'Devolution will affect how science is done'
The Welsh Assembly could take the lead in attracting top scientists to Wales by financing personal university chairs, says Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. The Conservatives in Wales want to...
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Bravehearts, high hopes
Scottish and Welsh higher and further education are staking claims with their new political masters. Olga Wojtas and Jennifer Currie survey the ground. Scottish further and higher education...
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Head to head on the hustings
Take a snarling audience, add politicians and stir it up with a chairman who half-jokingly compares himself to Jerry Springer, and you have a recipe for a US chatshow. Although the accents were...
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'We have an active role to play'
Higher education may not come under the Welsh Assembly's remit, but institutions are regarding its advent with a mix of optimism and worry. "It will be an opportunity and a challenge," said Adrian...
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'If we do not make our mark now...'
Joan Stringer, principal of Queen Margaret University College and vice-convenor of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, served on the constitutional steering group on the Scottish...
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Glittering prizes
Robert Hawley, chairman of the Engineering Council, has been awarded the Order of Diplomatic Merit, Kwang-ha Medal (First Degree) by the Republic of Korea for his promotion of friendly ties between...
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Heard but unsaid
Surprise all round at Senate House last week at the inaugural lecture of one of Britain's best-known historians. With the bold words "I have never been afraid to speak my mind", David Cannadine...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Start of the second and final week of a course I am delivering to 12 hardened CID men who now have to struggle with the academic demands of essays and group presentations. Most claim the last...
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On the move
Jacqui Johnson, a lecturer in communications and media studies at Bracknell and Wokingham College, has been elected vice-president of university and college lecturers' union Natfhe. She will take up...
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Mirjana Markovic
The name Mirjana means peace. But Mirjana Markovic, wife of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, has never really known any. She was born in 1942 in a forest when her teenage mother, Vera, was a...
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UK inventors not cashing in
Of 371 US patents citing UK neuroscience papers, 13.1 per cent of the inventors named are from the UK but only 3.4 per cent of the owners are UK-based companies and individuals. Wellcome said: "There...
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Bulgarians flock to Vienna
VIENNA Bulgarians now constitute the largest number of foreign students at one of Austria's largest universities. Out of a total student population of 22,000 at the University of Economics in Vienna...
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French develop abbey habit
PARIS French students are discovering that the best way to improve their exam grades is to shut themselves away with monks. As the distractions of everyday life become harder to resist, a stay in an...
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Ireland acts over high-tech skills shortage
DUBLIN The Irish government has announced an initiative aimed at heading off potential skill shortages in the information technology sector. An additional 5,400 higher education places will be...
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Agony aunt
Q. My department is using more and more computer-aided learning and I detect that some of my students are becoming bored with pointing and clicking. How can this be avoided? A. Peter Murray-Rust,...