In brief
University staff need not be surprised at the failure to improve their salaries or at the government's insistence on imposing a heavy research and assessment system when The THES can publish an...
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Thought for food
Tim Lang regards BSE as inadequate application of science, not poor communication of science ("The sour, unsavoury taste of food standards", THES, January 21). Yet he takes the nutritional impact of...
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Troubled college chief 'seconded'
Melton Mowbray College is set to be taken over by a Further Education Funding Council troubleshooter as principal Ken Masters leaves the college on long-term leave. Sources close to the college and...
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Eyewitness
Canada's bilingual ideals are crumbling under the policies of one of its provincial governments. Ontario Conservatives have been cutting a tier of government and amalgamating municipal services by...
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St Petersburg
Russia's acting president, Vladimir Putin, has been made an honorary member of the scientific council of the law faculty of St Petersburg University, his alma mater. President Putin, a native of the...
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Nursing a grudge
I take issue with the tone of Claire Sanders's article ("Practice makes perfect?" THES, January 21), which implies that there is something wrong with the way nursing education is delivered. There is...
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'Mockery' made of inquiry
Student support: Cubie compromise for Scotland, Blunkett boost for rest of UK Scottish students reacted with anger at the Scottish Executive's refusal this week to implement in full the Cubie report...
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Blunkett deal a policy 'U-turn'
Student grants are to be reintroduced in England and Wales, prompting claims of a government U-turn that leaves its undergraduate support policy in tatters, writes Alan Thomson. Education secretary...
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European law dictates what makes a Scottish student
The most contentious proposal is to abolish fees for Scottish students in Scotland, while Scots studying elsewhere in the United Kingdom will continue to pay fees. A Scottish student is one who was...
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Kinshasa
Security agents disrupted a rally by students from the Universite Nationale of the Democratic Republic of Congo outside the home of Olinga Koy, a former university teacher and a leading opposition...
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Pupils delay university choice
More students are delaying applying to university, according to figures released today by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. The number of potential students who applied by the...
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Pole position
(Photograph) - Pole position: Wladyslaw Bednarowski, 94, a former reader in logic at Aberdeen University, has endowed a trust to promote Polish and Scottish academic ties. Dr Bednarowski became a...
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Branson contacted to fund fertility work
In vitro fertilisation pioneer Simon Fishel told the High Court this week that as part of a push to attract high-profile financial support to Nottingham University, he asked Richard Branson to back a...
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Keele biomedic accused of research fraud
An internationally acclaimed biomedical engineer and his personal assistant defrauded the University of Keele and a health authority of thousands of pounds earmarked for research projects, a court...
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Chelsea sets sites on MoD Millbank
A bid by Chelsea College of Art and Design to move to Millbank, next to the Tate Gallery, has received a big boost with the gallery's trustees throwing their weight behind the plan. The site, the...