All Souls brothers
A mid all the comments that John Redwood appears to have come from another planet, a simple explanation for his otherwordliness has been overlooked. Mr Redwood is a fellow of All Souls, that...
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Redwood, the `vacant Vulcan'
John Redwood may be an intellectual heavyweight, but the former Welsh secretary is regarded more as a "vacant Vulcan" by further and higher education heads in Wales. A former fellow of All Souls...
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Contract staff hopes raised
Vice chancellors will today study a "framework of principles" to improve the career management of thousands of contract researchers in further and higher education. The draft "concordat", drawn up by...
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Watchdog on safety keeps bite
The Health and Safety Executive will continue to prosecute individual staff for safety transgressions despite its failure to win a court case against a chemistry lecturer last week. Clive Bird's case...
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Cash crisis squeezes students out
Financial pressures appear to be forcing more students out of higher education, according to the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. Reinforcing evidence earlier this year from a Higher...
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CVCP appoints trade unionist
While lending itself to "poacher turned gamekeeper" treatment, the appointment of former Association of University Teachers general secretary Diana Warwick as chief executive of the Committee of Vice...
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Japan welcome
Japan has become the first country to be admitted as an observer to the council of Cern, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory.
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Dundee takes cake
Computer studies at Dundee, judged unsatisfactory during the 1993/94 quality assessment round, has now been reassessed as satisfactory by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Glasgow and...
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Genes checked
Mass genetic screening for common diseases, including diabetes, is only years away but the benefits compare poorly with simply encouraging healthy behaviour, Angus Clarke, senior lecturer in clinical...
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Chair for comics
The country's first chair of comedy is being proposed for Lancaster University to accompany a national archive devoted to British humour. Lancaster cultural history professor Jeffrey Richards has...
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Merger losses
Governors of the Winchester School of Art will meet today to consider a merger with Southampton University amid rumours of heavy job losses. The college Natfhe branch said that provided promises were...
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CVCP `out of touch'
Sir Claus Moser, chairman of the National Commission on Education, this week called for a new public body to involve academics in strategic decisions about universities. The Commitee of Vice...
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Alumni ambassadors go aroving in schools
Staffordshire University is running weekend training schools next term for volunteer graduates who want to become recruitment agents visiting schools around the country. The idea comes from the...
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Fraud squad for scientists
The Royal College of Physicians is looking at the practicalities of setting up a fraud squad for British science. An interdisciplinary group is to put ideas into a consultative paper to go out in...
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Leakey launches pocket wind trap
A new research discipline, flatology, is opening up after the invention of a device that measures the volume and contents of flatulence. The gadget will help in the study of everything from irritable...