Harris takes CVCP chair
MARTIN Harris is to be the new chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. The Manchester University vice chancellor was elected unopposed and will take over from Gareth Roberts on...
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Taken for granted
The National Lottery Charities Board (THES, December 13) is prohibited from making grants to individuals. It can only give funds to charitable, philanthropic or benevolent bodies. Therefore,...
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Don's Diary
Friday Marge and I are picked up from Helsinki University, where I gave a presentation yesterday to catch the flight to Stockholm. On arrival we meet Nobel Foundation officials and Ulrike, the...
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Mahatma rises from the ashes
NOT MANY people outside South Africa would know that 1996 was the 50th anniversary of a passive resistance campaign started in Durban by Albert Luthuli (a citizen of KwaZulu Natal who later earned...
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Disabled set alarm bells ringing
LAST WEEK vice chancellors and principals met to discuss the impact of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act on universities and colleges. Only the week before, Unison members joined a mass lobby of...
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Honest scientist (batteries not included)
The chemistry department of a fictional English university and a sun battery provide the winning ingredients for a new play. Chris Johnston speaks to its writer and director Stephen Poliakoff The man...
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What button do you press to turn on tomorrow?
Science museums are now confronted by sophisticated visitors hankering after displays of nanofabrication, biotechnology and neutron beams. But how are curators more used to preserving the past going...
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Hungary for the truth
Gyorgy Litvan is history in the flesh. Jailed for his activities during the 1956 uprising, he is about to retire as director of the institute devoted to that turbulent time. Huw Richards spoke to him...
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Teacher courses run closure risk
FOUR higher education institutions face a 50 per cent cut in their teacher training intake and possible withdrawal of accreditation under the Teacher Training Agency's new allocations system, it was...
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Agency for Higher Education
There should be the "closest possible" co-operation on quality assurance between the proposed new single quality agency for higher education and the Teacher Training Agency, the final report of the...
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Catholic prize splits Polish scholars
THE Polish academic world is at loggerheads because of an attack on one of its best-known scholars, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, by ten academics at the Catholic University of Lublin. Professor...
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Welsh lose out in Budget
WELSH universities and colleges have been hit by budget cuts, which will leave them more than Pounds 300 per student poorer than English institutions. There was no sign of a share for Welsh further...
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Human geography project leader
Staffordshire's division of geography is undertaking a three-year Pounds 200,000 project for the Health and Safety Executive examining perceptions of risk in people who live near chemical plants....
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Head of cellular toxicology unit
Professor Atterwill regards the setting up of the cellular toxicology unit at the biosciences department as one of its major achievements. The unit studies diseases caused by cell damage and develops...
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The Lyons share of cognition
The city of Lyons has been chosen as the site for France's first major research centre for cognitive sciences. The Pounds 5 million project for the future Institut des Sciences Cognitives is being...