More support for casuals urged
Standards are in danger of slipping unless universities improve the working conditions of casual staff, a report from London University's Institute of Education has warned. Recent Teaching Quality...
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Fund aims to boost good management
Initiative fatigue is preventing universities from introducing best management practice. So say responses submitted this week to a funding council consultation. The Higher Education Funding Council...
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Queen's AUT under fire
Queen's AUT president told the equal opportunities officer: 'Here is the latest dose of rubbish from Dr Deman. I shall not even bother to reply to it' An ethnic minority lecturer had "grounds for...
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End of the road for franchising
With tough new constraints on the sale of distance courses, colleges must look to local provision to make up for the Pounds 6 million deficit that is forecast. Phil Baty reports The further education...
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Don's Diary
Monday The final week for Millennium Women - a forum concentrating on women's issues for the next millennium - is here. We begin the week with a group confab, as encouragement is needed all round....
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Society has appointed to fellowship: Frances Ashcroft, professor of physiology, University of Oxford; Anthony Barrett, Glaxo professor of chemistry, Imperial College, London; Rosa...
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The THES Diary
Light relief from v-c Liverpool John Moores University vice-chancellor Peter Toyne certainly knows how to soften the blow of bad news. Announcing Pounds 7.5 million of cuts to the university budget...
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In the news
Jack McConnell, finance minister in the Scottish Parliament, is a former National Union of Students Scotland activist and a familiar, jocular figure on Scottish television. However, an error of...
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World watch
Free higher education in Kazakstan will come to an end this semester, due to swingeing cuts in funding. From September students will have to pay tuition fees of $700-1,000 a year. Interest-free loans...
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World watch
Spanish students from poorer backgrounds are less likely to choose five-year degrees than their wealthier colleagues, according to a new report. The study, by two Granada University economists, shows...
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World watch
An international team of 14 university professors has succeeded in reducing the tilt on the leaning tower of Pisa by seven millimetres - one more than expected at this stage. The excavations are...
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World watch
The Royal Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen and the Swedish Agricultural University in Malmo are collaborating in a Scandinavian horticulture course. The first of the 90...
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Who the **** do you think?
As the 'American century' closes, the nation is engaged in a new bout of self-questioning, writes Harvey Kaye Do Americans ask questions of themselves and their fellow citizens more than do other...
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Italy fears return to 'Years of lead'
Massimo D'Antona 51 law professor at Rome's La Sapienza University and key government adviser on labour relations, assassinated in a hit involving at least four people as he walked past the sociology...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Jean Aitchison asked whether standards of English were falling among computer-literate students Penny Garrod Research Officer Electronic Information Systems Office The...