Watchdog or poodle?
Education secretary David Blunkett may be blind but his insight is certainly undimmed. This much was clear when he cut Margaret Hodge short during Tuesday's education and employment committee hearing...
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Dundomin'?
Critics of dome secretary Peter Mandelson's handling of the Greenwich project will be praying Tony Blair's threatened reshuffle really does mean Mandy getting booted upstairs to take over as culture...
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High impact
Glasgow University lecturer Ron Thomson has been campaigning for improved campus road safety. He is deeply concerned about the risks to pedestrians from vehicles at one particular junction. Dr...
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Liaison dangereuse
A conference of European liaison officers at Nottingham Trent University had an unusual after-dinner speech from Robert Ayres, the university's professor of the performing arts. Dressed in his...
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Awards
University of Strathclyde Neville Baker, department of mechanical engineering, has been awarded the higher doctorate degree, doctor of science, for his work on processing, microstructure and...
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'How did you do it?' asked the client
Fluency with a toolkit of 2D and 3D applications is the secret of creative graphic art, says Fay Stephens The musician Frank Zappa once said: "The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can...
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Fertile ground
Ken Macaldowie, vice-chairman of Glasgow Caledonian University's court, has been giving evidence at an unfair dismissal hearing brought by former principal Stan Mason (see story above). He described...
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Draper's curtains
Alumnus to be proud of No 180 is that notorious unreconstructed leftist Derek Draper, whose modest assessment of his government connections and ability to influence them provided such entertainment...
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Natfhe claims 59 jobs face axe
Lecturers' union Natfhe has called for a public inquiry at Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education in Birmingham in anticipation of large-scale redundancies, writes Phil Baty. New...
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Investigator sidesteps tribunal
John Sizer, chief executive of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, has avoided giving evidence to an industrial tribunal on his investigation into mismanagement at Glasgow Caledonian...
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Don's Diary
Friday This may not be the best time to return to Bangladesh. The monsoon is only days away, the temperature is nearing 100, and the political climate is not much cooler. India has exploded five...
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British jury's out on food genetics
Europe is ploughing billions into biotechnology and bioscience. Alison Goddard and Kam Patel report THE government has named the steering group set up to monitor public anxiety about genetically...
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Cultivating concerns: Paul Lazzeri of the Integrated Approach to Crop Research-Rothamsted
Cultivating concerns: Paul Lazzeri of the Integrated Approach to Crop Research-Rothamsted with a display of genetically modified spring wheat at the Royal Agricultural Show in Stoneleigh,...
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British bosses like a bit of sauce with their lunch
BRITISH managers face the longest journeys to work and do not mind the occasional lunchtime chat about sex, according to a new study by an Oxford psychologist. Peter Collett's European Commission-...
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Between you and me, it's not really gossip
You either love it or you loathe it, but office gossip is rife in just about every organisation. Work psychologists have found that in the modern office "tittle-tattle" has been upgraded to career "...