Grant pledge snub
The Government came under fire from local authorities and education charities this week for breaking a promise to review discretionary awards before the New Year. Information issued recently by the...
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There she blows
(Photograph) - The Royal Yachting Association's Seamanship Foundation has donated six Hunter Duette yachts to Southampton Institute to run the Young Skippers scheme. They are just part of a donation...
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Gene genius
Two British researchers are among the winners of the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine. Robin Lovell-Badge of the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research and Peter...
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Surplus millions
Southampton University's annual surplus more than doubled in the academic year 1993/94, rising from Pounds 3.5 million to Pounds 8.1 million. Pounds 2.3 million came from the release of an over-...
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Oz option
The Labour Party's favoured option for a student charge is a system based on the Australian higher education contribution scheme, under which each student pays a portion of their tuition costs...
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Oxford loses scholar
Philip Alexander, president of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, rocked in recent months by a row over Yiddish studies, has resigned to return to Manchester University. Professor...
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THES taps into academic interest on the Net
The majority of British academics, even in the least technological disciplines, are users of advanced computer-based communications technology, according to a THES survey of readers. More than 85 per...
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V-cs favour HEQC
Vice chancellors want a new quality regime based on the "success" of the Higher Education Quality Council rather than the "mess" presided over by the Higher Education Funding Council for England....
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Noah's arc
(Photograph) - The Tyne Bridge makes an unfamiliar background for Mongezi Noah, a lecturer from South Africa's Fort Hare University studying for a doctorate at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College...
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Quality official predicts failures
More universities will face the prospect of departments receiving the equivalent of "unsatisfactory" quality gradings when the Higher Education Funding Council for England introduces its new system...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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Granting last wishes
Clive Seale tells why he hopes to provide some hard evidence in the tricky debate about euthanasia What do people want as they approach the end of their lives? If they are in serious pain or unable...
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A 'zing' of truth
Scientists seek objective reality, but, argues Steven Weinberg, although that is a social process it does not make the end product a social construct. Standing in a bookshop in Harvard Square a...
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Warring faction
Wole Soyinka's outspokenness remains undiminished since becoming Africa's first Nobel literature laureate, as found out. No sooner had the freshly escaped Wole Soyinka begun to address a packed press...
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Surfing on the waves from Durham
Scientists concerned about science's relationship with society feel that those best placed to illuminate it are studying irrelevant issues instead. Meanwhile, sociologists say they already have...