Past Masters
David Weatherall pays tribute to the man who asked him to eat asparagus in the name of research, Cyril Clarke When I obtained my medical degree from Liverpool University in 1956 I was, as cell...
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First and last
(Photograph) - First and last: the launch of Inter-Arc, an electronic media network that forms part of the Arc Atlantique project promoting tourism, maritime communications and the environment, took...
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Debt, doubt and diversity
Jim Murphy says the commission has identified the right problems but wants to talk about the answers. It was on a fanfare of publicity that the Commission for Social Justice report was launched....
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Grants
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST Research grants Richard Breen, Pounds 183,280 from the Economic and Social Research Council (social mobility, political preferences, attitudes and behaviour in Northern...
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Events
VOLTAIRE'S CONTEMPORARIES The Eldon Gallery at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is exhibiting 18th-century drawings in the lifetime of Voltaire. The exhibition, which includes work by Watteau, J-B Greuze...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF KEELE Gary Kelly, professor of English, University of Alberta, and Edward Larrissy, senior lecturer in English at Keele, have received professorships. HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY Philip...
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Fellowships
University of Bradford John Gardiner, head of the department of electrical and electronic engineering. University of Glamorgan Simon Weston, Falklands veteran, holder of Man of the Decade 1989; Hywel...
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Awards
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS T. Brooke Benjamin, Sedleian professor of natural philosophy, University of Oxford, has been named honorary member of ASME. He will receive the award at the...
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When the status quo is not an option
Where else would I get the opportunity to go to university at 37 and use that experience to change my career direction completely?" Bruce Nicol would say that, wouldn't he -- he is management...
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Blue chip partnership
The University of Nottingham makes millions of pounds from industry Colin Campbell explains. Recently it was announced that the University of Nottingham, with an annual income of Pounds 6.3 million,...
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Myriad of `other sources' fill funding breach
Since the early 1980s, when vice chancellors turned increasingly to a myriad of so-called "other sources" of income after the first Thatcher government sanctioned a 17 per cent squeeze on central...
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Under-exploited assets
As we head for the "knowledge society" of the 21st century, British universities seem only half awake, argues Sir Geoffrey Holland. The National Advisory Council on Education and Training Targets is...
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Cheque-book education
Ngaio Crequer traces the snap, crackle and pop of universities' attachment to Mammon. Universities that receive money from breakfast cereal foundations may raise eyebrows, but there is a long...
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Students to fight pay-later proposals
The Labour leadership of the National Union of Students will resist proposals outlined by the party-linked Commission on Social Justice for charging students. Jim Murphy, NUS president, said there...
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Hong Kong professions fear China degrees
Members of a China-appointed advisory committee have accused the Hong Kong government of discriminating against holders of Chinese university degrees. They want Chinese qualifications to be...