Name in lights
(Photograph) - Name in lights: Margaret Harker, photography educationist and historian, was at the opening last week of a photography centre named after her on Westminster University's Harrow campus...
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Browned off
Alumnus to be proud of No 30 is Cedric Brown, the British Gas man and life- imitates-art incarnation of Harry Enfield's most famous concept, who received awesome amounts of cash this week in return...
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Taste for power
Tony Keenan, professor of organisational behaviour at Heriot-Watt University, has been explaining how you check for Type A personalities, one of the predictors of future career success among...
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Do Ron Ron
The Scottish Agricultural College is noted for pepping up its press releases with eye-catching headlines. But it remains to be seen how Ron Speirs, head of the college's analytical services, and...
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Past haunts
The Identikit v-c being a chap in his 50s who has rosy memories of his own student days during the radically-minded 1960s, there was not quite the angered response to the student demonstrators who...
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Yes sir, quote me
Among the most vigorous participants in the debate over funding options has been Derek Fraser, vice chancellor of Teesside. Possibly in gratitude for his quotability, The Times and The Daily...
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Mad career move
It has been long suspected, long joked about, and now psychiatrists have finally admitted it. At the winter meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists last week there was a session for trainees...
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Professor attacks English A level
A leading academic is calling for a review of A-level English syllabuses amid claims that school pupils are increasingly poorly read. Martin Dodsworth of Royal Holloway College, University of London...
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Slip-shod image wastes profit chance
Universities and colleges are squandering the chance to reap sizeable profits from their income generating services. The reason is poor marketing, according to a study published by Higher Education...
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News hounded
At least one vice chancellor has been reflecting that the grass is always greener on the other side as a result of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals unprecedented and somewhat vertigo-...
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Foreign tongues
Is the Nolan committee's travelling roadshow beginning to suffer from jet lag? After visiting Cardiff two weeks ago, the committee last week headed north of the border, where one member of the...
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Moon man seeks money for ideas
A sizeable chunk of Government spending on science and technology should go on funding a "big idea" such as improving air quality or eradicating a disease, according to a policy paper from the...
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Colleges neglect industry's needs
The training needs of industry and commerce are not being met by colleges. Instead colleges give higher priority to the preferences of individual students, according to a national inspection report....
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Video nasty
Coming soon to a cinema near you? Probably not, but the Higher Education Funding Council for England is making a video explaining the allocation process. Based on one of the books that did not quite...
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Cranfield shelves resources centre bid
Another bidder for the Overseas Development Administration's research arm has fallen by the wayside. Cranfield University has pulled out of the competition to buy the Natural Resources Institute, to...