Unions clash on mergers
A membership war between the two leading trade unions in higher education is set to explode unless a major disagreement over bargaining rights and recognition when smaller institutions merge with...
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Future imperative: The Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in Paris
(Photograph) - Future imperative: The Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in Paris. Last weekend 15,000 students from all over France crowded into the university to cross question a glittering array...
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Redundancy looms at Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths College is asking for voluntary staff redundancy to prepare for the next academic year, when the Higher Education Funding Council safety net which has protected it is withdrawn. Earlier...
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Funds row threatens space project
The British leader of a Europe-wide space project now under threat says that the United Kingdom will be reduced to "hang-ing onto people's coat tails" if problems in space research funding are not...
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Reluctance to `green' speaks volumes
The "greening" of the higher education curriculum is being resisted because it is seen as a form of political correctness although activists in other areas influence the curriculum unchallenged...
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Peer review found lacking
A Dutch study to be unveiled next week in London will propose a radical approach to defining and assessing research to address the changing relationship between science, technology and society. The...
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Pulling Power
(Photograph) - Pulling Power: Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, the former Black Panther who hijacked a plane to escape an FBI shoot-to-kill order, was given a standing ovation when he spoke at the London School...
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Quarrels with a quarry
Religion is to be invoked in the fight against a superquarry on the Hebridean island of Harris. Alastair McIntosh of Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology plans to argue about the integrity...
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Blueprint for a brighter future
Education is the most important thing of all. With it you can get a job and move up the social ladder." I heard these words spoken by Nadia, a sixth-former, when, as chair of the Commission on Social...
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Labour banks on credit rating
The commission states: "The challenge for the 21st century is to extend high standards to far more people." Changes in funding: "The present structure and funding of universities simply cannot cope...
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Lay panel to witnesses academic witnesses
The latest initiative in the furthering of public understanding of science is the first British consensus conference, in which lay people give a verdict on a controversial public issue. It begins...
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Market threatens variety in care policy
The Government's reorganisation of community care is threatening the survival of small care organisations and is based on an oversimplistic view of the public and private sectors, according to...
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London flood risk rises
London's resistance to flooding is deteriorating because of ever increasing development on its flood plains, according to research being carried out at Middlesex University. In a lecture last week,...
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Sensor sniffs out heroin
Scientists at Cambridge University have developed a biological sensor for detecting heroin which can identify individual particles of the drug measuring just thousandths of a millimetre. The work at...
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Bugs get the chop on wood
Chopping boards could hold the key to a better understanding of food poisoning, says a microbiologist at Leeds Metropolitan University. Government figures released last week show that food poisoning...