Institute of Learning and Teaching
* The AUT executive narrowly averted a disaster for the fledgling Institute of Learning and Teaching when it persuaded members to remain behind the initiative. Amid much hostility and antagonism, a...
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'I am doing my job better than ever'
Alison Utley reports from last week's Association of University Teachers summer council in Scarborough Philosopher Nick McAdoo (pictured left) works from home for the Open University and the...
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Debt increase not all bad news
New universities have debts of more than a third of their total income, according to the latest analysis of higher education. But figures in Noble's Higher Education Financial Yearbook for 1999 also...
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Making chaos out of disorder
Principals warn that attempts to 'tidy up' higher education will lead to an identity crisis, writes Tony Tysome Ministers and quality chiefs attempting to impose a new order in higher education have...
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Where scop colleges stand
New government rules ban institutions from using the university college title unless they have taught degree-awarding powers, or have merged or entered into a federal relationship with a university...
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Too many credentials
A senior academic at Robert Gordon University has been accused of faking his qualifications. Robert Bradley, former head of the school of applied sciences and professor of physical chemistry is...
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AUT incompetence
The head of the Association of University Teachers has been lambasted by an employment tribunal as "ignorant, naive and complacent" about race relations, despite being vindicated over a complaint of...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Edinburgh is to award honorary doctorates of science to Paul Nurse, director general and head of the cell cycle laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund; James Jardine, former head...
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Don's Diary
Saturday Set off from Bangor to Bangkok. We are a team from the school of ocean sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, joining a European Union project to study seagrass meadows and mangroves in the...
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The THES Diary
Nice to chi you... Anyone hoping for a future improving the National Health Service must adopt a suitably respectful tone. Those involved in the Commission for Health Improvement have been told to...
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In the news
When others were losing their heads over mad cow disease, John Pattison, new director of research and development at the Department of Health, for the most part kept his customary calm. As chair of...
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On the move
Philippa Cordingley, independent researcher and education consultant; Colin Greenhalgh, principal of Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge; Surrinder Kaur, deputy director of nursing at University...
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Next-generation Microsoft
Microsoft has extended its reach into education by joining Internet2, the US-based "next-generation" initiative. As a corporate partner, the company will contribute about Pounds 600,000 in goods and...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia is to increase its student intake to all institutions of higher learning by 10 per cent this year, enabling many able students who were turned down last year to obtain places. Local...
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Florence
Italy's most celebrated literary academy, the Accademia della Crusca, in Florence, risks closure for lack of funds. The Accademia, located in a 16th-century villa, was founded in 1582 by Pietro de'...