Enchant our sense not sentimentality
I have mixed feelings about the reconstructed Globe theatre. I support the project, but at a recent performance I was struck by the dangerous historical sentimentality of it all. This was a building...
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In Goebbel's shadow
Tim Cornwell reports on the furore surrounding a former Third Reich propagandist who became one of the world's top pollsters To reach into the darkness to find the Jew who is hiding behind the...
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Armed forces seize books
Lagos. ARMED Nigerian security police have swooped on a university lecturer and his students as they tried to buy books by executed civil rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa in the oil city of Port...
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Money can be better spent
NO What will Welsh devolution mean for higher education? Derec Llwyd Morgan and Nicholas Bourne disagree THE White Paper proposes a directly elected Assembly to assume responsibility for policies and...
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Assembly will stir real change
YES What will Welsh devolution mean for higher education? Derec Llwyd Morgan and Nicholas Bourne disagree THE Government's White Paper on its proposals for a Welsh assembly states simply that "a...
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Woodhead's opponents
ROGER Murphy: dean of education at the University of Nottingham, and last year's president of the British Educational Research Association. Professor Murphy sparked the response to the Woodhead camp...
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Record contract:Computer Books
The University of London Computing Centre and the University of London Library have won the major contract for the Public Record Office's digital archive project, which promises improved access to...
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Teachnology:Computer Books
Educationists and computing specialists at the University of Huddersfield are launching a culture-crossing MSc programme in multimedia and education this month.
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V-cs bank on cash boost
VICE CHANCELLORS have no fall-back plans if ministers fail to come up with more cash for higher education by the end of the year, it emerged this week. In one of the last chances to influence funding...
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Fears of university money troubles
Fears of university money troubles next year were fuelled this week by news from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service of an overall increase in student numbers. UCAS was expecting an...
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Yes vote threat to Ron's vision
WELSH voters will be asked next week to back devolution proposals which jeopardise a pioneering approach to funding strongly endorsed in the Dearing report on the future of higher education. Sir Ron...
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Radioactive alert at Royal Holloway
THE Environment Agency has ordered Royal Holloway College to stop accumulating radioactive waste on its campus at Egham, Surrey. An enforcement notice was issued after a routine inspection last month...
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CBI urges tardy companies to get hitched
The Confederation of British Industry has redoubled efforts to encourage reluctant firms into research partnerships with universities. This week, in partnership with the Department of Trade and...
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London Tec nets Pounds 1.7m Euro grant
Central London's Training and Enterprise Council, Focus Central London, has won a Pounds 1.7 million grant from the European Social Fund's Adapt programme. The programme, helping small firms to adapt...
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Wellcome gives fillip to Irish medicine
BIOMEDICAL research in Ireland has been boosted by the Wellcome Trust's decision to provide up to Pounds 1 million for "new blood" fellowships, equipment grants and start-up grants for lecturers in...