'Ageing' centre rejected
The great and good of the world of ageing research have rejected calls for a national research centre in gerontology. At a meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine last month, 60 senior people...
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Sussex listed for Schindler grant
American film director Steven Spielberg has pledged $100,000 of the profits from his epic Holocaust movie Schindler's List to a new centre of German-Jewish studies at Sussex University. Spielberg...
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Graduates penalised by public sector
An MP has claimed that graduates are facing discrimination for public sector jobs in Northern Ireland. Robert McCartney, independent MP for North Down, said parents should think twice about sending...
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Freeze damages student halls
The record sub-zero temperatures which made Glasgow colder than Moscow have disrupted the start of term for hundreds of students and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage. Round the clock work...
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Arabian sights
Alumnus to be proud of no 26 is Sir Colin Chandler, chief executive of the arms manufacturer Vickers, who was at the centre of the controversy over Saudi arms deals and the presence in the United...
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Leeds emeritus professor rejects CBE
A prominent academic has turned down a CBE because he says the honours system perpetuates inequality and is undemocratic. Gordon McGregor, emeritus professor of education at Leeds University, who...
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Dundee's fight to become a university
By January 1964, six Scottish towns had made bids to house the country's next university: Stirling, Falkirk, Perth, Inverness, Dumfries and Ayr. But an emergency resolution from Dundee Council urged...
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Rift and squeeze in 1960s
Harold Wilson's Labour Government was still pretty new in late 1964 and so was the merged Department for Education and Science. Government papers newly released under the 30 year rule by the Public...
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A science outshone by soaps
Nicholas Tucker surveys the crisis in academic psychology. Psychology as a field of academic study presents an ambiguous front. Take-up among undergraduates is growing. Places in A-level courses are...
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Open sesame to young minds
Maire Messenger Davies examines TV's effect on children. Just before Christmas there was a lively press debate about a vicar in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire who told his flock not to encourage their...
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The art of being black
Claire Alexander goes in search of the complex identity of young black Britain that lies behind the popular stereotypes. In the wake of the recent wave of media infatuation, I have to confess that it...
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Dump it on the neighbours
Ragnar Lofstedt and Rae Zimmerman report on the rise of the environmental justice movement. North American academics have recently become extremely interested in a concept called "environmental...
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Science in a farewell to arms
Michael Atiyah arguesthat scientists have been compromised by the military- industrial complex, but by working for the elimination of nuclear weapons they can reassert their integrity. Last year saw...
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Single party mentality
Few governments, if any, in Asia encourage any form of opposition. At best it is seen as a necessary evil by established governments, including many of those in western countries. At worst in several...
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Elitists hostile to needs of masses
And so the New Year begins where the old left off. The future of higher education is again being heavily contested, with both the "how many?" and the "who pays?" arguments well to the fore. The media...