Edinburgh pays sacked lecturer to shut up
Edinburgh University has paid Pounds 12,000 compensation to Chris Brand, the psychology lecturer it sacked for "gross misconduct" following a row over his views on race and paedophilia, condemned by...
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Middlesex to close engineering school
Middlesex University has announced it is to close its school of engineering systems in July 2000 because of under-recruitment of students. The university said it has had problems with under-...
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High Tec
(Photograph) - Michael Davies and David Scourfield, undertaking training at GE Aircraft Engine Services, Mid Glamorgan, will be among the last modern apprentices to be funded by the training and...
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Record number of GNVQs
A record number of school and college students have gained GNVQs this year. Figures published by awarding bodies show 104,108 students gained GNVQs compared with 92,036 last year. The number gaining...
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Don's diary
Friday With a week to go before publication, my colleagues and I travel to the west coast of England to present our research findings to the workforce and union representatives at the nuclear...
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NHS docs study art to become more humane
Doctors will be encouraged to explore their artistic side in a new scheme aiming to create a more humane national health service. The Nuffield Trust and the University of Durham have joined forces to...
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No F.O.nepotism
The headline "Blair's idea benefits big-wigs' children" (THES, October 15) was inaccurate and misleading. I am disappointed The THES chose to print the claim that the children of Foreign and...
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Let the law decide
I have often told the MP who is representing the case for a fair student appeal system that for this government to ask the Quality Assurance Agency to administer complaints-appeals procedures is like...
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Out of step
All indicators are that higher education is changing: numbers of part-time and mature students are growing all the time. Boundaries between higher and further education are getting smaller, with each...
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Get in the real world
It is refreshing to see that the Department of Trade and Industry is finally coming around to the view law teachers have been advocating for some time ("RAE faces axe", THES, October 29). If the...
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Competitive rents
Frosty rebuke, what nonsense! ("How they spend our rent", THES, October 29). Eleanor O'Keeffe accuses me of telling students they have no right to know how colleges spend their money. Far from it....
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Stick to quality
The report on the Quality Assurance Agency's qualification blueprint filled me with dread ("New rules will scrap 'negative' awards", THES, October 22). While there may be a need to standardise...
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Stick to quality
I am president of a college where students earn what we call associates degrees. I hope British institutions contemplating associates degrees think beyond the narrowly vocational ("Two-year...
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Professional balance
As chairman of an organisation that accredits higher education awards on behalf of the accountancy profession, I am concerned that professional recognition should not be seen as undermining academic...
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World watch
The European Commission is spending E8 million (Pounds 5 million) on staging a European Year of Languages in 2001. It will involve campaigns and grassroots projects to promote foreign language...