Buildings check
The Educational Institute of Scotland is asking every college and new university to carry out a full health and safety inspection during January to investigate the impact of cuts in building and...
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Grant speed-up
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council awarded just over 1,800 research grants to a value of Pounds 246 million, according to its 1995-96 annual report. EPSRC chief executive Richard...
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Fresh funders
Six new appointments have been made to the Further Education Funding Council for England. They are Mary Curnock Cook, director of the British Institute of Innkeeping; Peter Elliott, chairman of...
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New script for stage training
The Arts Council is set to table plans for an interim scheme to boost funding for dance and drama training. The move follows a decision in October that the council would use National Lottery money to...
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Chill touch of the ghostly past
An eerie mystery is unfolding in the bowels of Queen's University, Belfast. Academics are baffled by things that not only go bump in the night, but during daytime as well. Staff have reported some...
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University of the Air made waves
IT WAS still known as the University of the Air, although its eventual title was contained in the first line of the draft white paper: "The Government has decided to establish a University of the Air...
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Architects defend law centre
AWARD-WINNING architects at the centre of a dispute with Cambridge University over "disastrous" noise levels at the university's new Pounds 21 million law faculty claim that a simple solution was...
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Scots slipped away in swinging sixties
THE UNIVERSITY Grants Committee offended Scottish Office sensibilities in 1965 with student allocations that fell short of the Robbins report's estimates of demand. Scottish Record Office files...
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Plenty of scientists with nothing to do
THERE IS no shortage of scientists and engineers in the United Kingdom, but inadequate research spending by the Government and industry is killing demand for them, according to Alan Smithers of...
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General depilation
Look out for sales of electric razors to rocket in the Bristol area should New Labour, complete with its antipathy to beards, win the general election. The five-strong top table at the press...
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Gum conundrum
Nice to know that Britain's academics are just as keen to sort out life's little annoyances as well as its larger questions. Envelopes for example. Don't you just hate it when the flaps are not well...
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Pet philosopher
If Neil Tennant, one half of lyrical pop duo Pet Shop Boys, is to have an academic namesake, it seems appropriate that he should be a staff member of the department of philosophy - albeit at Ohio...
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Dressing down
Strathclyde University has just held the grand final of its ferociously competitive University Challenge, whose first round saw the senior officers beaten so ignominiously that they claim their...
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Hacked off
Britain's oldest working journalist, 101-year-old George Fraser, was recently awarded an honorary degree by his alma mater, Aberdeen University. Vice principal Graeme Roberts, giving the laureation...
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Taming shrew
Alumnus to be proud of no. 83 is the Hon Tim Lamb, chief executive of the new England and Wales Cricket Board, who with chairman Lord MacLaurin issued a "private warning" to England cricket coach...