Glasgow students vote to kick out Kemp
Ross Kemp, the student-elected rector of Glasgow University, has been asked to resign because he did not give a freshers' week address for the second year running. Questioning his commitment to the...
Search
-
-
On the move
Members of the national council of the Learning and Skills Council, announced this week, are: Chris Banks, managing director of Coca-Cola Great Britain; Chris Humphries, director-general of the...
-
Glittering prizes
Patrick Moore has been presented with a special Millennium Award in the form of a sundial by the Royal Astronomical Society , in recognition of his outstanding contribution to astronomy. The Globe...
-
Knights are drawing in
Beady eyes were trying to identify who had purchased a new suit at a reception held this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Today is the deadline for applications to succeed...
-
Ministerial doubts
Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, is obviously sceptical about collaboration between universities. Sir Alan Langlands, principal of Dundee University,...
-
Cash-strapped history
Edinburgh University, which has just unveiled radical plans to combat dwindling government funding, is no stranger to financial privations. The foundation stone of its 18th-century Old College was...
-
In the news
If 15 researchers take one day to process 1,000 questionnaires, how long before they reach a million? Four years and ten tons of paper, according to Valerie Beral , principal investigator of the...
-
Wales Institute goes for economic growth
The Welsh Institute for Research into Cooperatives is being established at the University of Wales Institute. The institute aims to achieve sustainable economic growth in deprived areas. It will work...
-
Plant rage may uproot experts
One in four senior scientists involved with genetically modified plants has considered quitting the United Kingdom because of perceived national feeling against the technology, according to a THES...
-
Connexions launches to give youth guidance
A new guidance service for teenagers to be launched on Monday will encourage more people into further and higher education. The Connexions service for 13 to 19-year-olds integrates existing careers...
-
Vienna
University and school students demonstrated in the Austrian capital and other university cities last week at government plans to introduce fees from the 2001-02 academic year.
-
Washington DC
A federal jury has awarded damages of $2 million (£1.4 million) to a woman footballer who claimed discrimination when Duke University dropped her from its football team.
-
Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES Valentine Cunningham and Ron Cooke debated the past and present states of our universities Martyn Hammersley. Professor of educational and social research Open University What a...
-
Has the GM backlash blighted British botany?
The debate over genetically modified crops has had a big impact - but what has it meant for plant scientists? In a THES survey, Steve Farrar polled the experts' opinions. It is a time of unparalleled...
-
Cold comfort in chicken soup
It seems that granny was right all along - chicken soup is really good for colds. A study by a team of scientists at Nebraska Medical Center in the United States has found that the broth contains...