Court threat to plagiarists
INTERNATIONAL publishers are threatening legal action to try to stamp out plagiarism by Italian academics and authors. Although common knowledge in Italy, the size of the breach of copyright problem...
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Highlands project soaks up FE earmarked cash
The Association of Scottish Colleges has reacted angrily to finding that more than half of the anticipated further education budget increase has been earmarked for the University of the Highlands and...
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Dundee confirms course cut
Dundee University's court has backed a senate decision to axe undergraduate teaching in education despite strong lobbying by students. The popular joint MA course in educational studies was launched...
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Leicester's alliance policy
ENGLISH: DE MONTFORT 1992 rating: 1 1996 rating: 3b After the last research assessment exercise, Leicester's De Montfort University received the largest amount of research funding of any new...
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Business plan for year 2000
So how was it for you? Departments, assessors and subject associations give their views on the 1996 research assessment exercise to THES reporters BUSINESS: MANCHESTER BUSINESS SCHOOL 1992 rating: 3...
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Pay battle steps up
Ballot papers are to be sent to more than 37,000 lecturers in the old universities, marking the second phase and a potentially major escalation in the dispute over pay. Both the examinations and...
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Inside knowledge: Chris Danks
(Photograph) - Chris Danks, a long-term inmate at Lindholme Prison near Doncaster, is studying for a BA honours degree in fashion and design from the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. The...
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Status seeker
Bolton Institute has formally applied to adopt the title "University of Bolton". The institute is the only institution in the country with both research and teaching degree-awarding powers not to...
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Buildings check
The Educational Institute of Scotland is asking every college and new university to carry out a full health and safety inspection during January to investigate the impact of cuts in building and...
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Grant speed-up
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council awarded just over 1,800 research grants to a value of Pounds 246 million, according to its 1995-96 annual report. EPSRC chief executive Richard...
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Fresh funders
Six new appointments have been made to the Further Education Funding Council for England. They are Mary Curnock Cook, director of the British Institute of Innkeeping; Peter Elliott, chairman of...
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New script for stage training
The Arts Council is set to table plans for an interim scheme to boost funding for dance and drama training. The move follows a decision in October that the council would use National Lottery money to...
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Chill touch of the ghostly past
An eerie mystery is unfolding in the bowels of Queen's University, Belfast. Academics are baffled by things that not only go bump in the night, but during daytime as well. Staff have reported some...
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University of the Air made waves
IT WAS still known as the University of the Air, although its eventual title was contained in the first line of the draft white paper: "The Government has decided to establish a University of the Air...
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Architects defend law centre
AWARD-WINNING architects at the centre of a dispute with Cambridge University over "disastrous" noise levels at the university's new Pounds 21 million law faculty claim that a simple solution was...