Vlad all over
A serious contender for the happiest academic around this week is Robert Service - not the Canadian poet, although displaying similar expertise on frozen wastes as professor of Russian politics and...
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Admissions vote
The University of Oxford's college representatives were due to meet yesterday for a vote on scrapping the admission exam.
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Healthy LSE
The London School of Economics has launched a multidisciplinary health research centre to investigate international health policy. The centre, LSE Health, has been formed out of a research group...
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Second rate
New Employment Department figures confirm the stereotype of the second-rate vocational qualification student and highlight the task facing organisations charged with introducing General National...
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Lecturer wins case
Robert Gordon University was this week ordered to reinstate senior lecturer Sheena Falconer and pay her Pounds 41,000 in back pay after failing to prove that she was truly redundant when it made her...
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Gut reaction
Following the news that physicists at Cern are to search for the Higgs boson, a theory proposed by Peter Higgs, professor of theoretical physics at Edinburgh, Scottish Television launched a vox pop...
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Branch line
Antithesis would be the last to make fun of the International Electronics Reliability Institute's forthcoming seminar at the University of Loughborough merely on the grounds that the main speaker,...
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Resurrection
(Photograph) - Resurrection: Peter Nardini, architect and senior lecturer in building design at South Bank University, displays the design of the Great Cross of Dresden's baroque Frauenkirche. The...
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Arts core
A new "core skills" qualification for sixth-formers completing academic and vocational courses was this week launched by the Royal Society of Arts. The Diploma of Achievement, which is to be...
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Oxford probe
The framework of the Commission of Inquiry into the future of the University of Oxford was published this week. The commission will look at governance, the future of the colleges and resources, the...
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Special needs net spreads
Facilities designed for students with special needs are having a wider impact than envisaged, a survey has found. The report, Access to Higher Education: Students with Special Needs, examines the...
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Guerrilla war for sixth forms
An independent further education advisory group has called for a moratorium on new school sixth-forms after a survey highlighted alarming side effects of their rivalry with colleges. Laser, the...
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Researchers facing shortage of patients
Medical researchers should have the freedom to pay hospitals other than their own to send them patients, according to Malcolm Green, the director of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation. This...
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Students lobby MPs over Bill for disabled
Hundreds of students were expected to join the National Union of Students' lobby of Parliament this Thursday in protest at the Government's Disabilities Discrimination Bill. Jim Murphy, president of...
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Digging design
(Photograph) - Digging design: David Stevens, Britain's first professor of garden design, wants to save the British garden from the time warp into which it has fallen. He said in his inaugural...