Healthy smells
There has been something in the air at Liverpool John Moores University over the past three months. Fifty lecturers, technicians and research students in the school of biomolecular sciences have been...
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Dad makes big league
Fresh evidence of the incomparable glamour of academic life. Management Charter Initiative chief Tom Cannon confides triumphantly that he has finally attained street credibility in the eyes of his...
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Dead on arrival
Professor Cannon isn't the only member of academia's football tendency to have received an accolade recently. Stefan Szymanski of Imperial College, who has applied "company architecture" theories to...
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Learned lovers
While Britain was agog over the infidelity of foreign secretary Robin Cook, New York has been excited by the far more contested private life of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. As with the Cook affair (...
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Museum cashes in on sale of art copies
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has signed an agreement with the Bridgeman Art Library in London to sell images of some of its most famous artefacts. Under the three-year arrangement access to the...
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Funding councils offer accounting guidelines
SENIOR managers in higher education need a framework for working out the cost of what happens in their institutions, new funding council guidelines state. The guidelines, produced jointly by the...
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Do the plugged-in opt out?
Hundreds of students at Loughborough University are to be the focus of research exploring "virtual living and learning" in higher education. Project leader Charles Crook said the work would exploit...
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Union claims institute
THE ASSOCIATION of University Teachers wants lecturers to set the standards for and run the higher education teaching accreditation scheme recommended in the Dearing report. The AUT's submission to...
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Sykes calls for Labour fee rethink
A DETAILED, independent financial analysis of the Government's proposals for student funding is urgently needed, according to Sir Richard Sykes, chairman and chief executive of pharmaceutical giant...
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CVCP finds significant gaps in many Dearing proposals
KEY QUESTIONS about short-term cash shortages and university freedom are still awaiting answers post-Dearing, say higher education policy developers. A detailed analysis of Sir Ron Dearing's report...
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Newcomer's stocks rise in bull market
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects The most popular of all degree subjects, business studies, has seen explosive...
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Courtly ways tempt suitors
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects The TV programmes This Life, Kavanagh QC and the usual fare of cops and robbers...
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Global player fails to attract English audience
As clearing gets under way, THES reporters look at what students can expect from the most and least popular subjects PORTUGUESE would appear to be one of the least popular subjects taught at British...
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Scholar seeks aid against death call
A TOP Egyptian scholar has appealed to academics around the world for help to fight what human rights groups claim is a death sentence on him and his wife. Nasr Hamed Abu-Zeid made his plea on the...
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Black colleges aim for quality
BLACK institutions in South Africa are being urged to become "development universities", geared to meeting the needs of disadvantaged communities, rather than emulating their globalising white...