Silicon Fen tests limits on growth
The growth of higher education and high-technology industry around Cambridge could grind to a halt because of a policy clash. Presenting scenarios for the region's development over the next 50 years...
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Understanding understanding
The Office of Science and Technology is to do a review of public understanding of science activities. Sir Robert May, government chief scientist, told the House of Lords' science and technology...
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Staff vote for v-c to resign
Staff have voted overwhelmingly for the immediate resignation of Lincolnshire and Humberside vice-chancellor Roger King, claiming "gross mismanagement". Strike action is threatened at the troubled...
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OU fees paid for claimants
Open University courses will be free to part-time students on benefits from next year, lifelong learning minister George Mudie said yesterday. Mr Mudie outlined details of the scheme, first announced...
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How the groups are shifting
Finding new ways to measure success Oxford Brookes, Northumbria and West of England universities are the new universities now becoming most like the older "redbrick" universities, according to an...
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Finding new ways to measure success
Universities are still described as 'old' and 'new'. But these labels do not do justice to a diverse and rapidly changing sector. Alan Thomson reports A new pecking order is emerging in English...
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Who is widening participation and who is concentrating on research
Finding new ways to measure success This graph is by Peter Knight, vice-chancellor of the University of Central England. He separates universities into three distinct groups that highlight the...
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On the move
Struther Arnott, 64, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St Andrews for 14 years, is to retire on or shortly after St Andrew's Day (November 30). His announcement was a surprise...
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Glittering prizes
Mo Mowlam, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, will receive an honorary doctorate of laws from Queen's University, Belfast in December. The university is also to award honorary law degrees in...
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Don's Diary
Monday Marathon 9am-3pm haematology class. By 11am more than 80 have turned up - maybe blood cells aren't so bad after all. Shake off last student by 3.30pm and retreat to office. Twenty-minute...
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The THES Diary
Poor quality abuse The Association of University Teachers Scotland decided to make a high-profile splash in the new devolved Scotland with a full-colour advertisement in one of the Scottish papers....
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Female follies
Leonard Shlain's argument about goddess worship ("Writing on the wall for goddesses" (THES, May 7) makes sense if these assumptions are true: * there are such things as "male" and "female" values *...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Andrew Oswald argued that British academics would be paid market-led salaries within the next decade, with science professors earning twice as much as art or music professors...
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Agony aunt
Q) I am supervising a student whom I strongly suspect is suffering from mental health problems. I have no experience of this and want to know what is the best way to help her. Colin Lago Sheffield...
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In the news
In the 1960s, David Triesman was making rousing speeches to students about communism and the iniquities of chemical weapons. Today, his audiences are lecturers and his principal subject pay. But his...