Good fellows
The Golden Triangle has dominated the British Academy's newly-established fellowship scheme designed to support collaborative and interdisciplinary research. Half the 16 institutional fellowships...
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Gene genie
Geneticists agree they have taken a risk by releasing a long genetic sequence, thought to contain a gene that can make people susceptible to breast cancer, onto the Internet. The scientists, from the...
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Harvard holds on
Harvard University still holds a patent for any animal genetically engineered to develop cancer after an appeal against its patent broke up without conclusion last week. Some anti-patent campaigners...
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Union split
The split between further and higher education trade unions continued to jeopardise hopes of a joint pay claim next year. In a stinging letter Association of University Teachers assistant general...
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Salford raids savings
Salford University chiefs are salvaging a tarnished commercial image by raiding money reserved for academic expenses like personal computers and foreign conferences to save a once-profitable...
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Living in the fast lane
Julius Tomin ended a seven-day fast in Oxford on Monday with a bowl of chicken broth. "This was the best hunger strike of my life. Not eating for a week renewed my strength," he said. Czech dissident...
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Fears of loans' cost
Universities would subsidise the cost of processing new privatised student loans under Government proposals, it emerged this week. Loan applications already cost higher education institutions Pounds...
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PFI not suited to all projects
The Private Finance Initiative is set to become the main capital funding mechanism for universities barely eight months after it was first introduced in the higher education sector. Universities have...
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V-cs plan paper on funding ideas
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has asked university heads to produce a consultation paper on funding. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will announce its plans to publish...
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Tender touch
(Photograph) - Tender touch: the University of Sunderland sponsored an exhibition in London this term by Virginia Bodman, its senior lecturer in charge of painting, called "Strong Meat". Her images...
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Dark horse
Heard at the back of the Labour front bench press conference last week, a journalist's stage whisper "Who's he?" accompanied by a gesture in the direction of Bryan Davies, further and higher...
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Uncivil listing
Even the Yellow Pages has become involved in sniping. The entry "Boring" reads "See Civil Engineers".
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Bard comments
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. A dispute has erupted in the heart of England where a bronze bust of the poet Rabindranath Tagore has been presented to the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford...
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Natural selection
And hello to Sarah Darwin, who works at the Linnaean Society. Naturally selected for the job after tough competition.
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Free wisdom
Market forces were rampant at last week's Global Partnership '95 gathering in London, "a celebration of the diversity of the peoples of the Earth". You could pay Pounds 95 to hear a group chaired by...