Funding council boosts PFI sales pitch
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has announced new arrangements for assessing Private Finance Initiative projects that could make them more attractive to potential private sector...
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Manchester secures electronic journals deal
Manchester University's computing service has teamed up with Swets, a firm specialising in managing subscriptions for libraries, to form a consortium that will manage electronic journal provision in...
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BBSRC pumps Pounds 2.6m into regional centres
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council this week gave Pounds 2.6 million for its first two collaborative centres for structural biology at the University of York, and jointly at...
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Gift-book
(Photograph) - David Munro, director of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, examines part of the collection of papers and books of one of Britain's leading postwar geographers. Terry Coppock,...
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Two sides of the argument
THES reporters round up some of the latest industrial tribunal cases in universities and colleges A lecturer sacked for gross misconduct after allegations of sexual misconduct has appealed to...
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Two sides of the argument
THES reporters round up some of the latest industrial tribunal cases in universities and colleges Wakefield College said this week it was facing a compensation bill of up to Pounds 300,000 following...
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Euro sex change
Eurosceptics have long doubted the accuracy of statistics emanating from Brussels. Evidence has now emerged of a possible scam to boost the numbers of senior women in higher education. John Sizer,...
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Pregnant pause
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has begun a travelling roadshow promoting best practice in widening access, based on 11 examples from England, four from Scotland and one from Wales....
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Car plant
Antithesis's spring jaunt to Japan last week revealed one of the problems of a snappy title for a new project. Masanori Iye, director of the Pounds 160 million Subaru telescope, which the National...
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Howlers invited
"After five years she returned Hardy's ring, which hit him very hard." Just as surely as deluged bank holidays, crisis at Manchester City and worries about sterling, comes the examination season, and...
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Dress minister
Delayed flights from a promotional trip to the United States meant Scottish education minister Brian Wilson had a wild dash from the airport to speak at a Scottish Office-Scottish Higher Education...
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Bad Will
Alumnus to be proud of No 172 has won plaudits for intelligence and creativity as an England rugby player. Unfortunately, Will Greenwood was caught using his head in a less constructive manner -...
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Ofsted style is set for the dustbin
Quality watchdogs are expecting to win support for a new quality assurance system that avoids Ofsted-style inspections. They say higher education leaders are showing signs of backing plans that would...
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Trouble in store for new quality regime
The Quality Assurance Agency could find itself in conflict with the new Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, a former quality chief has warned, writes Tony Tysome. In a paper...
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Art rises to time's challenge
Artists at the London Institute and physicists at Cern, Europe's particle-smashing laboratory in Geneva, plan to collaborate to bring the mysteries of time and the sub-atomic world to the public. Ken...