Get research to tie the knot
WHAT: Jennifer Currie talks to Alan Jenkins about the difficult but necessary task of marrying teaching and research. WHY: Students need to be given clear information as to why the research is taking...
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RAE exclusion
The method employed to select panel members for the research assessment exercise seems to have excluded a priori staff from new universities. There is a risk that a method involving the mutual naming...
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Early dispute solutions
Baroness Blackstone's recent speech to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals served only to emphasise that a proper complaints procedure is now a minimum requirement for universities in...
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Early dispute solutions
Don Staniford (Letters, THES, September 24) claims the visitorial system lacks independence. What is the evidence for this? Why is the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, a committee...
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How the GDR targeted academics
Christopher Andrew's supposition that the Stasi discussed schemes "to encourage naive modern languages departments in British universities to send students to study German in East German universities...
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How the GDR targeted academics
Universities should not facilitate the investigation of students and academics by MI5, an organisation that has targeted socialists, trade-unionists and civil-libertarians in the name of so-called "...
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Pay the local way
Tom Wilson of Natfhe tells us that local pay determination would be expensive, wasteful and wrong (Letters, THES, September 24). It seems useful to bear in mind that most firms and organisations in...
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Pay the local way
According to David Mee, personnel director at the University of Central England (Letters, THES, September 24) the Bett committee should have listened to P. C. Knight and recommended the abolition of...
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Smart cards smooth path to college
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Further education students are to be offered smart cards to store personal information, monitor college attendance and...
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The confusion over whether teaching itself should count towards the RAE
The subject panels judging university research have made proposals on assessment, but they are still unsure about how to assess research on teaching their subjects. Until now research into the...
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Wicks way on lifelong brief
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Malcolm Wicks could not have put it better. Just hours after Tony Blair's love-it-or-loathe-it speech, the newest...
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University safety record panned
Environmental watchdogs have criticised universities' "arrogance" about health and safety. The warning came as Cambridge University pleaded guilty to three criminal charges of losing a package of...
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Welcome aboard
(Photograph) - Students started work this week at Greenwich University's new Pounds 20 million campus, on the site of the old Royal Naval College. Teaching is based in Queen Anne Court, built by Sir...
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QAA to impose externals code
Uniform rules designed to end "wide variations" in the roles, responsibilities and powers of universities' external examiners are to be imposed by 2001 amid concerns that some universities are using...
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Snout placement
(Photograph) - Sophie Clapp, a social anthropology student at St Andrews University, spends her final days of summer holiday at the Sorley Tunnel adventure farm in Loddiswell, Devon, where she has...