Triesman lays claim to pay negotiating rights
David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, will today lay claim to pay negotiating rights for Scotland's new university sector. The management side of Scotland's new...
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Euro windfall lost in red tape blunder
Coventry University has lost more than £1 million of European funding because of a bureaucratic blunder. Three senior staff in the engineering school are facing disciplinary charges after a routine...
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Scots biology teachers embrace buddy system
Glasgow University researchers are today launching a "buddy" scheme with school biology teachers in a bid to give pupils a seamless transfer from school to higher education. Glasgow's institute of...
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SQA chief says sorry for results fiasco
The interim chief executive of the Scottish Qualifications Authority has unveiled a catalogue of internal problems ranging from rivalry and concerns about bullying to inadequate planning and software...
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Council pledges to rectify skills deficiency
Figures that show that almost a third of all British workers receive no formal training from their employers have been condemned as a "national disgrace" by Bryan Sanderson, chairman of the new...
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Sociologists plan to put subject back on map
A group of dissatisfied sociologists from across Europe is to meet up in Paris next week to discuss setting up a European Academy of Sociology. Sociologists want to restore the reputation of their...
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Laurie Taylor column
"Universities have broken Ucas anti-poaching rules by rubbishing other institutions"The THES, October 6 Professor Lapping, do you have a moment? What is it now, Maureen? A Mrs Doubleday wants to know...
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Wells inspired Orwell's 1984
A previously overlooked newspaper article written by George Orwell has hinted at the debt that 1984, arguably his finest novel, owed to a similarly bleak work by the Utopian science fiction writer H...
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Tea's good, but hold the milk
The British may always put the kettle on when faced with a crisis, yet a study suggests that our drinking habits may deprive us of tea's most beneficial properties. Scientists have found that regular...
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Sea tells price of progress
The first hints that the industrial revolution may have triggered a surge in the rate of sea level rise are beginning to emerge. Preliminary results of a pioneering study of salt marshes are...
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EU supports US link
European Union heads of government have given their support to a plan to establish a permanent broadband transatlantic telecommunications link between research and education centres of excellence in...
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Blood from First Nations people destroyed
A geneticist has agreed to destroy samples of blood he drew from a Canadian tribe in the early 1980s. Richard Ward, who is now at Oxford University, had been given permission to draw samples from 900...
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New head of Spain's research council named
The Spanish government has appointed physicist Rolf Tarrach head of the Spanish research council, CSIC. Tarrach, a distinguished scientist and specialist in quantum field and elemental particle...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday Revel in glorious new office at Keele, made possible by swift departure of colleague for life as deputy vice-chancellor. Will be able to accommodate increased tutorial sizes anticipated for...
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Star Turn
Students fall in love in his lectures on literature as theology. Is this God moving in mysterious ways, Domenico Pacitti asks Students signing up for Angelo Cecchini's American literature courses at...