "related matters" at Nottingham University. Mr Newton, as...
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Semester exams vote
Students at Liverpool John Moores University are to be balloted by their union over the timing of semester-end examinations. End of semester pressure is one of the main complaints raised by students...
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Student incompetence prompts maths review
Concern over the mathematical competence of students starting degree courses in mathematics, science and engineering has spurred the London Mathematical Society to launch an inquiry into the National...
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Students protest over rent hike
Nearly Pounds 800,000 worth of rent is being withheld by students at two universities, in disputes over rent increases and poor accommodation. Students at Leeds University have withheld Pounds 650,...
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Porn ban row
Media students at the University of Westminster are protesting that a magazine produced as part of their coursework has been seized by the university and distribution stopped. The magazine, Anon...
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Tribunal to reassess plagiarism allegations
Allegations of plagiarism against former University College of Wales, Aberystwyth education lecturer Janem Jones are to be formally investigated by the University of Wales. The allegations first came...
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UCAS numbers on the increase
Applications for university entry in 1995 are up by 2.2 per cent on last year. The figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show that by the closing date of December 15 1994, 347...
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New marine centre fishes for interest
An international consortium of universities is being sought to control and run a new Pounds 10 million marine studies institute on the tiny Channel Island of Alderney. The institute, which will be a...
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Wait and sea
(Photograph) - Wait and sea:the tiny island of Alderney, where a Pounds 10 million marine biology and archaeology centre is to be built. The developers are on the look-out for a consortium of...
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Suds law
Yet more academic soaps nominated by Dan Weinbren of Middlesex University including Prisoner Lecture Block H, Dr Finlay's Textbook, Last of the Summer Term, Dr Who? and Melvyn Bragg's contribution to...
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Found out
Message on door lesson No. 2. Spotted at Liverpool John Moores University: the injunction "Do not disturb", complete with rejoinder: "No need. Disturbed already."
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Ferreted out
A fine example of the dangers attaching to working with both students and animals comes from the past life of Marilyn Butler, rector of Exeter College, Oxford and a fellow in English at the same...
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Size matters
Anyone engaged in the search for Europe's most miniature institution of higher learning could do worse than look at the new Directory of Higher Education Institutions in the EFTA States, just...
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Adult education
The dilemmas facing the film censors over what certificate to give films such as Natural Born Killers and Reservoir Dogs seem to have reached science education. The Royal Society of Edinburgh is...
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Re-employment rules warning
Regulations governing the re-employment of university staff who have already received severance payments should be tightened, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee was told this week. Graeme...