Liability law pleas rebuffed
The Government has turned down pleas for new laws to protect university and college governors from personal liability where their institutions run into serious financial problems. Department for...
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Docklands go ahead
A London docklands university is to become a reality with the Government's decision to approve a Pounds 16 million technology centre in the Royal Docks in East London. A Pounds 7.8 million grant from...
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Bread line
Precise image of the week belonged, unwittingly or not, to the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals' spokesman who described the assembled bosses as "aerated" when they met to discuss the...
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Cows in clover
Just two weeks after the Budget bombshell has left most of higher education wondering if it can afford any new buildings, the University of Reading has announced the opening of "new facilities for...
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Right to beef
Sir Bernard Tomlinson and fellow scientists are quite right to kick up a fuss about mad cow disease. After all, the incidence of its human equivalent, Creutzfelt Jacob disease, is one in a million,...
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Dead cert
James Owen Drife of Leeds University's school of medicine has been reassuring medical students about their post-qualification careers in the latest student edition of the British Medical Journal. "In...
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Mini Japan takes root in Berks
British students have been given the go-ahead to apply through the Universities and Colleges Admisions Service and receive standard mandatory awards covering tuition fees to study at a small private...
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High-tech library unveiled
(Photograph) - The University of Abertay Dundee is building an Pounds 8 million library which will almost treble its existing space while significantly reducing the proportion available for books....
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Carpeting for mites
A traditional party trick has pointed the way ahead for an electrifying scheme to fight asthma. John Hughes of the centre for bioelectrostatics at Southampton University is leading research into...
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Oxford joins race for saviour antibodies
A glimmer of hope for multiple sclerosis sufferers and for those with other autoimmune diseases is offered with the opening of a research centre in Oxford dedicated to therapeutic antibodies. The...
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Do not go gently . . .
Gwyn Alf Williams, former professor of history at the Universities of York and Wales, was never one to go quietly anywhere and his funeral last month carried that tradition to the end. Punctuated by...
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Burning issues
Glasgow University has sent out a newsletter, Prospect, to thousands of residents round its West End campus, letting them know about the exciting range of events and services which the university has...
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Time and motion
Tempers were short at the end of the European Patent Office appeal hearing about whether or not a genetically engineered mouse could be patented. When officials announced that the appeal would finish...
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Nice swan, Gerald
Gerald Wilson, secretary of the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department, this week welcomed delegates to the Society for Research into Higher Education's annual conference at Heriot-Watt...
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Gabriel no angel
Alumni to be proud of No. 23 is a fine advertisement for the value of religious education. After leaving the Colegio de Teologia in Pamplona, Gabriel Urralburu's career prospered to the extent that...