Oxford backs sport for all
Oxford University is reappraising its historical drive for sporting excellence in "old boys" areas such as rugby and rowing, in a move to lose its old-fashioned, elitist image. Resources will be...
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Lancaster tutor files grievance
The University of Lancaster has failed to prevent harassment of women staff and students by a group of unruly football players, according to senior tutor Caroline Giles. Ms Giles this week instigated...
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Cambridge gain unfair to rivals
Rival universities are uneasy about the government's decision to hand Cambridge University an exclusive grant to foster scientific enterprise. It is 50 times more than the average sum given to any...
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A question of principal
'The two most senior of Mr Douglas's posts were never advertised. Article seven of colleges' statutory instruments states that a vacancy for "a senior post shall be advertised nationally"'. Ministers...
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Your economy needs you!
Universities are busy preparing their case for more cash in the next spending round. THES reporters demonstrate how they benefit the economy A fly on the Treasury wall might recently have seen the...
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A booming business
Higher education in the UK was earning more four years ago than the British computer manufacturing, plastics or office equipment industries. A report that the vice-chancellors will use to back their...
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Strings on pay cash angers Oz
Greek Cypriot students wave Greek flags at a checkpoint dividing the island during a protest to mark the anniversary of the declaration of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The island has been...
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Spanish rector's power struggle splits his staff
A Spanish university is considering amending its statutes to allow its rector to seek a third term of office. Staff at La Coruna University are divided over the campaign to allow Jose Luis Meilan to...
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Knowledge is strength
"In the next century, the engine of growth will be the process through which can economy creates, applies and extracts value from knowledge." So said Charles Leadbeater of Demos, allegedly Tony Blair...
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Don's diary
Saturday Several key staff come in to make final preparations for their teaching quality assessment. Seek final statistics on 1999 student entry. Secretary asks: "Do you want sex?" then collapses...
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Mayor be not
One wonders who is responsible for strategic decision-making at the Association of MBAs, which recently announced a new speaker for its annual dinner. The event, usually held this month, had to be...
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Religion of two halves
The Scottish football team's defeat at Hampden Park, compounded by a victory at Wembley that still excluded it from the European cup, could leave many distraught supporters turning to God. So it was...
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A shadowy presence
Sharp diary eyes were alerted by a press release from "Liberal Democrat shadow department for education and employment secretary Phil Willis". Surely the term "shadow" can only apply to Conservative...
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Some talk ain't cheap
Glasgow University's John Dunn, reporting in the staff newsletter on the latest senate meeting, reveals that senators "levelled the most fearsome of accusations with a courtesy, a graciousness and a...
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On the move
Gordon Marshall, fellow in sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford, has been appointed chief executive and deputy chairman of the Economic and Social Research Council. He will succeed Ronald Amann on...