Rally for pay review
Your anonymous correspondent (THES, March ) is correct to identify our outdated system of pay determination as a major cause of declining pay levels. National collective bargaining, operating as it...
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A concerted offensive in quango land?
Attacks on educational research by education officials and quangos such as Ofsted must stop, argues Peter Mortimore WHY is educational research being attacked? Is it significantly worse than research...
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Drug-dealer student suspended and reported after THES article
BIRMINGHAM University student Andrew Lockley has been reported to the police and suspended from his degree course just weeks before finals for admitting using and supplying drugs in an article...
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Target failure forces job cuts
DOZENS of posts are to be axed, threatening course closures, at the University of East London as it struggles to balance its budget in the face of under-recruitment. Staff heard on Tuesday this week...
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Tower of strength: Andrew Pakes, the leader of the National Union of Students
(Photograph) - Tower of strength: Andrew Pakes, the newly-elected leader of the National Union of Students, vowed to carry on the fight against fees at the union's conference in Blackpool this week....
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Pounds 400m research ransom
THE government must spend at least an extra Pounds 400 million on research infrastructure if Britain's future prosperity is not to be put at risk, the powerful House of Commons science and technology...
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Engineers fire lone salvo at RAE
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has launched a blistering attack on the research assessment exercise in its submission to the funding council's consultation. It questions the...
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Oxford is doing all right, thank you
THE FEAR that Oxford is losing its ability to compete as a world-class institution expressed by Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, is unfounded, the chair of the university's international...
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Pay talks postponed after 'dismal' offer
THENEXT round of higher education pay negotiations will take place on April 22 after a meeting last Friday was postponed. Eight unions are representing higher education staff, and there is widespread...
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Northern Irish work their way through college
A National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland survey of further education students in Northern Ireland reveals they have an annual income of only Pounds 656 a year in grants, student...
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Merlin waves his biotechnological wand
Merlin Ventures, the biotechnology investment firm set up by academic-turned-entrepreneur Chris Evans, is pumping Pounds 10 million into three of its firms. ReNeuron, set up last year, will get...
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Scottish Wellcome for science
The Scottish Science Trust has won a Pounds 5 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to promote understanding of science and engineering through a network of science centres. Sir Donald MacKay, trust...
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Lecturer claims win
A SENIOR lecturer in economics has won Pounds 16,000 from London Guildhall University in an out-of-court settlement on the eve of an industrial tribunal in which she was to allege racial...
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Frame-up
(Photograph) - Frame-up: the walking frame has been transformed by researchers at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design working in collaboration with the design firm tangerine. The "Activ...
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Action taken to end race bias
THE FIRST major study of equal opportunities for academic staff, charged with putting an end to racial discrimination in British higher education, has been commissioned by an all-embracing consortium...