Odds on Gamble
One has to feel a certain sympathy for Andrew Gamble, recently appointed pro vice chancellor for academic planning at Sheffield University. It seems the poor fellow is doomed to become a vice...
One has to feel a certain sympathy for Andrew Gamble, recently appointed pro vice chancellor for academic planning at Sheffield University. It seems the poor fellow is doomed to become a vice...
Competing for the Future, co-authored by London Business School professor Gary Hamel, is already showing signs of living up to its title. Launched yesterday at a reception at LBS, it had already...
Proposals for greening the campus via increased recycling are obviously taken seriously at the strife-torn University of Huddersfield. The photograph of new vice chancellor Sir William Taylor that...
A new definition of health should be adopted by medical experts if they are to deal successfully with the ethics of genetic screening, a Manchester conference was told last week. If health is defined...
Human genetic research will be the subject of the next major inquiry of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. The inquiry will be into the ethical, regulatory and economic...
Student leaders in the country's oldest universities are launching an "Ancients Campaign" to demand the restoration of benefits to students over the summer vacation. Student unions at Aberdeen,...
Almost as rapidly into the public consciousness was Warwick University professor of continuing education Chris Duke's article on part-time degrees in The THES of August 9 this summer. Professor Duke...
Sideswipes is long overdue an attack of James Joyce, and Ulysses (1922) furnishes no 91, in the shape of a chair even more bizarre than some of those funded in institutions over the last few years: "...
The student loans scheme came under fresh fire this week as it was revealed that red tape is choking a new applications system for second-time borrowers. The Student Loans Company in Glasgow...
More than a quarter of sixth-formers may be deterred from going on to higher education because of worries over student debt, the National Union of Students claimed this week. A snapshot survey of 500...
Researchers at Cambridge University are launching the second phase of a unique study of diabetes, this time investigating how physical inactivity affects the onset of the disease. More than 1,100...
For many immigrants and homeless people with a grievance against a local authority the only course of action is to apply to the courts for leave to pursue a judicial review. As the official mechanism...
(Photograph) - Pigs could soon have their curly tails back, according to scientists in Ulster who claim a world breakthrough. Presently farmers cut pigs' tails at birth to prevent other pigs from...
A grease that does not burn promises to help prevent lethal fires in tunnels of the kind that struck the Los Angeles Metro tunnel this summer, seriously injuring several people. Developed by Jim...
Some food processing methods may impede one of the body's natural methods of protection against intestinal diseases, such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. Researchers are discovering that...