Unions of unions
My comments on a possible Association of University Teachers/Natfhe merger may possibly have been sectoral, but they were certainly not sectarian - we who live in Northern Ireland know the meaning of...
Search
-
-
Sharing the chores
VALENTINE Cunningham (THES, January 30) may not be able to get his students to pay him for their references but he could get them to help with the work involved. He does not know, he says, "what it...
-
Don's Diary
Thursday I am just getting used to smallness: small country, small town and a tiny college. Vidzemes Augstskola (ViA), a new university college in Valmiera in northern Latvia, has only 200 students,...
-
Merger is the price of FE's new money
NEW money hardly ever comes with no price tag. The new money for further education has some clear conditions. One of these is the government's desire for rationalisation. We do not know how many...
-
Profit and schloss account
FOR 50 years the Salzburg Seminar has been a centre of intellectual exchange and debate for the world's emerging leaders. Launched in 1947 by three Harvard students, the seminar has sent more than 18...
-
Awards
Peter Jones Memorial Trophy The trophy, for distinguished service to the fish farming industry, has been awarded to Niall Bromage, professor of reproductive physiology and endocrinology and assistant...
-
Honorary Degrees
University of East London DUniv: Issa Shivji, professor of law at the University of Dar es Salaam; Hans Hoxter, pioneer in the training and education of counsellors; David Austin, rose breeder;...
-
Blackstone raises FE stakes
College governance will be made "open and fair" and lecturers will have to sit teacher training qualifications under the government's lifelong learning proposals to be set out later this month. In an...
-
BBSRC to revamp food institute
The Institute of Food Research faces rationalisation following a research council probe which concludes that the institute's two-site structure has "compromised" key multidisciplinary research. The...
-
Students bid to take over party
Students in Berlin are attempting a "hostile takeover" of a political party in a campaign to force through their demands for German higher education reform. More than 1,000 students have already...
-
Label of love
Students at the Southampton Institute of Higher Education have set up their own record label, First Degree Records. They plan to release a 15-track limited edition CD in the spring that will feature...
-
St Valentine's dark side
Love is ... often accompanied by a form of morbid romantic jealousy that is attracting the interest of psychiatrists. For such excessive emotion, known in psychiatry as the Othello syndrome, causes...
-
V-cs go local to contain Net costs
Australia's vice chancellors have put a price barrier on their gateway to the global Internet. Institutions will pay more to fetch a web page from overseas than they would pay to fetch the same page...
-
Institute scientists open 3D worlds to whole Web
Virtue Ltd, a company started by computer scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, will be at next week's VRML98 show in Monterey, California showing how Web users with modest PCs...
-
Teesside University to show a virtual reality representation of the sculpture, Angel of the North, at Tomorrow's World Live Event
Developers and researchers from the University of Teesside are showing a virtual reality representation of the controversial sculpture, Angel of the North, at the Tomorrow's World Live Event at the...