Lecturers halt pay militancy
Lecturers have suspended industrial action in the old universities over this year's pay offer after more than five months. The decision, which the Association of University Teachers' executive put...
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Firms help square academic circle
Academics and industrialists mistrust one another. Neither group understands what motivates the other and they clash culturally. This was a common thread in a joint debate between 100 academics and...
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Budget cash for Bett ruled out
The government has again dashed lecturers' hopes of extra cash to fund the Bett pay recommendations days before the chancellor's pre-budget statement. Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks made it...
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Bosses take token line on training
Employers are tokenistic about lifelong learning and are turning the idea of "employability" into little more than a "hackneyed catchphrase", according to an Institute of Employment Studies report....
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Peter Lachmann
Peter Lachmann's recent clash with Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, over the latter's decision to publish Arpad Pusztai's GM potato research, made front-page headlines. The 67-year-old...
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On the move
Four new members have been appointed to the board of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. They are: Jenny Fitton, principal of Taunton's College, Southampton; Peter McKie, chairman of PHM...
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Glittering prizes
Stephen Hawking, Lucasian professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, has received the Albert Medal from the Royal Society of Arts. The medal, instituted in 1863 as a memorial to Prince...
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The THES Diary
Calling a prat a prat There was no beating about the bush for members of the Scottish Parliament last week when they discussed the government's document on the Scottish University for Industry, The...
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Eyewitness
Vatican efforts to clear Pope Pius XII of charges of having kept silent during the Holocaust or even charges of virulent anti-Semitism have hit an academic stumbling block. Early last month the...
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Angst about grey matter
Harvey Kaye describes how American academia is suffering from a bad case of the creeping fifties As a child I remember lying awake at night trying to fathom growing up and older. I specifically...
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World watch
The Azores University has banned initiation rites for new students. Freshers at Terra Cha campus on Terceira island have complained of being forced to watch porn videos, drink large quantities of...
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World watch
A. T. M. Tofazzel Hossain, a professor at Bangladesh Open University business school, has won the 1999 Times Higher Education Supplement exchange scholarship. He will spend three months at Delhi's...
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World watch
A plan to have a "men's officer" for students at the University of Tasmania has outraged the National Union of Students. The NUS has condemned it as "backlash politics" based on the mistaken notion...
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Targets alarm Finns
Finnish academics fear their prestige and research opportunities will diminish if plans go ahead to smooth the differences between universities and polytechnics and induce 70 per cent of school...
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Medics get a dose of faith
United States medical schools are expanding their courses on spirituality, including faith healing, writes Jon Marcus. Administrators say the move comes as more patients - and medical students -...