UNIONIST politicians and Protestant clergy have come out strongly against Mary McAleese becoming the next president of Ireland. But despite a systematic campaign attempting to rubbish her credentials...
FOUR hall tutors are resisting eviction by their employer, Manchester University, which has decided they have been looking after students for too long. The hall tutors have a total of 80 years'...
NORTHERN College of Education, badly hit in the research assessment exercise and this year's funding round, is seeking a merger with Aberdeen and Dundee universities. The college, which has campuses...
THAMES Valley University's high-tech "new learning environment", held up by the government as a model for the future of higher education, is in chaos because of timetabling and exam resit problems....
LIBRARIES need a Pounds 770 million investment before they will be ready for the lifelong learning revolution, says a Department for Culture, Media and Sport report out this week. It calls for the...
WHEN the Scottish devolution bill is published later this year it will exclude foreign affairs and defence. These will remain in the hands of Westminster as United Kingdom concerns. But what if...
As Labour ploughs on with higher education reform, Huw Richards scans the horizon for political opponents "We haven't lost a vote at conference for three years now - but what's more important is that...
A SCIENTIST at a leading Glasgow research institute has been jailed for three months after being found guilty of accessing child pornography on the Internet. George Reid, a research scientist at the...
THE GENERAL Teaching Council will today make a bid to control the training of university academics in a move which is already meeting widespread resistance in higher education, writes Alison Utley....
ITALIAN professori are for the first time facing the sack for absenteeism and low productivity. The dismissal of 30 doctors teaching at Milan University's medical school has been demanded by the head...
CAMBRIDGE University, which was last year condemned by students for accepting Pounds 1.5 million from British American Tobacco for a chair in international relations, has welcomed an initiative by a...
Dearing on FE franchising: committee has right idea It was recognised universally that the most important recommendations of the Dearing report would be on funding but many commentators felt its...
The most important message from Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (THES, October 10) is that of the responsibility we academics owe to our students. It is essential that we openly recognise that different...
Andrew Adonis's diagnosis (THES, October 10) of the influence of Oxbridge is sound but does not go far enough. No other country has two universities which are so uniquely different from the rest of...
MARTHA Nussbaum provides a welcome challenge to the vocational trend in higher education (THES, October 3). However, if what she recommends can be summed up as liberal education for citizenship, we...