V-Cs urge tax relief
A call for tax changes forms the element of surprise in an otherwise familiar set of concerns expressed in the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals public spending submission, released this...
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Members reveal few interests
There are few hostages to fortune in the declarations of education and employment frontbenchers to the House of Commons register of members' interests, issued this week, writes Huw Richards. Gillian...
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Particle explosion
If only by virtue of their discipline you might expect particle physicists to be a fragmentary lot, rarely coalescing. But the opposite appears to be true. Following on from their amazing collective...
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Venerable Viennese
Coming soon to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, a day-long seminar on Austria and Central Europe starring Austria's former deputy chancellor Erhard Busek. Should pull in the social...
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Man at work
This portrait of plant boilerman Michael Bailey is part of an exhibition to mark the centenary of Salford University and University College, Salford. A mosaic of more than 6,000 photos of staff and...
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Ray of light for breast cancer scans
Breast-screening could in the future be done without X-rays using a technique that is as harmless as a reading lamp, a conference heard last month. The screening harnesses rays that are just beyond...
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Samurai in Scotland
A memorandum of agreement to promote education and research collaboration bet- ween Strathclyde and Tokyo Universities might not sound the raciest of news, but it has uncovered an intriguing tale of...
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In a glass of their own
The extremely hard behind-the-scenes work that has gone into making Strathclyde University's bicentenary a success may not be generally recognised. But the university newsletter is at least giving...
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Blinded by science
Metaphors for divine intervention abounded at the God and Science conference held by King's College London's Centre for Philosophical Studies last week. The more empirically minded delegates hunted...
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Taking Ambridge
Great excitement among radio soap listeners at Heriot-Watt University at the appointment of John Archer as the next vice chancellor, with fans of Radio 4's venerable chronicle of country folk...
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Medical record
Alumnus to be proud of no 47 is Brian Mawhinney, the mild-mannered and conciliatory Conservative Party chairman, whose efforts to raise the tone of political debate have been so appreciated in recent...
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'Closure by deceit' claim over axed MSc
Staff and students in Edinburgh University's beleaguered centre for human ecology have accused university management of attempting "closure by deceit" in axing its MSc course. They claim the CHE has...
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Quality-funds link fear
College heads are alarmed at indications that the English funding council is paving the way towards a direct link between quality judgements and funding. In a written version of his speech to last...
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Foreign language teaching tips swap
A Government-funded knowledge exchange has been created to disseminate best practice in foreign language teaching in the workplace. The Network in Vocational Foreign Languages, dubbed Hevocal, is a...
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Privatised focus for Royal stargazers
The Royal Observatories could be privatised and the management of the United Kingdom's overseas telescopes in Hawaii and the Canary Islands should be contracted out, according to a review and as...