Strike still looms at Sheffield
Union leaders renewed threats of industrial action at Sheffield College this week, as dozens of staff received official letters warning them they might lose their jobs, writes Tony Tysome. Officials...
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On the move
Bill Morris, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, has been installed as chancellor of the new University of Technology in Jamaica. Paul Light, pro vice-chancellor at...
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Not enough to stop the brain drain
Steve Farrar and Giselle Weiss round up the responses to thegovernment's white paper on science and innovation, Excellence and Opportunity, while below is a summary of the paper's main points The...
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First-years denied new rooms
More than 300 students starting at Imperial College, London, in October will be denied accommodation in newly refurbished halls after the builders doing the work went bust. James Longley and Company...
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Heads accept visitors doomed
Vice-chancellors are ready to accept an ombudsman to handle complaints by students and staff, as old universities reluctantly concede the demise of the visitor system, writes Phil Baty. Early results...
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Halesowen rapped
Public funds have been misused at Halesowen College, where "inappropriate payments to governors" were uncovered by funding chiefs. The Further Education Funding Council said governors at the Midlands...
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Surrey staff shortages take toll on courses
The University of Surrey, facing growing pressure after anonymous complaints about under-investment in staff, told The THES last week that it has one of the most favourable staff-student ratios of UK...
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Cambridge makes student wait nine months
Cambridge University took more than nine months to confirm to a self-funded American postgraduate student that it has no procedures for hearing her academic appeal. The university confirmed that it...
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The knowledge incendiary
John Harwood, head of the new LSC, tells Tony Tysome how he hopes to keep the flame of learning burning bright A mayor of Curitiba in Brazil had a vision for lifelong learning that has left a lasting...
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Sir Aaron Klug
Royal Society involvement in finding up to 50 researchers to benefit from "brain gain" money announced in this week's science white paper may be controversial, but for Royal Society president Aaron...
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Glittering prizes
Blind Date host Cilla Black has been installed as an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University, six years after declining the honour because students objected. Departing LJMU vice-...
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Not so bright sparks
The colourful programme for the British Association's Festival of Science, Creating Sparks, promises a host of delights for the autumn, including a talk by Tony Fitzpatrick of Ove Arup and Partners...
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The Hefce to success
Smirks all round at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, which recently commissioned a Mori poll to evaluate its own performance. This found that "Hefce is commonly described as...
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Turin
The University of Turin and the city's Teatro Stabileareto are to collaborate in running Italy's first diploma course in the theory and practice of theatre technique. The Teatro's new director,...
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Dalibor Vukovic
(Photograph) - Serb student Dalibor Vukovic leaves Unmik police custody in Kososvka Mitrovica on the Serbian border. His detention for alleging slapping an ethnic Albanian provoked two days of...