On the move
John Roberts, 54, chief executive of the Post Office, has been appointed president of council at the Institute for Employment Studies. Lord Alexander of Weedon, 62, chairman of the NatWest Group, has...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Must re-draft Latin American business environment paper - September deadline long passed. Success. Can I ask colleagues to re-read it? No. Thank goodness for email. Ignore unread messages. Any...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Sue Howard asked if all nurses should have degrees Geoffrey Hunt European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences University of Surrey Of course they should. One of the key...
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Teacher training: seven more providers at risk
Teacher education provision is under threat in seven more institutions, following the publication of critical inspection reports by schools' inspectorate Ofsted. The Teacher Training Agency began...
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Lecturers to press USS on ethics of pensions
Lecturers will raise concerns over ethical investment of pension funds at next week's annual institutions meeting of the Universities' Superannuation Scheme. Alan Carling, past president of the...
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A third of college self-assessments 'too generous'
The quality of management and governance is "unacceptable" in one in 12 colleges, the sector's chief inspector has warned. Publishing his annual inspection report for 1997/98 this week, Further...
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Researcher: 'I was used'
The University of Birmingham "exploited" an award-winning academic's fixed-term contract to boost its research assessment exercise results on the cheap, it has been claimed. Saeed Fararooy, a...
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Stubborn Cambridge's legal bill soars
Cambridge University has rejected another settlement in its epic battle with history lecturer Gill Evans, who is campaigning for reform of the university's promotion procedures. Last spring the...
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Gender study shows women are 'driven by fear of failure'
A comparison of more than 400 university students has found that males and females adopt radically different learning styles. The results have important implications for the success of students which...
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Liddell wins Pounds 15 million for Scotland from UK pot
Scottish education minister Helen Liddell is set to win Pounds 15 million for Scottish higher education from the rest of the United Kingdom in the wake of student support changes. Mrs Liddell,...
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Where 20 years' salary buys a PC
As Iraq heads for confrontation with the UN, Susannah Hall and David Olafimihan meet the academics who have to teach with ancient computers and no internet Walking into one of the computer labs in...
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Owen's war just a click away
On the anniversary of the death of poet Wilfred Owen, Phil White and Natasha Loder report on a remarkable digital archive that enriches his work in the context of the Great War There is no danger...
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The THES Diary
Support from the wife The appointment of David Gibson, principal of City College, Manchester, prompted one college principal to remark: "I am more proud of him than ever. I think he will be just...
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Glittering prizes
Sir Roger Penrose, 67, emeritus Rouse Ball professor of mathematics at Oxford University, and Bernard Crick, 68, chairman of the government's commission on citizenship in schools and author of George...
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In the news
A man said to have held every major office except prime minister - "the best prime minister we never had" - and founder of a "third route" political party, the Social Democrats, long before Tony...