Fortune nookie
Dr Ng Man-lun, reader in psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong, is urging women on mainland China to take more than one husband as a solution to the shortage of wives, according to a report in...
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Mailed fist
The academic habit of biting the hand that feeds lives on in Elaine Showalter, chair of the English department at Princeton University. Delivering the Northcliffe lecture at University College,...
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Granny bonds
During national science week a general rule is emerging: lock your granny up if she lives anywhere near York. Last year, York University invited punters to "Get granny barcoded". This must have been...
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Four-letter word
Keele University vice chancellor, professor Brian Fender, HEFCE chief executive in waiting, has revealed one of the high-powered doctrines he regards as crucial to the development of higher education...
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Off the menu
All best wishes to dismissed student loan chief Ronald Harrison in his new career in the Scottish catering industry. The good news is that early indications that his new employers are not following...
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All dressed up with nowhere to go
(Photograph) - All dressed up with nowhere to go: Opera students Emma Turnbull and Douglas Telfer from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, in costume for Le Mariage aux...
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Bar School unveils fees hike
The Bar School has announced a 30 per cent increase in fees for its 1995/96 vocational course as it prepares to lose its training monopoly. The move is likely to plunge the school into further...
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Double blow for teacher trainers
Teacher training heads say the funding system brought in by the new Teacher Training Agency will hit them with a "double whammy". Allocations announced last month have been based on so-called "...
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Internet text
The National Commission on Education report, Learning to Succeed - After 16, reported in this week's Further Education Synthesis, page iv, is available in full via The THES Internet Service. It can...
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Making friends
Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Scotland, this week launched an initiative aimed at building stronger links between industry, colleges and schools and encouraging young people into manufacturing...
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GPs lured to research
General practitioners should be enticed into academic research by means of "distinction awards" given to those who reach a senior level, according to the higher education funding councils and the...
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Stronger Link
An Pounds 8 million research programme on biological catalysts, less red tape in processing bids for funds and a board to oversee schemes are among the key features unveiled this week by the...
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Political scientists getting younger
Political scientists are getting younger and more women are entering the profession, but short-term contracts are continuing to gain ground. These trends emerge clearly from the latest survey of the...
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Dolly doldrums
(Photograph) - Dolly doldrums: a mysterious disease afflicting collectors' valuable dolls made in the 1940s and 1950s, which made them buckle, bloat and build up a brown sticky liquid, has been cured...
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Buffer demand
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council or a similar buffer body should still continue under a Scottish parliament, according to the Association of University Teachers Scotland. Its submission...