Five prepare for Natfhe ballot
FIVE candidates will contest the election for general secretary of the lecturers' union Natfhe, writes Alan Thomson. The five will fight a five-week campaign for the post which has remained vacant...
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Fry quip stokes a drugs fire
DUNDEE University was quick to play down reports this week of a row over alleged pro-drugs remarks made by its student-elected rector, the writer and actor Stephen Fry. There was press speculation...
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Deficit day looms for universities
MORE than half of the universities and higher education colleges in England will be in deficit within two years, latest funding council figures show. By the 1999/2000 academic year, the sector...
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Seamless study for Staffs locals
STAFFORDSHIRE University is close to completing a unique project that will provide seamless education from basic skills to degrees. The university's Pounds 3.2 million campus is part of a joint...
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Views from the podium
LECTURERS are too scared of losing their jobs to be openly critical of new teaching methods but some at a traditional university in thenorth of England agreed to air their views anonymously. "In...
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Southampton's Spanish step to beat EC red tape
THE SUBJECT of Europe is rapidly becoming as contentious in British higher education as in politics. Universities and colleges are beginning to view the bureaucratic machinery supporting the mobility...
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Groups pave the way to work
GETTING students to work together on group projects is gradually catching on as a way of preparing students for work. But assessing such assignments has been a major obstacle, writes Alison Utley....
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Sages on stage loath to change
MANY lecturers are refusing to budge in the face of pressure to step down from the podium and embrace innovative teaching methods that hand authority back to the student. "The defensive tendency of...
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Shared bar bugs students
CAMBRIDGE University colleges are neglecting their students in the pursuit of private money, according to student leaders. Lucy Moses, president of Homerton College students union, said: "I...
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Oxbridge gives case for its fees
IT REPRESENTS a third of the money withdrawn from further education colleges this year for growth and roughly matches the spending by research councils so far on BSE. But is the Pounds 35 million in...
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A woman who would be president
THERE is one vote Mary McAleese cannot count on in next week's election for the president of Ireland: her own. Though entitled to be a candidate, and even having a holiday home in the Republic, the...
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Talks 'excluded' Irish communities
THE HISTORIC handshake between prime minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has been followed by the launch of an academic book on the peace process. The book is edited by Chris...
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Oddities of life on the benches
CHRONIC overcrowding, allegations of crudely sexist behaviour, public assumptions that you have absurdly long holidays. It would be easy to assume that academics who become Members of Parliament will...
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Bangor launch
THE University of Wales Bangor this week launched its Institute of Medical and Social Care Research, which is likely to coordinate Bangor's dementia action research programme, writes Iola Smith. The...
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... Many happy returns
"I NEVER had ambitions to be a bureaucrat," says the outgoing head of PPARC, Ken Pounds. After four years as the council's first chief executive, Professor Pounds says he is quite happy to be...