My revolting past
From working-class kid to getaway driver for hooligans - sociologist John Williams shares memories of a colourful life. John Williams, director of Leicester University's Centre for the Sociology of...
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No busy body
Minutes of the monthly meetings of the Department for Education and Skills' research forum, chaired by Sir Graeme Davies, have appeared on the web. But they give little clue about what this...
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Pants protester trousers seat
An academic who stripped to his underpants and donned a hood outside Norwich Labour Club in a protest against the treatment of prisoners in Iraq has been elected to the city council in the...
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Party pooper
The Arts and Humanities Research Board will have a proper seat at the funding table when it becomes a research council next spring. In recognition of its importance, Charles Clarke showed up at the...
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Thought for food
And finally, there was a small but poignant victory for science communication at last week's science festival in Cheltenham. During one public session, academics discussed synaesthesia - a condition...
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Why I ...believe the British should celebrate Bloomsbury
My clippings files are stuffed with Bloomsbury satires: a floor of the New York Public Library collapses under the weight of books by and about the Bloomsbury Group; to rival Dallas , a new soap...
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Set free to do the job
Government constraints stymie useful work, so Alan Smithers is delighted to go independent The Centre for Education and Employment Research is moving to Buckingham University. It is not just that it...
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Conflict overrules consensus
The days when we trusted the judgement of a public inquiry are over, argues Kieron O'Hara Twenty years ago next month, the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology,...
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University status given
The Privy Council this week granted a university title to the former Roehampton Institute, which has been part of the federated Surrey University since 2000. Roehampton can use the university title...
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Bogus colleges probed
More than 100 colleges in England and Wales are being investigated by police after being exposed as bogus institutions acting as a front for an immigration scam, the Home Office said this week. The...
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Science cull denied
Managers at North East Wales Institute have denied claims by union leaders that they are planning to make 19 science department staff redundant. A Newi spokesman said this week that a range of...
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Entries online by 2006
The days of filling in paper application forms to university look numbered as admissions chiefs plan to go fully electronic by 2006. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service will work with...
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NI campus to close
Queen's University Belfast is to close its outreach campus in Northern Ireland's third city of Armagh not far from the border with the Irish Republic. Launched in a blaze of publicity almost a decade...
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Tissues bill amended
The Human Tissues Bill has been modified following fears that it would criminalise medical research. In its original form, the bill outlawed research using any human tissue without explicit prior...
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UHI sets 2007 target
Jack McConnell, Scotland's First Minister, has said he expects the UHI Millennium Institute to achieve university status by 2007, Scotland's Year of Highland Culture. This is the institute's own...