Lois lost for ever
A Napier University spokeswoman has dismissed reports that the popularity of a Web site for Teri Hatcher, who plays Lois Lane in The New Adventures of Superman, left by an information systems...
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Witty ditty
The upgrading of Waterford's technical college has inspired Irish jokers to recall the legendary Grimsby project provisionally titled the South Humberside Institute of Technology until acronymic...
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Big buck
Glasgow University's staff newsletter has been enthusing about the Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition, to which it is the largest single lender, which has been wowing them in New York after drawing...
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Cock-eyed
It is always reassuring when an advert can prove that the people selling a service have a first-hand knowledge of it. So hearty congratulations to Oxford Brookes University for the publicity for its...
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Ear to the ground
And the Universtiy of Oxford also deserves a pat on the back for omitting nothing in its painstaking construction of a How not to get Planning Permission case-study for its new business school. The...
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Cut and thrust
Alumnus to be proud of No 87 is that great patron of the shipbuilding industry Michael Portillo, whose recognition of the job and trade-creating possibilities of state expenditure came in the same...
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NUS takes a neutral stand
THERE WILL be no 1997 equivalent of the National Union of Students controversial Target 70 campaign, focused on marginal seats at 1992's general election. Accused then of partisanship by the...
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Troubled Trent builds bridge for aid
A TROUBLED further education college has reached out to other local institutions for help. Kevin Farrell, chairman of governors at Stoke-on-Trent College, has requested a meeting next month with...
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Tax dodge robs students of vote
STUDENTS may be robbing themselves of the chance to vote in a misguided attempt to avoid paying council tax. Although students are exempt from paying the tax, a conflict arises for those who share a...
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Citizenship is not just cricket, teachers warn
Michael Portillo believes that military discipline and good citizenship go hand in hand. But Carol Nahra finds that teacher trainers are not so sure No political party wants to be seen to be ignoring...
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Tate stokes toe treading fears
Nick Tate was ushered into perhaps the most powerful job in British education this week. With an ominous flutter of red tape, Dr Tate was offered the role as chief executive of the new all-...
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Teens show some team spirit
The Government's bid to encourage military training for all teenagers has drawn attention to the role of cadets in higher education. Every year the army tries, principally at freshers' events, to...
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Ulster teaches nurses to keep cool in a disaster
The sinking of the Estonia passenger ship, the Kobe earthquake, the Manchester bombing, refugees in the former Yugoslavia, flooding in Bangladesh: the list of recent natural and man-made disasters...
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Biomedical research relies on begging bowl
Charities are now funding more than twice as many biomedical research papers in the United Kingdom as the Government-funded Medical Research Council. Joe Anderson, head of the unit for policy...
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Husbands and wives climb the ladder together
Marriage and the job. Equal opportunities Rebecca Dobash, professor of social research in the department of social policy and social work at the University of Manchester, and her husband Russell...