Students: handle with more care
Academic departments should take more responsibility for helping their students, instead of assuming that this is the preserve of "experts", according to a student adviser. Heather Lloyd, chief...
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Enrolments rising
English universities enrolled 5 per cent more higher education students in 1994/95 than in the previous year, and 43 per cent more than in 1990/91. The number of higher education students in...
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Queen's IT plan steps on gas
Queen's University Belfast will bid to set up a research and enterprise park on the site of the city's former gasworks. It is intended to be a world leader in information and communications...
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Probation plan slammed
Plans to take probation officer training out of higher education could end up putting the public at risk, say vice chancellors. In an unusually forceful submission to the Home Office over proposals...
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Cash for libraries means expansion
Study space for 200,000 extra students will come out of the Pounds 45 million handed out for university and college libraries, the Higher Education Funding Council for England said this week. The...
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Heart attacks mapped
A study of the prevalence of heart attacks should help target scarce healthcare resources on those in greatest need. Researchers from Nottingham University's geography department and the division of...
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Expert Nutter
And an extremely warm and wary welcome to Michigan State University's top expert on right-wing extremists, assistant professor John Nutter.
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Rum swizzle
Teetotallers at Southampton University's institute of maritime law helped dispel the rum-swilling image of the seafarer with a conference lunch declared by the international shipping weekly Fairplay...
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Voters' cough
Smoking has caused more complicated problems for Birkbeck College philosophers: when someone demanded that their common room be no-smoking they could not decide on how to decide whether it should....
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Beam me up, Scottie
(Photograph) - Beam me up, Scottie: "Ski-Master", Dominic Plumb's award-winning entry in the Royal Society of Arts design awards at Dean Clough, Halifax, combines this stylish ski-hat with an...
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Singing professor
Given the bout of war nostalgia there is an understandable tendency to look back on a period of apparent social solidarity, self-sacrifice and other desirable communal values. But whether regard for...
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TUCing you in
TUC general secretary John Monks has high hopes for the movement's own television show, TUTV. "The TUC has bought space at 5.45am to show programmes designed to appeal to trade union activists," he...
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The glum zone
Dundee University's new departmental handbook reminds us that in 1989, the court decided "to adopt a policy banning smiling in all parts of the university . . . except in areas specifically...
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Quip per quo
No need for the Association of University Teachers to fork out on an expensive after-dinner speaker. General secretary David Triesman is always first to his feet. At last week's AUT conference he...
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Students to get learning vouchers
A voucher funding system for post-16 education and training to create a more student-led market is proposed in a Government-backed consultation paper published this week, writes Tony Tysome. But the...