Gas fired
(Photograph) - Gas fired: Susan Triesman (centre), director of Strathclyde University's Ramshorn Theatre and sister of David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers,...
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Europe looks to student market
British vice chancellors and principals are much more optimistic than their continental peers that student numbers will grow beyond the year 2000, a pan-European survey has found. Out of 30...
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'Teacup professor' arrested
An architecture professor at the University of Florence has been charged with passing students in examinations in exchange for luxury household goods. Investigators who searched the home of Carlo De...
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Graduate pleads for library pass
YOUR correspondent, (THES, December 19) who complains that the new British Library at St Pancras generates noise making it hard to study is clearly not a veteran Library user. For the old guard any...
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Awards
The Beacon Awards Programme The following colleges received awards for their educational programmes for 1997/98 at the Association of Colleges conference in Harrogate: Aon Award for Adult Lifetime...
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Snow business
Christmas greetings to all - especially at the University of Sussex, where seasonal feebleness set in as long ago as the 17th. Vice chancellor Gordon Conway shut the place at noon because of the snow...
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Christmas fear
Glasgow Caledonian University has had a particularly eventful year, firing its principal, Stan Mason, for gross misconduct, and now awaiting a report from the National Audit Office on possible misuse...
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Fact file
* Of the 126,582 academic staff at United Kingdom institutions: * 9,097 are professors * 20,946 are senior lecturers and researchers * 51,110 are lecturers * 33,562 are researchers * 11,867 are other...
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Dream on
(Photograph) - Dream on: inmates of HMP The Verne rehearse for a A Chance to Dream, their own musical version of Hamlet. The project is being co-cordinated by Andy Baker, a music animator for the...
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Appointments
South West Arts David Brierley, former general manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company, member of several Arts Council committees and its lottery panel and chairman of the stabilisation committee,...
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Seven in race for doctors
AT LEAST seven universities are planning to take medical students to cash in on expected growth. Earlier this month the Medical Work Force Standing Advisory Committee recommended Britain train 1,000...
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Clinical academics lose research funds
CLINICAL academics were this week counting the personal cost of a Pounds 10 million cut to NHS research and development funding. A large number of hospital trusts where research is undertaken lost...
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Welcome for bill
THE SCOTLAND bill to establish a Scottish parliament, published last week, made only a passing reference to tertiary education in a curt mention of research councils. The bill concentrates on the...
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Internet
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, now has a new service for subscribers. A complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 is available to all subscribers to the newspaper, who...
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Lords query loan law plans
PEERS have questioned apparent contradictions between the government's proposed legislation for selling off existing student loan debt and that ushering in income-contingent loans and tuition fees....