Spooky stuff
Headhunting is usually defined nowadays as the art of locating new bosses for institutions, but those responsible for finding a new warden for St Antony's College, Oxford, may find Sir Robin Renwick...
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Time for genuflection
So what are the real benefits of becoming a professor? Kathy Burk, newly ensconced in a history chair at University College, London, enlivened a highly entertaining inaugural on Anglo-American...
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Upwards and backwards
(Photograph) - Dr Bill Barnes of Exeter University, seen here in Kitley Caves, Devon, is using laser analysis of stalagmites to map historic weather patterns. His team have found evidence of the...
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Chinese whispers
One or two facts are likely to have been missing from a fact-finding tour for Chinese educationists around British further education colleges last week. Organised by the Association of Colleges, it...
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Mixed loyalties
Alumnus to be proud of No 71 is the newest recruit to the Liberal Democrat Party in the House of Commons, Peter Thurnham. Mr Thurnham's feat of representing two different parties in the same...
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German tops minority league
A comparative study of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union's 48 minority languages identifies German spoken in Belgium and Italy, and counted as a minority language by the EU...
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Caped crusader
(Photograph) - Batman Sarah Bundie scales the law faculty at Birmingham University to raise money for the renovation of the Great Hall
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Don's Diary
Thursday. Strike action threatened on London underground tomorrow. Demonstrate GNVQ-type competence in "using a variety of information sources" to seek alternative ways of reaching Heathrow, and...
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Rating scale should go
Scotland's teaching quality assessment system should be radically revised by abandoning its current four-point rating scale, using existing reward funds to boost institutions' plans to improve...
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High cost of assessment
THE Research Assessment Exercise is having a damagingly distorting effect on university business schools, says a report on the management education sector. The 1996 Survey on Learning Methods in UK...
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Lecturer brushes up Welsh
An academic appointed to a Welsh-language lectureship by the University of Wales, Bangor, has stopped teaching for a year while she takes Welsh lessons. Surrey-born Pam Michael, who has learned to...
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Students prove reluctant to buy text-books
Hard-up students can afford fewer books for their money as cover prices soar and grants decline, according to a survey by a leading academic publishers. Blackwell Retail Ltd's survey of 500...
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Scots unite over site
A site earmarked for a university for south-west Scotland has attracted interest from two universities. Glasgow University has already unveiled plans to set up a college on the site of the former...
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Suspended Glasgow fine arts head resigns
Pavel Buchler, head of the fine art department at Glasgow School of Art's, left the college this week following a series of disciplinary hearings. A joint statement signed by Mr Buchler and the...
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MPs back fees rally
The Committee of Vice Chancellor and Principals has been accused of "holding a gun" to the heads of students over tuition fees. Chris Faddy, president of the University of Huddersfield student union...