(Photograph) - In the picture: Sharon Sansom of Sheffield and Morag McDonald of Newquay were among 50 state school teachers visiting Oxford this week as part of the university's campaign to attract...
Having only one female professor, my university may have been overlooked for your female professorial league table for 1996-97. It would be pleasant, however, to have had my existence acknowledged,...
No wonder women academics such as Anne Boddington have such difficulty with promotion ("going for promotion was 'like playing poker with loaded dice'"). Poker is a card game. David C Nicoll Regent...
NEW cash crises could hit the University of East London next year because it is "seriously adrift" from target levels of recruitment, an independent consultant has warned, writes Harriet Swain....
AGENCY staff will continue to be employed as lecturers at the University of Central England, in spite of criticism from teaching unions. The university plans to use Education Lecturing Services for...
Will terms and conditions be eroded as FE and HE institutions merge? The THES looks at the flashpoints A STAND-OFF over staff contracts is expected to blight the merger between Leeds Metropolitan...
Southampton University has clashed with King Alfred's College in Winchester over its use of the title "university college". The university, to which the college is accredited, has criticised it for...
The principal of University College of Ripon and York St John is to leave suddenly after governors froze his plans to restructure. A governors' meeting this week confirmed that he would leave next...
Smokescreens generated to befuddle the opposition over the Scottish tuition fees anomaly have claimed their first victim - Tony Blair. In fact, the PM was seriously disorientated when he told MPs...
Historian Conrad Russell had some advice for Blair as the House of Lords prepared to defy the government a second time on the issue of Scottish tuition fees. Margaret Thatcher, said Earl Russell,...
Education secretary David Blunkett may be blind but his insight is certainly undimmed. This much was clear when he cut Margaret Hodge short during Tuesday's education and employment committee hearing...
Critics of dome secretary Peter Mandelson's handling of the Greenwich project will be praying Tony Blair's threatened reshuffle really does mean Mandy getting booted upstairs to take over as culture...
Glasgow University lecturer Ron Thomson has been campaigning for improved campus road safety. He is deeply concerned about the risks to pedestrians from vehicles at one particular junction. Dr...
A conference of European liaison officers at Nottingham Trent University had an unusual after-dinner speech from Robert Ayres, the university's professor of the performing arts. Dressed in his...
University of Strathclyde Neville Baker, department of mechanical engineering, has been awarded the higher doctorate degree, doctor of science, for his work on processing, microstructure and...