Students protest at housing
Manchester University has backed down on proposed rent increases in halls of residence this term, following a student rent strike. Students, who voted unanimously in favour of the strike in a packed...
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Welsh work exerts a magnetic attraction
Independent researcher Roger Coghill, from Pontypool, Gwent, is doing his best to broaden understanding of scientific research in the former Eastern bloc. Mr Coghill has brought at his own expense a...
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Staff scupper third semester pilot plan
Liverpool John Moores University is to withdraw its bid for a third semester pilot in a move which will deal a blow to Government plans for their introduction across higher education. The university...
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Students protest at housing
Students at the London School of Economics heckled higher education minister Eric Forth this week as he opened a new student hall at High Holborn. The students were angry that telephone lines and...
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Bidders for research institute pull out
Some of the potential bidders for the Natural Resources Institute have pulled out because of changes made in the run up to privatisation by its owner, the Over-seas Development Administration, writes...
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Catch a shooting star . . .
Huw Richards, in the second part of our series on the Research Assessment Exercise, looks at the transfer market. More than a few academics are in jobs they never expected to fill as a consequence of...
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Green stamp for SMEs
Small and medium-sized businesses throughout Britain are about to get a new source of advice on their environmental problems, thanks to a unique collaboration between the four universities of the...
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Ministers agree to slash space budget
European space ministers last week agreed on an efficiency drive at the European Space Agency to cut the agency's costs by at least 15 per cent over the next five years. The deal owes much to the...
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Monumental show:Former students of Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art, Paul Hughes and Gwyn Jones
(Photograph) - Monumental show: Former students of Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art, Paul Hughes and Gwyn Jones have set up an exhibition at the college examining the sometimes...
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Professions change quality role
Professional bodies are abandoning their direct role in the monitoring of quality on university courses, according to a new report from the Quality in Higher Education project at the University of...
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Bernstein honoured by his peers
The sociologist Basil Bernstein has "inspired, intrigued, delighted and annoyed" generations of teachers and researchers across the world, an international gathering of sociologists of education and...
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Ernest endeavour
Alumni to be proud of no 15: The medically-unusual Ernest Saunders, former Guinness boss now attempting to redress his legal difficulty of a few years ago, learnt some of what he knows (and...
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Infamous footsteps
And warm congratulations to the Glasgow University football team, who have qualified for the first round of the Scottish Cup. Let's hope they fare better than their predecessors of 1960, who also...
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Tale of two cities
Oh well, there go Brian Roper's chances of becoming a big wheel in the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals while Gareth Roberts is chairman. It is not that the North London v-c's almost...
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Minister defends Ropa record
Science minister Ian Taylor has rebuffed criticism of the multimillion pound Realising Our Potential Award scheme, insisting that it is "fully living up to expectations". Announcing the publication...