Light relief for star gazers
Cambridge astronomers, who have been battling with the sports fraternity over proposed floodlights at the university's new athletics track, have reached a compromise. But a further battle looms over...
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First among equals
Mutual regard appears to be crossing the old binary divide in some profusion among the membership of the Association of Business Schools. At merger time a year or two back, one or two of the more...
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Row flares over Queen's pay-outs
Queen's University Belfast, has been asked by a senior graduate to come clean over the high cost of compensation pay-outs. Alex Attwood, vice chairman of the university's graduate association, said...
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Mixed message on vocational parity
The campaign to win parity of esteem with A levels for vocational qualifications was in jeopardy this week after an international audience of educationists in Brighton. Ministers from different...
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Crash padding
Universities may have trouble coping with the Government's go-stop student number policy, but their spokespeople have adjusted with ease. Two or three autumns ago The THES would have been deluged...
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Trickie Dickies
The latest issue of Scot-Rail's magazine Horizon has a two-page article on how to survive the trauma of entering higher education north of the border. It includes the following canny advice: "If you...
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Teesside tee hee
Never ones to miss out on a craze, the University of Teesside -- the people who brought you adverts in Viz and the peculiar exploits of Teesside Ted and his toilet duck -- have sent out a "Magic Eye...
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Bar none
Should any of the "Magic Eye" slogans suggest that Teesside errs on the convivial side (Antithesis's eyesight conforming to professional norms, we are unable to ascertain this ourselves), they are in...
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On the spot
Just as well the National Union of Students operates with a fair degree of openness, or journalists who spent last Tuesday morning seeking president Jim Murphy's views on the Labour Party's Learning...
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Applied truths
Feedback, the newsletter of Dundee University's department of applied physics and electronic and mechanical engineering, has been plundering the American journal Manufacturing Engineering for one-...
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Don't even think it
The embezzling organiser of a fund for philosophers portrayed in Tibor Fischer's The Getaway Lunch provides Sideswipe no 89: "There are those who will say I was blocking those with talent from...
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION Lynn McLean, a fourth-year student at Paisley University is seeking information and sources of information for her research project entitled "Physical education can promote/aid...
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Davies rises in Shadow shuffle
Higher education spokesman Bryan Davies has been promoted within Labour's shadow team. Mr Davies, who succeeded Jeff Rooker in the role last year, was given shadow minister status in the reshuffle...
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Channel spoil heap transformed into grassland
Ecologists have turned a four-million-tonne pile of spoil from the Channel Tunnel into a grassland which they hope will become an important conservation area. The idea, to build a big platform at the...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. A disastrous start: because of the rail dispute I missed the Heathrow British Airways morning flight to Moscow. Failure to negotiate a transfer to Aeroflot was a relief: instead made an...