Time and notion
He may have a Nobel prize, countless honorary doctorates and a viscountcy from the king of Belgium, but Ilya Prigogine's belief that time really does exist has alienated the physics community. Andrew...
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Regrets, he's had a few ...
Huw Richards talks to one ex-student union leader who is about to become president of his old university, Neil Kinnock Neil Kinnock was famously the first of a 1,000 generations of Kinnocks to go to...
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Who killed fair reporting?
Eighteen months ago six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was brutally murdered. The killer has never been found, so the media provided some suspects - her parents. The subsequent trial by TV so infuriated...
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How I fell out with Fat Puff and Bonbon
Alan Tormaid Campbell was a brilliant lecturer, a respected academic and a fine writer. So why, an industrial tribunal will hear, was he still a junior lecturer at Edinburgh University after 20 years...
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A puree genius at his work
Biologist Don Grierson (right) tells Alison Goddard about his race against the Americans to genetically engineer tomatoes and why his resulting tomato puree was such a success. But, below, in the...
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People's jury out on science
A puree genius at work. Tom Wakeford warns that the government must rethink the relationship between scientists and the public I believe that scientists have as much to learn about the needs of...
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Honorary degrees
University of Wales LLD: Edward Heath, member of parliament for Old Bexley and Sidcup, former prime minister (1970-74); Jacques Santer, president of the European Commission since 1995, prime minister...
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Chairs
London Institute Full professorships have been awarded to: Central St Martins College of Art and Design - Malcolm Le Grice, head of research; Caroline Dakers, cultural studies co-ordinator; Wendy...
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Quality lockout
A GROWING band of top universities is testing the authority of higher education's standards watchdog by closing its doors to auditors. Oxford, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle universities have...
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Unisys wins Durham info contract
The University of Durham's governing council has agreed to privatise management information services under contract to Unisys Ltd for an undisclosed sum. The Association of University Teachers has...
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In Brief
The University of Kent at Canterbury is not planning to drop or significantly reduce its physics programmes, as stated in The THES last week. Last year undergraduate recruitment figures for physics...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's figures for 1996-97 reveal that Of the 1,756,179 higher education students recorded * 52.5 per cent were women * 11.3 per cent were from countries other than...
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BMA wants to set trainee doctor numbers
Student numbers at each medical school should be set publicly to ensure teaching quality, the British Medical Association announced this week. This follows last year's decision to train 1,000 more...
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HEFCE probe at Anglia
SENIOR managers at Anglia Polytechnic University face an investigation by the Higher Education Funding Council for England after complaints that they have attempted a cover-up of allegations exposed...
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Labs get networking
Europe is ploughing billions into biotechnology and bioscience. Alison Goddard and Kam Patel report THE European Commission has launched a plant biotechnology research network to improve technology...