London don tops list at Pounds 220,000
The country's best-paid academic in a publicly funded institution earned Pounds 220,000 in 1997-98, The THES can reveal. He or she was based at the London Business School and earned more than the...
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Outsiders looking in
The inspectors who judge schools should evaluate our university teaching, argues Peter Knight. I recently gave evidence to the government's select committee on education and employment. The subject...
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'They should show solidarity with staff'
* "I think staff here at Leeds Metropolitan will be surprised by this and will want to start asking questions. At the very least there is a question of fairness to be answered. Academic salaries have...
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From mark to blemish
Excellence in public service won Sunderland University one of only two Cabinet Office "Charter Mark" awards given to the higher education sector in 1997. Sunderland's award stands until 2000, but the...
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Bill signals end for dismissals on the cheap
College managers have been known to admit privately that they may budget for unfair dismissal payouts when deciding to sack staff. With a maximum compensation of Pounds 12,000 at an industrial...
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In the news
When she retires this summer, Jenny Shackleton, 55, principal of troubled Wirral Metropolitan College, will have spent 26 years involved in further education. The past 12, in the politically charged...
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Don's Diary
Monday The week starts with a strange need - where to find a stuffed fox. We want to investigate maternal responsiveness in sows and need to acquire a predator. One phone call to a contact in the...
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On the move
Former governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten, 54, has been made chancellor of Newcastle University, where his eldest daughter Kate was an undergraduate. He hopes to promote the university abroad,...
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Glittering prizes
Wendy Bickmore, geneticist in the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh, has been awarded a $1 million (Pounds 570,000) James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in human genetics...
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The THES Diary
The Net of temptation Temptation arrived this month at Imperial College, London, in the form of a cash-for-qualifications offer through a mass email shot to students. The scam traders offered...
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Eye witness
In April Canada creates a new territory - Nunavut - to give an official and semi-autonomous home to its Inuit population. No one disputes that it will be costly to implement the 1993 Land Claim...
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Washington
George Lundberg, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association for nearly 20 years, has been fired after publishing a study revealing that most university students agreed with President...
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Delivering the impossible
When other research councils cannot do something, they go to the CLRC. Martin Ince reports. Life in a government laboratory ought to be a calming experience, but Bert Westwood runs one that is as...
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Copenhagen
A hunt for the remains of a meteorite thought to have landed in south-west Greenland in December 1997 has resulted in two specks of dust. They were found after three tons of snow had been melted and...
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Ouagadougou
Protesting academics and students have rejected a request by Blaise Campaore, president of Burkina Faso and chairman of the Organisation of African Unity, to sit on an inquiry into the death of a...