Chairs
University of Manchester Robert Hawkins, professor of oncology at the University of Bristol, has been appointed to the Cancer Research Campaign chair of medical oncology from July 1. The following...
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Raiders of Euro cash
AN EXCLUSIVE international club of ten "innovative" universities is preparing for a smash-and-grab raid on European funding pots. The European Consortium of Innovative Universities, whose members...
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CVCP seeks cash for efficiency
UNIVERSITY chiefs met the Treasury this week to back calls for cash in the spending review with details on value for money provided by an efficient higher education sector. A team from the Committee...
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Appointments
Professional Association of Teachers Kay Driver, deputy general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association, has been elected general secretary. University of Strathclyde The title emeritus...
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The Public Interest Disclosure Bill
A bill to protect whistleblowers should soon be law, but few institutions are ready. Phil Baty reports The Private Member's Bill gets its second reading in the House of Lords in June. It is expected...
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A blow-by-blow account of cases
A bill to protect whistleblowers should soon be law, but few institutions are ready. Phil Baty reports ST MARK AND ST JOHN The College of St Mark and St John in Plymouth has sacked two long-serving...
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Cresson willing to cut Framework demand
THE European Commission may be willing to lower its target for research funding by up to Ecu1 billion (Pounds 700 million), Edith Cresson, the commissioner for research, has said. A Framework V...
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Waiting game
(Photograph) - One of up to 10,000 student demonstrators occupying the Indonesian parliament for a third day on Wednesday. As The THES went to press a military clampdown, which had led democracy...
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'Research hurts teaching'
"Useless" educational research in higher education is damaging government attempts to improve teaching standards, a chief government adviser said this week. At the launch of government reforms to...
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Bristol's legal twists
Trouble continues to plague Bristol University's legal practice course as its entire staff, nine lecturers and a research associate, are leaving to join neighbouring University of the West of England...
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Social work left to flounder by DFEE
The crisis in social work education deepened this week as the Department for Education and Employment announced that there will be no funding concessions to halt sharply falling applications. Since...
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Odds-on art
(Photograph) - Leeds College of Art student Anna Wiggins has placed a Pounds 41 bet with William Hill at 500-1 odds on her winning the Turner Prize within 15 years. She is displaying 41 letters...
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Lecturers threaten strike in pay-cut row
SENIOR lecturing staff at NESCOT, Epsom's further and higher education college (formerly North East Surrey College of Technology) are threatening to strike after being told they must take a Pounds 5,...
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Food research centre moves to improve
The Institute of Food Research will close its Reading site, with the loss of 60 staff. The institute will be consolidated at Norwich, where 100 jobs will be created. A spokeswoman for the...
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Prospectuses a waste of resources?
Thousands of pounds spent by universities on prospectuses and on-line information could be going to waste, according to a survey that shows less than 40 per cent of potential students actually read...