Soton managers set for showdown
GOVERNORS and managers at Southampton Institute are preparing for a showdown over calls in an independent report for "a different style of leadership". David Leyland, the institute's director, has...
Search
-
-
Loan silence
The best advice for students planning to ring the Student Loans Company's advice line may be to ring the National Union of Students Scotland instead. The union rang the advice line to check the loan...
-
Red alert
After Hong Kong, higher education? Those who wish to draw alarming conclusions about the possible future course of funding policy from the decorations chosen by senior staff at the Higher Education...
-
Modesty policy
Hacks attending the unveiling of the Scottish Office white paper on education and training bluntly demanded to know why deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine was on the presentation committee. Mr...
-
Dickens twist
There should be some fun next time quality assessors visit the English department at the University of Pune, India. Examiners there followed last year's triumph of relocating an Arthur Miller...
-
Lift let down
Long before the single post-16 sector, college chiefs and vice chancellors agree on one thing, the inadequacy of the v-cs' soon-to-be-vacated headquarters. Seeking offices to match his designer...
-
Mission statement
Dundee University's vice principal, David Swinfen, recently writing a column in the staff newsletter in the absence of principal Ian Graham-Bryce, dreamed of revolution and a university Jaguar car...
-
Charterhouse blues
As we all know - or at least have been told often enough - declining levels of numeracy are the fault of trendy teaching methods. Those who doubt this should note the example of alumnus to be proud...
-
Business schools bid for market funding
THE ASSOCIATION of Business Schools will take its campaign for a market-led funding allocation system to Sir Ron Dearing next week, bolstered by new figures which show that the master of business...
-
Moser backs loans
SIR CLAUS Moser, chancellor of Keele University, says he sees "no alternative" to the introduction of a full-scale loans system for students to help alleviate the problems of a cash-strapped higher...
-
Halls rent rise tops inflation
STUDENTS have been hit by rent rises in halls of residence as universities try to recoup income lost through capital-funding cuts, according to a new report. The National Union of Students survey of...
-
Halls rent rise tops inflation
* Student residences have been exempted from a new scheme to regulate landlords, writes Chris Johnston. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has convinced the Government that universities...
-
Quality of food creates strain
POOR food and facilities are just two of the problems endured by City University students paying some of the highest hall of residence rents in the country, according to the welfare office. The...
-
Top paid v-cs pull ahead
In the third THES top people's pay survey we are able to draw direct comparisons for the first time between pay over two consecutive years, because 1995-96 was the second year in which institutions...
-
Treating child sexual abuse as a true crime
NO SINGLE agency should be expected to solve the problem of child sexual abuse, according to a researcher based at Edinburgh University. Sarah Nelson, research fellow in sociology, argues that child...