Rice loses job appeal
AN INDUSTRIAL tribunal has upheld the Medical Research Council's decision last year to dismiss Mary Rice from her post as head of public communication for publicly criticising the council's decision...
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Venus and Jupiter key to creativity
A PSYCHOLOGY lecturer's study of dyslexia among art students took a mystical turn when she offered to read students' horoscopes. Amateur astrologer Beverley Steffert, of Birkbeck College, London, was...
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Policy Studies Institute-Westminster merger
One of Britain's leading independent research bodies, the Policy Studies Institute, is set to merge with the University of Westminster in the new year. Pamela Meadows, PSI director, said that...
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Another meningitis death hits Southampton
A THIRD Southampton University fresher has died from meningitis. The latest case, the sixth to hit the university in the past month, was at a different hall of residence from the first five cases....
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Confidence vote goes against v-c King
ROGER King, vice chancellor of Lincolnshire and Humberside University, has been asked to resign in a vote of no confidence. Natfhe members are angry with what they claim is "undemocratic" management...
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Tribunal dismisses Evans's discrimination case
CAMBRIDGE lecturer Gill Evans has suffered the first blow in her crusade to change her university's procedures for promoting academic staff. After winning leave in the High Court in August for a...
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Anglia Polytechnic considers name change
GOVERNORS at Anglia Polytechnic University will debate whether to rename the institution the University of Eastern England at a meeting on December 4. Some believe the contradictory title causes...
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British astronomers go for Le Blob
BRITISH astronomers have discovered six new galaxies 10 billion light years from earth. The discoveries, made from the British observatory on Hawaii, suggest that dusty galaxies must have been much...
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Bidders for student loans announced
A SHORTLIST of successful bidders for the government's Pounds 1.6 billion sale of student debt was announced this week. They are: a consortium of Barclays Bank, BZW and Goldman Sachs; JP Morgan; a...
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Lampeter and Carmarthen ponder closer links
THE UNIVERSITY of Wales Lampeter and Trinity College, Carmarthen, an associate college of the university, are considering merging. Lampeter vice chancellor Keith Robbins said an inquiry, due to...
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Manchester University ordered to pay damages to Asif Qureshi
Manchester University has been ordered by an industrial tribunal to pay Pounds 44,880 damages for loss of earnings and injury to personal feelings to law lecturer Asif Qureshi. In July the university...
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Payouts for poor course
THE UNIVERSITY of Wales Cardiff has withdrawn two film production postgraduate diploma courses after paying out Pounds 24,000 in compensation to dissatisfied students. The university admitted its...
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Single agency report warns of more grant fraud
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines An increase in student grants fraud is possible if local authorities' awards role is replaced by a...
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TECs win training cash fight
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines The government's proposed new regional development agencies appear to have lost the fight to control...
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Consultants aim for personal touch
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines SEVEN regional consultants have started work under a new structure introduced by the Higher Education...