Headteachers demand clarity on selection
Independent school heads are demanding further clarity on how universities select students. A statement issued yesterday by four independent schools' heads' associations says: "No government should...
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Next week
News Countdown to cash: first in a series setting out the issues faced by next month's white paper Features A day in the life of Mike Brown, vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University; Keith...
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Choice managerial words
Fed-up with bureaucrat-ese? The THES wants to hear from you. Send examples of your favourite examples of management speak to mandy.garner@thes.co.uk We will publish the best.
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Sykes and two cities
"Sykes to bring science to the people" screamed the headline on an email arriving from the University of Bristol. Given that Sir Richard Sykes last week announced his intention to merge Imperial...
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Clean-living launch
Television historians clashed in Oxford this week as Tristram Hunt and Simon Schama launched their latest books. Dr Hunt is well known for his literalism: during his BBC series on the English civil...
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Cosmic injustice?
The passage of time seems not to have eased Jocelyn Bell Burnell's feelings about the 1974 Nobel prize for physics. Antony Hewish won it for the discovery of pulsars, the bizarre rotating remains of...
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Party poopers
Pub and club owners in Austria are threatening legal action against students who organise large student parties. Business owners, particularly in smaller cities such as Salzburg, have complained that...
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All for one?
News reaches The Diary from Liverpool John Moores University where elections are being held for the academic board. Three professors will be allowed to sit on the board. Ballot forms listing six...
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Tune in to turn-offs
A Norwegian lecturer has launched a campaign to get more ugly people on to the nation's television shows. Trond Andresen, of the Norwegian Institute of Technology, said that journalists,...
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Taking top jobs
Congratulations to Hilary Hurd, who was one of the first recipients of a Daphne Jackson fellowship and now, 12 years later, has been appointed professor of parasitology at Keele University. Best...
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Training hospital gets £25m injection
* Leicester and De Montfort universities have signed a private finance deal worth more than £400 million. The deal will invest £25 million in academic facilities at Leicester General Hospital....
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Sir Anthony Greener appointed QCA chair
Sir Anthony Greener, deputy chairman of British Telecom and chairman of the University for Industry, has been appointed chairman of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority on an interim basis...
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Cultural school to move into Sheffield centre
Sheffield Hallam University's School of Cultural Studies is to be relocated to a city-centre site after a £17 million investment was agreed by the university's board of governors this week.
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College staff vote to strike over pay
College staff are promising fireworks in their campaign for better pay, as five college-sector trade unions are set to hold their first joint strike on bonfire night, November 5. Members of Unison...
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Appeal to save Queen's classical languages
Members of the ruling senate at Queen's University, Belfast, were due to meet today to hear an appeal to overturn a decision to close its classical languages department. But a u-turn could upset vice...