Kiwi fruit
Also due a good rating, in this case for inspired timing, is the University of Ulster and its sports scholarship programme. News of its Guinness sponsorship might have prompted much irony, had it not...
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Thanks, but no thanks
Now the dust has settled over the question of the next secretary-general of the United Nations, we can reveal one name that was not going to get very far, at least if its owner had anything to do...
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Frozen out?
Dundee University's staff news-letter Contact normally includes a column from the principal, Ian Graham-Bryce. But when the latest issue was being produced, the principal was in Antarctica convening...
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Mersey beat
Alumnus to be proud of No 82 is Mr C. H. Tung, a Liverpool University graduate in marine engineering whose appointment as the first chief executive of Hong Kong under Chinese rule is so deplorably...
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Cannadine heads back
David Cannadine, one of the highest profile historians to have joined the brain drain to the United States, is to return to Britain in 1998. Professor Cannadine, 46, currently Moore Collegiate...
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Full metal jacket
(Photograph) - John Husband was so fed up with his wife demanding he bin his favourite 20 year-old jacket that he sculpted it on a course at Telford College, Edinburgh. It will stand in his hallway.
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Imperial seeks Pounds 1m for CFD research
The Medical Research Council may fund scientists at Imperial College, London Pounds 1 million to research into Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A final decision on funding awaits the science budget...
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Cuts threaten bacteria fight
Scientists at the United Kingdom's leading food research establishment have warned that Government cuts in funding threaten their future ability to respond to crisis such as the recent outbreak of E....
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Student vote 'not decisive' on poll
The student vote is unlikely to be a decisive factor in setting next year's general election date, says a leading electoral expert. Recent reports have suggested that the Prime Minister might pick...
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Embassy bombers link denied
TWO British universities have vehemently denied teaching students how to make bombs following the jailing this week of two Palestinian former students for 20 years for plotting the 1994 bombings of...
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Scotland heads for FE bursary crisis
MORE than 100 students who faced the prospect of quitting Clydebank College because its bursary funds had run out have won a reprieve. The Scottish Office has agreed to speed up payments from the...
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Gulf syndrome probed
MAJOR Ian Hill went to the Gulf as a healthy theatre superintendent. Within days he was confined to a hospital bed. Now his family say he is dying. No one doubts that Major Hill and possibly up to 2,...
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Students face tough Xmas
CHRISTMAS and New Year is a busy time for Georgina Watts. Manager of the University of Central England's student union advice centre, she says that the number of hardship cases peaks after Christmas...
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Rooftop protests at Stoke
STAFF and students at Stoke-on-Trent College are demanding to know how internal and external audits failed to spot a 20 per cent shortfall in students. Governors were expected to report last night on...
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... and getting better at Staffordshire
Geography: Staffordshire Unversity, 1992 rating: 1, 1996 rating: 2 Scoring low in the RAE would be enough to make some departments pack up their microscopes and go home, but the division of geography...