Federal Wales faces role row
The University of Wales is bracing itself for a new internal wrangle over its federal role. Heads of some of its largest and most influential constituent institutions are backing calls for another...
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A payslip too far for an impoverished professor
Ekpo Ekpeyong, one of Nigeria's leading professors of medicine, was torn between a crucial emergency meeting of the university teachers' union and lecturing his final-year students. An apolitical...
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Bright sparks
Fears that students are failing to learn basic skills appear to be confirmed by an unsuccessful charity stunt at Aberdeen University. The students planned to walk over hot coals to raise funds for...
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Bad dream
(Photograph) - Bad dream: A woman stands holding examples of aborigine artwork after torrential rain ruined homes near Mt Stanley, Australia. The decision to uphold Eddie Mabo's ancestral claim to...
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Uncowed bearer of bad news
Lucy Hodges talks to Richard Lacey, the blunt scientist who told the Government what it did not want to hear about BSE Richard Lacey is wearing a loud red tie depicting cows' heads. He enjoys the...
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What the other experts predict: Labour to win, just
Must Labour lose? The question was so widely asked after the party's third consecutive general election defeat in 1959 that it became the title of a well-known work of political analysis. Natural,...
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Bloomsbury grouping set fair for millennium
The British Museum has edged closer to its cherished aim of housing its collections in one location after receiving Pounds 8.1 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Elaine Williams reports. The...
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The fat controllers
Calorie-free crisps and tasty vegetables will one day make society slimmer and food industry profits fatter. But are they safe? Aisling Irwin reports. Picture the fat American, that stereotype in...
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Accusations fly in Flick gift fiasco
Oxford University fundraising could suffer following the public debacle over the controversial Flick professorship. University spokesmen say that the sudden decision by Gert-Rudolf Flick, grandson of...
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Research cash only for elite
The leading British academies have called for the dissolution of the sacrosanct link between research and teaching. They warn that it is the only way to avoid the demise of university research. In a...
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Bomb threatens Florida exams
Despite the arrest of the alleged Unabomber, who mail-bombed colleges and professors, universities in the United States are continuing to treat the threat of campus terrorism with extreme gravity....
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Fungi happening at the forum
An estimated 1.5 million species of fungi could greatly benefit medicine, industry and pollution control, according to the British Mycological Society, which held its centenary symposium at Sheffield...
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'Racist' IQ book withdrawn
A major publisher made the unprecedented move of withdrawing a book the day before publication this week following controversial comments by its author about IQ and race. A statement from Wiley said...
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Brian Fender
(Photograph) - Enough is enough: Brian Fender, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England told gloomy vice chancellors this week at the council's annual conference in Telford...
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V-c's FE appointment fuels merger talk
Further education's top job is to go to David Melville, vice chancellor of Middlesex University, who will take over as chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council, writes Alison Utley....