Scots feathers ruffled by SUfI 'cuckoo' threat
Consensus politics has emerged in the Scottish Parliament over the Scottish University for Industry, with the government accepting an opposition amendment for an investigation into what value it adds...
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TVU report was 'flawed'
The landmark report that damned Thames Valley University as the first "failing" British university contains fundamental flaws, it was claimed this week. Documents obtained by The THES show that TVU...
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Being as good as the best
The Open University is 30, flourishing and serving as a role model to universities around the world, as Alison Goddard discovers "Blithering nonsense!" That's how heavyweight Tory politician Sir Iain...
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History of the OU
Planning for the Open University began in 1964, when Harold Wilson was elected prime minister. Mr Wilson had unveiled the concept of a university open to all adults in the United Kingdom the previous...
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The Knowledge Media Institute
The Knowledge Media Institute is the Open University's flagship research centre. It was established in 1995 to create and study near-term future technologies for the ultimate benefit of OU students,...
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Lecturers halt pay militancy
Lecturers have suspended industrial action in the old universities over this year's pay offer after more than five months. The decision, which the Association of University Teachers' executive put...
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Firms help square academic circle
Academics and industrialists mistrust one another. Neither group understands what motivates the other and they clash culturally. This was a common thread in a joint debate between 100 academics and...
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Budget cash for Bett ruled out
The government has again dashed lecturers' hopes of extra cash to fund the Bett pay recommendations days before the chancellor's pre-budget statement. Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks made it...
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Bosses take token line on training
Employers are tokenistic about lifelong learning and are turning the idea of "employability" into little more than a "hackneyed catchphrase", according to an Institute of Employment Studies report....
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Peter Lachmann
Peter Lachmann's recent clash with Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, over the latter's decision to publish Arpad Pusztai's GM potato research, made front-page headlines. The 67-year-old...
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On the move
Four new members have been appointed to the board of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. They are: Jenny Fitton, principal of Taunton's College, Southampton; Peter McKie, chairman of PHM...
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Glittering prizes
Stephen Hawking, Lucasian professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, has received the Albert Medal from the Royal Society of Arts. The medal, instituted in 1863 as a memorial to Prince...
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The THES Diary
Calling a prat a prat There was no beating about the bush for members of the Scottish Parliament last week when they discussed the government's document on the Scottish University for Industry, The...
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Eyewitness
Vatican efforts to clear Pope Pius XII of charges of having kept silent during the Holocaust or even charges of virulent anti-Semitism have hit an academic stumbling block. Early last month the...
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Angst about grey matter
Harvey Kaye describes how American academia is suffering from a bad case of the creeping fifties As a child I remember lying awake at night trying to fathom growing up and older. I specifically...