Battlefront drawing closer
The loophole which allows Russian graduates to avoid military conscription is closing fast. State Duma deputies (members of Russia's lower house) have overwhelmingly backed a new law extending...
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Sacked lecturers as cheap labour
An agricultural college is making six lecturers compulsorily redundant and offering them jobs back as "practical instructors" on half their previous pay. A total of 12 horticultural lecturers' jobs...
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Manufacturing 'not runt of NVQ litter'
The quango charged with introducing vocational qualifications has rejected claims by a Lords Government spokesman that the GNVQ for manufacturing has been poorly targeted. Lord Lucas, Government...
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Students see red over greening East Anglia
Students at the University of East Anglia are planning to launch a blistering attack on the institution's record for environmental management and responsibility. Josh Busby, student union environment...
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Student tutoring growing fast
The success of student tutoring schemes is very easy to measure in one way. Five years ago there were just four schemes, helped with BP cash, sending students in to local schools as tutors. Now there...
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World bankers come to town
International investment bankers, consultants and academics from all over the world converged on Bradford in April to discuss ways to make social and economic development projects more effective, to...
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Anthem row rumbles on
Queen's University of Belfast's ruling body has performed an almost impossible political feat as a row over dropping the national anthem at graduation ceremonies rages on. The university senate...
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V-cs devise expansion blueprint
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is urgently drawing up a series of town and country planning guidelines to cope with potential conflicts thatcould be caused by the need for new...
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Extra jobs from IT just a 'myth'
A major conference next week on the social and economic implications of information and communications technologies will hear that there is little evidence of the rapid growth in electronic...
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Making a splash
(Photograph) - Making a splash: Michela Smith, lecturer in sports psychology at Luton University shows her skills as a water polo player. Ms Smith is a member of the Great Britain water polo team...
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Warwick leads as others follow
Universities are rushing to copy Warwick University's prestigious Pounds 10 million research fellowship scheme, launched last year to attract 50 top scholars. Among its imitators are old universities...
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Drugs get needled by the body
Research on what the body does to drugs, rather than on what drugs do to the body, is to be developed at Manchester University as a result of a newly-launched centre. The research should strengthen...
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Traffic controls on info-highway
Oxford Brookes and British Telecom have quelled fears that an unchartered route on the information superhighway could become jammed and unmanageable with the development of a new regulating device....
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Formula One car design breakthrough on computer
Formula One car designers have turned to Exeter University researchers for help in creating their latest track-hugging racing machines. The Italian Minardi team describes its 200 mph M195 model as...
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Swansea's lucky Jim
(Photograph) - Swansea University lecturer Jim Hawes, pictured right, is watching the advances for his first novel A White Merc with Fins rise steadily towards six figures as it is sold around the...