Prince of brains
We don't know which of the royals got the looks, but it seems from a newspaper report this week that Prince William got the brains. It reports that he is the cleverest-ever Windsor (a little like...
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Nurse for a day
Godliness can lead to a tranquil and placid existence even before the next life, if the experience of Ian Markham, professor of theology and public life at Liverpool Hope University College, is...
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Star wars
Yet more alleged skulduggery in the five-year saga over Cambridge University's plans to floodlight its sports ground against the wishes of local university astronomers - and residents - who insist...
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Doubting Thomas
The defection of Tom Wilson, former Association of University Teachers assistant general secretary, to Natfhe threatened problems for the Bett committee, set up to discuss academic pay and conditions...
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Unlawful conduct
Alumna to be proud of number 187 makes her second appearance in these columns on being sentenced to 15 months in the female unit of a men's jail in Aberdeen. It is one thing for a law graduate to go...
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Outrage at restructure for Queen's
More than 100 academics at Queen's University, Belfast have severely criticised a radical re-structuring plan and urged vice- chancellor George Bain to reconsider it. In a joint letter, they said it...
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Tiny team keeps tabs on the big spenders
Has the Higher Education Funding Council for England the power and money for the job, Phil Baty asks JUST seven auditors and two support staff at the Higher Education Funding Council for England are...
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Cash help for young luvvies
THE government is to launch a new support scheme for dance and drama students to resolve a recruitment crisis. A funding package expected to provide students at independent dance and drama schools...
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Childcare boost for student parents
Welsh further and higher education institutions are being urged to pay more attention to childcare as part of government moves to reduce the number of people claiming benefits. The organisation...
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Hope wings eternal for elderly exiles
The Wing Hong (Eternal Hope) Chinese centre in Glasgow is packed. Groups of elderly people are chatting to one another, a number of them keeping an eye on the elaborate preparations for lunch. Some...
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Golden opportunity
A Chinese academic is travelling to the University of Edinburgh to study the biological chemistry of gold drugs. Dr Juan Zou from Beijing has been granted Pounds 33,669 for a travelling research...
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Plastic on the waves
A scientist at the University of Southampton's department of ship science has joined with the Vosper Thornycroft shipyard to be the first to use fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) materials in high-speed...
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Expat pensioners 'happy'
The myth that older people suffer isolation, financial hardship and language difficulties overseas has been scotched by the findings of a British multi-disciplinary research team with expertise in...
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Fujimori health care plan sweetens budget
PAY rises for lecturers and professors at Peruvian state universities were ruled out this year by the president at the same time as he revealed the introduction of free health insurance for students...
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Gap year lures best brains
PHILLIPS Academy, founded during the American Revolution, is consistently rated one of the best high schools in the United States. Its students go on to the top colleges and universities. Thirty-one...