Major retrospective
If you prefer historians to political scientists as seers, May 1 looks likelier. It certainly looks as though the Institute of Historical Research seminar on 20th-century British history may be...
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Mother superior
The dons of Balliol College, Oxford will be quaking in their books as the figure of alumnas to be proud of No 86, Nicola Horlick, fills the front pages of every national newpaper. First, on Pounds 1...
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Glasgow wins world crown
GLASGOW University's student debating team of Derek Sloan and Andy Hume has won the World University Debating Championships at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Mr Sloan, a fourth-year...
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Patients reject student rounds
THE GREATER number of medical students in teaching hospitals is putting pressure on patients who in turn are withdrawing goodwill, it has been claimed. Derek McLaughlan, chairman of the British...
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Medics fear PhD neglect
SENIOR medics have called for a re-evaluation of postgraduate medical training amid fears that recent reforms could bleed the lifeblood from academic medicine. The draft report of the University of...
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Strathclyde denies steel site claim
STRATHCLYDE University has denied an MP's claim that it is bidding to build on the site of the former Ravenscraig steelworks now that St Andrews University has abandoned its plans for a university...
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Americans show staying power in battle for status
Huw Richards talks to two men in the London hot seats of learning about ߣߣÊÓƵ and the US IT WAS not so much Independence Day as Permanence Day. Last month staff at London University's Institute...
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Debts dog fame school
The Liverpool fame school founded by Paul McCartney remains in limbo, despite its patron's recent knighthood. Debts of more than Pounds 7.5 million last year put the Liverpool Institute of Performing...
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Musicians' college is out of tune
THE Royal College of Music, the only conservatoire with the power to award its own degrees, has been urged to revamp its "over-complex" quality monitoring system. Its "centralist approach" to quality...
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High hopes for anti-fat molecule
A chemical that could be used to tackle obesity is being investigated by scientists at Strathclyde University. The chemical, which causes weight loss in experimental subjects, was found in a plant...
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Wrist work helps you get a grip
People whose dexterity has been affected by nerve damage to the wrists could regain mobility thanks to Leicester University's medical faculty. Special hand exercises which could help restore skilled...
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Just say maybe, it depends on my friends
CHAOS theory could provide the key to helping drug addicts kick their habit. Alan Dean, a lecturer in the school of social and political sciences at Hull University, is identifying underlying...
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The snoozy life at the big snoop
After staking out private detectives for two years, Martin Gill and Jerry Hart have returned safely to Leicester University's Scarman Centre. They believe that they are the first academics to dip...
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India protects degree market
FOREIGN universities trying to gatecrash the Indian higher education market have discovered that their degrees will not be recognised. The ministry has warned students that they sign up at foreign...
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Hebron welcomes pull-out
AS THE INK dries on the long-awaited agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority on redeployment in Hebron, the city's university is coming to terms with the peace. Looking...