Bill delay causes fee chaos
THE government has admitted that delays in the House of Lords to the Teaching and Higher Education Bill could stop it being implemented in time for next academic year. The admission came in a letter...
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Lack of talented candidates threatens research
DEBT is deterring graduates from taking PhDs. Heads of research councils say the situation will worsen as tuition fees and higher loans are introduced this autumn. They are meeting to discuss ways of...
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Oxbridge to keep college fee
OXFORD and Cambridge universities will keep the college fee next year because there is not enough time left to scrap it. The two universities have been told the fee will remain in 1998-99 for...
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OU strains under cuts strategy
The Open University will have shed 200 staff and cut its student intake by 5,000 before the end of this year, according to accounts sent to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. In the...
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Business school chief 'did not bully'
Allegations of nepotism and bullying against Anglia Polytechnic business school head Hugh Jenkins have no foundation, the board of governors' audit and compliance committee has ruled. John Watts,...
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Employers choose their elite league
More than 25 per cent of employers recruit exclusively from an elite group of top universities, a two-year study of employers' attitudes will reveal next week. The GET Report: Graduate Employment and...
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Academy reward for medical science
The Academy of Medical Sciences was launched this week with 350 founder fellows nominated by its sponsors: the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges...
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IVF pioneer wins recognition for work
Reshmi Varma, the former director of St George's Hospital's fertility unit who claimed constructive dismissal against the school, has resolved her action amicably at an industrial tribunal. In a...
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Scots call for research assessment watchdog
The Scottish Universities Research Policy Consortium, which includes 14 universities and colleges, has called for a watchdog to ensure that research assessment criteria are applied fairly when...
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Corrections
In the THES survey of vice-chancellors' pay (February 6) the amount of Pounds 83,000 shown under the entry for Queen Margaret College includes both Joan Stringer's remuneration from her appointment...
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Internet
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, has a complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 available to all subscribers to the newspaper, who can reach the archive with a specially...
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Lecturers' pay team to meet
AN ADMIRAL, a businesswoman and a local authority chief executive will be among members of the new Independent Review Committee deciding future approaches to lecturers' pay. Full membership of the...
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Playing fields in sell-off
HOMELESS premier league football club Wimbledon is bidding against second division Fulham to secure playing fields owned by the University of London. But although Wimbledon is thought to have bid...
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Big science may be at risk
It would take the high-profile collapse of just one big collaborative science project for the whole system of joint funding for massive research facilities to be brought into question. Luke Georghiou...
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'Focus funds for success'
British funding for astronomy and particle physics may be spread too thinly and be producing too few results, according to the incoming chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research...