Funders keep eye on Melton
College funding chiefs are appointing an official observer at Melton Mowbray College under tough anti-sleaze powers introduced earlier this year. This follows an inquiry into The THES's allegations...
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Jobs insecurity spreads
Higher education employees are twice as likely as bar staff and four times as likely as building site workers to be in temporary jobs. Only people working on campsites or for recruitment agencies...
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League plan to attract firms
Government officials are considering proposals for a university ranking system that would grade institutions on their success in forging links with industry. The system would complement the research...
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UCAS web 'a hit'
Universities spent less on advertising in clearing for the third year running this summer, while the use of the web took off, according to Riley Research's annual report on clearing. More than four...
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FE disconnected?
The pairing of further education and libraries is a rather neglected one (Opinion, THES, November 19). The role of libraries "is changing and their importance increasing" and that "the library is the...
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Take us into account
Anthea Rose says the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is "the only professional accountancy body that has its own technician qualification" (Letters, THES, December 3). The Association...
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Benito Blair?
Dennis Kavanagh says that a large staff devoted to media manipulation and focus groups "is normal in the White House (but) is an innovation in the UK" ("Bona fide or Bonaparte", THES, November 26)....
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Greek pathways
Final general examinations in Greece are not similar to GCSEs ("Winds of change in Aegean", THES, November 19). Until recently, there have been four pathways from which to choose. For example, by...
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True indicator is a job at the end
The idea behind university performance indicators about widening participation and drop-out rates (THES, December 3) is welcome. It is the very essence of a modern university that its students and...
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True indicator is a job at the end
University College Northampton is disputing with the Higher Education Funding Council for England that "out of 179 mature, full-time, first-degree holders who already possessed a qualification two-...
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Windy problem is solved
The answer was blowing in the wind. Experts have for the first time calculated the mathematically correct way to fly a flag and fill a sail. Alistair Fitt and PhD students Martin Pope and Tim...
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Star Turn
Tony Tysome hums and cackles with students on a blue gym mat while a world expert in voice training sets the right tone It seems as if I have stumbled into a clearing in some magical forest,...
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A case of mistaken identities
Nadia Lovell describes her experience as a 'white' woman teaching 'black' students in Britain about African history and culture. My first experience of teaching theories of religion at a British...
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Agony aunt
Q More and more of my time is taken up by meetings, which are increasingly interfering with my teaching preparation. Can anything be done to speed them up? A Sally Brown, Director of membership...
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Medical 'crisis': 74 chairs vacant
Medical schools face a crisis recruiting top researchers to clinical chairs. An unpublished survey reveals that at least 74 of the 401 established positions in the United Kingdom are vacant. A...