Cannon blast
If you want to get ahead - get a hat. Perhaps that old slogan really is true. Tom Cannon has more hats than Ladies Day at Ascot. And, following his roles as director of Manchester Business School,...
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Fast-growing oak holds fertiliser key
A Dundee University botanist is going to Australia to study the roots of an unusual tree, after beating competition from 12 Commonwealth countries for a scholarship from the Association of Rhodes...
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Looking back from the future
Dear Ron... In the fifth of our series of open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, Patrick Coldstream, (left) takes a look at the future from a vantage point in the...
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Hi-tech's borderline
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has released the results of a study showing that in the past 15 years the disparities between rich and poor have not been reduced. In fact, they have...
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Cambridge gets set for a terminal battle
Cambridge University students are preparing to mount a major campaign to ensure the Easter term is extended by one week. But bursars of the 34 Cambridge colleges are opposed to extending the term...
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Shuffle off
John Winfield, convener of Glasgow University's safety and environmental committee, acknowledges that "shafts of wit and humour" are always welcome in the university newsletter reports of court and...
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Licence to thrill runs out after four films
While diamonds are forever, Bond actors tend to lose their shine after the fourth appearance, according to research by a university economist. Mark Baimbridge, a lecturer at Bradford University,...
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Oxford management school's history lessons
In 1990, congregation, the parliament of Oxford University, passed a resolution establishing the school of management studies. This followed widespread discussion in the university stimulated by two...
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Going private on a public matter
One of the fundamental planks in Government policy has been that increases in real incomes have to be earned. Gone are the days when there would be an inexorable rise in living standards, regardless...
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Call for medical contract
A new "contract" between patients, doctors and medicines' regulators is needed to improve communication about the safety of different medicines, according to a new study, writes Kam Patel. Expert and...
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Ranks of ethnic students swollen
More black and Asian students are going to university than ever before, but they apply to a smaller number of universities and a narrower range of courses than their white peers, according to new...
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Return of the natives
Lions, buffalos, elephants, rhinos and leopards - the "big five" as they are known in conservation circles - could once again prosper on the game parks of Mozambique if a major research contract...
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Oxford management school's history lessons
It was good of Alexander Murray to provide such obvious target practice. His tone of high seriousness barely concealed some pretty ill-informed prejudices. The damning with faint praise of management...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. The 30th undergraduate intake of my career and I find myself singing a Rolling Stones' number - "This could be the last time". There must be a better way of admitting students. The...
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Hooray for Henley
A switch in ministerial responsibilities at the Department for Education and Employment has left Lord Henley looking after higher education. Eric Forth, the former higher education minister, now has...