Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, CARDIFF Barbara Adam, former senior lecturer in the school of social and administrative studies, has been promoted to reader. UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM The following have been...
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Grievance that took over a life
Lucy Hodges tells the story of a Bath University postgrad who wanted to switch from a masters to a PhD course. Neil McDougall was a postgraduate student studying for a masters degree in the school of...
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Call for uniform right to appeal
PhD students needa proper complaints procedure, says Simeon Underwood. The higher reaches of academic endeavour demand the highest standards of administrative justice. Yet where PhD students meet up...
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Theorising far from the madding crowd
The Leverhulme chairs scheme is such a success that it is to be extended. Olga Wojtas reports. Frankly, an almost physical weight has lifted off my shoulders, in the sense that the almost intolerable...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE Research grants Professor B. Hogwood and Dr D. Judge, Pounds 161,365 from the Economic and Social Research Council (audit of accountability - agencies and their multiple...
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Sir Ron's timetable
1996 FEBRUARY Education secretary Gillian Shephard announces appointment of a National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, chaired by Sir Ron Dearing. It will recommend how the shape,...
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Drowning by numbers
Demand for higher degrees is set to mushroom. Stephen Pritchard assesses how the sector will cope. The world of the postgraduate will be unrecognisable in a decade's time. The market will have...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX The following heads of department were appointed for three years from August 1: Neil Baker, biological and chemical sciences; Mike O'Mahony, electronic systems engineering; John...
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The mental bloc about going east
The British seem reluctant to study in Eastern and Central Europe. Vittoria D'Alessio tries to unravel the mystery. If your lip curls in horror at the idea of languishing in bourgeois Paris or...
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Sum win, sum lose
Changes in studentships will penalise some postgraduates. But teaching assistantships are becoming more common, says John Davies. Postgraduates beginning their study this autumn face quite a few...
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Nappy clue to happy old age
Vittoria D'Alessio meets a medical doctor investigating the power of the womb. Avan Sayer is on a quest for the elixir of life. Her research will help us understand how one person can live like a...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Personal professorships: A. R. Hawkins, reader, professor of molecular genetics; R. Jordan, reader, professor of medical education; R. Kenny, clinical senior...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"The new elite (of universities) have structural enclaves with their research students and assistants as acolytes" (From a study of the Research Assessment Exercise conducted by Ian McNay.) Your...
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Clearing the air
Fresh evidence for those who maintain that courses at Middlesex University are out of this world - their clearing advertising campaign will be carried on the SciFi channel of cable television.
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Hearing trials
Detecting hearing problems in newborn babies may reduce the number of children with delayed language development, according to scientists at Southampton University. Researchers have drawn this...