Natfhe deficit
The national executive of Natfhe, which faces a Pounds 1million shortfall in income, voted last week to hold a special rules conference in December. The union's membership has fallen by 10 per cent...
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Nerve centre opens
A new Pounds 1 million neurosciences research institute, which opened yesterday at Dundee University is expected to raise Pounds 3 million of research income over the next five years.
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Loss leaders
Britain led the world in this week's Ig Nobel prizes, awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research for research which "cannot or should not be reproduced". The economics prize went to Nick Leeson,...
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Internet news
Have your say on the issue of student funding. This week The THES is putting the student-produced New Solutions document and questionnaire (page 8) on the Internet. Every week Thesis, The THES...
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Indian appraisal upsets chiefs
Staff at once troubled Bournemouth University have decided to turn the tables on their managers and scrutinise their performance by setting up their own appraisal system. So far the initiative,...
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Absolutely lovely
(Photograph) - Absolutely lovely: The Royal College of Art's watering hole, the Absolut ArtBar, looks new. But it has had more than a splash of paint. Thanks to sponsorship from the spirits company...
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New Solutions, old problems
New Solutions, an independent group of over 100 student union officers of various political hues, has launched a consultation document this week to further debate on student funding. The document,...
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Call for central control
A central planning agency is urgently required to make higher education meet the needs of a modern learning society, ministers have been told. The agency should preside over funding incentives and...
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SA charts own course
South Africa's education minister will not be seeking long-term British aid for his country's hard-pressed universities when he meets Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment...
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Colleges have to pay back money
Large numbers of further education colleges are having to give back money to their funding council this month because they failed to count their student numbers accurately. The first full external...
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Famous Seamus
Seamus Heaney admits to Simon Targett that even Nobel laureates get embarrassed giving low marks to favourite students. He looked like a farmer with dress sense. His burly agricultural frame, topped...
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Bengali Brahmin meets Berkeley
Bharati Mukherjee tells Ronald Warwick about her transformation from high-caste Indian into American writer. I met Bharati Mukherjee in Holland where she was launching the Dutch translation of her...
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The Lady who turned to nationalisation
Simon Jenkins analyses how Margaret Thatcher brought higher education to heel. Why are our universities so timid? As they steel themselves to respond to Gillian Shephard's higher education review,...
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Mature apprentice seeks titled role
Robert Oxtoby argues that institutions that can award degrees should be allowed to call themselves universities. Every now and then during the past 150 years, the higher education community in...
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Book move may net VAT
Joe Sinyor (THES, October 6) is correct to assume that the collapse of the Net Book Agreement will have a marginal impact on the price of core textbooks. My concern is that in the short to medium...