Don't bank on it
The world of finance has shown its harshest face to Richard Saville of the University of St Andrews, author of the 300th anniversary history of the Bank of Scotland. When he signed up to write it,...
Search
-
-
Golden oldies
Saville's father John - also a historian, this time at Hull - is the subject of the Antithesis summer competition. Now 81, he was entered for the research assessment exercise at the age of 80. (Both...
-
Hard pressed
The pressures to find a summer job appear to be affecting more than students these days. At last week's Scottish press conference on the Dearing report, Scottish committee chief Sir Ron Garrick...
-
CVCP upstaged
Dearing Day, last Wednesday, and the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals was determined to put on a damned good show. The vice squad's motorcade pulled up at the Intercontinental Hotel where...
-
Toe in the door
Alumnus to be proud of number 118 is a beacon of hope to unemployed ex-MPs. David Mellor, ex-minister and former MP for Putney, is probably too upset by the death of Sir James Goldsmith to gloat. But...
-
Monster heritage
(Photograph) - Monster heritage: a wooden replica of a stegosaurus, designed by Peter Long, seen above left with a colleague from Cambridge University's department of engineering, and built by local...
-
How crickets don't get stumped in the night
A ROBOTIC cricket with ears in its legs has been built by scientists who hope it will help them understand how its real-life equivalent finds a perfect partner. Nottingham University psychologist...
-
Student numbers in FE grow by 16%
THE NUMBER of full-time further education student numbers grew by a sixth and part-timers by nearly a third in one year, an official tally has revealed. The figures, from the Further Education...
-
Graduates have never had it so good, claims report
GRADUATE employment opportunities are better than ever, according to new figures. The Higher Education Statistics Agency revealed this week that "record numbers" of graduates entered jobs within six...
-
LSE links up with Moscow
THE LONDON School of Economics and Moscow's Higher School of Economics are jointly setting up a college to try to meet a severe shortage of specialists in market economics in Russia, writes Kam Patel...
-
Research pays dividend
UNIVERSITY companies charged with exploiting academic research doubled their income in just a year, according to an imminent study. Their gross income of Pounds 121 million in 1994/95 was twice that...
-
Scots at cutting edge get capital funding
SCOTTISH higher education institutions have won a Pounds 2 million boost for commercialising their research in science and technology. Scottish education minister Brian Wilson this week launched the...
-
Caledonian faces inquiry
GLASGOW Caledonian University has been accused of academic malpractice after it allowed a dozen students to resit their exams three times, writes Olga Wojtas. The university has condemned the...
-
Scottish higher education institutions extra funding
Scottish higher education institutions will win almost Pounds 1.5 million in extra funding next session to reward subjects rated as excellent in the 1996-97 quality assessments by the Scottish Higher...
-
Centenary booster in hunt for malaria vaccine
AUGUST 20 this year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most dramatic discoveries in medical science. Ronald Ross solved the so-called "malaria problem" by showing that the disease was...