Prescription for ambition
Among current research being carried out in the nursing department at Liverpool University is an evaluation of new innovations in nursing practice. The relative success of a pilot project in which...
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Shakespeare at the movies
The two principal areas of research now helping English at De Montfort on its way have concentrated on examination of text adaptations for the screen and editing primary texts for publication. The...
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Panel games
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES. "IT WAS one hell of an exercise," said Cary Cooper of UMIST, chairman of the business and management studies panel. "It took up a lot of academic time, but I think...
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Shadow doubts
SUBJECT ASSOCIATIONS. JUDGEMENTS made by the politics and international studies panel in the research assessment exercise have been largely endorsed by the Political Studies Association shadow panel...
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RAE pulled puppeteer's strings
The deadlines and practical requirements of the RAE had a direct impact on the work of Penny Francis, the school's puppetry tutor. She had to act fast to pull together A History of European Puppetry...
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Condition improving
NURSING: LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY 1992 rating: 3 1996 rating: 3a A rapid turn around of staff at Liverpool University's nursing department may have taken its toll in respect of research ratings. Karen...
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Means test switch to hit 60,000 students
REFORMS to Australia's financial support scheme, Austudy, will hit thousands of potential students, according to researchers at Monash University in Melbourne. Their investigation indicates that more...
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Malaysia gives Telekom go-ahead
UNIVERSITY Telekom (Unitel), Malaysia's first private university, is set for its first intake of 120 students in May 1997. Unitel will offer courses in computer engineering, software engineering,...
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Coalition keeps cut in subsidy
NEW ZEALAND's new coalition government offers little prospect of immediate funding relief for higher education despite the promise of an extra NZ$637 million (Pounds 1 million) over the next three...
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Otago staff accept voluntary pay-offs
THE University of Otago is to lose 89 staff through voluntary redundancies this year as it grapples with a projected NZ$7 million (Pounds 3 million) budget deficit. The job losses are the result of a...
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Emigres find jobs in France
Since 1992 nearly 1,000 academics have left Algeria to settle in France. Some fled direct terrorist threats while others preferred to "move away for a while until the situation calms down". Even in...
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Algerian strikers stay out
MANY strike-hit universities in Algeria failed to reopen in the New Year despite triumphant claims by the authorities of a "progressive resumption of work". Since the end of October most universities...
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Lecturers' union leader sacked in dispute
EIGHT Nigerian university lecturers who were active in the six-month strike that ended in September have been sacked and evicted from their tied accommodation. The lecturers, including Assisi Asobie...
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Minister dilutes threat to freedom
IRISH minister Niamh Bhreathnach has tabled over 100 amendments to her heavily criticised universities' bill. The amendments take up 16 pages, more than half the length of the original bill. They...
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Young designers taste haute couture
FRENCH luxury goods companies have launched two projects aimed at finding talented students who can bring new ideas to a sector steeped in tradition. The 75 fashion houses, jewellers, perfume and...