Chemical scores are giving some a headache
Physics and chemistry are in trouble. Physicists blame falling student numbers and cuts, while chemists finger the research assessment exercise the future of chemistry is in the balance at two...
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Merging moment
Two higher education unions with a combined strength of more than 40,000 are due to merge later this year. The Association of University and College Lecturers is looking to merge officially with the...
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Reading delay
A private member's bill to establish a General Teaching Council, up for debate in the House of Commons today, looks unlikely to get its second reading because of other items on the list for debate...
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Cuts cut back
Cuts to the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme have been restored following a meeting of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The grant for 1996/97 will be Pounds 10 million,...
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Homes left alone
Academics have condemned the Government's decision to halt the General Household Survey, which gives an annual snapshot of social, living and working arrangements in 10,000 households. The Office of...
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Jordan forges Malaysian link
THE AL al-Bayt university in Jordan has applied to set up a branch campus in Kuantan, West Malaysia. About 800 Malaysian students study at the university in Jordan. Its degrees are recognised by...
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Get chartered
Universities and colleges have been urged to apply for a Charter Mark by Lord Henley. The education and employment minister said none were awarded in higher education last year. The scheme recognises...
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Brum goes Pounds 1m in red
THE UNIVERSITY of Birmingham has a Pounds 1 million projected deficit for next year and is planning up to 15 job cuts, but no top-up fees. Its prospectus has gone to the printers without the "health...
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Staff get under Pounds 4 an hour
THE Transport and General Workers Union has delivered a four-point submission to the Dearing committee highlighting the poor pay and conditions of the higher education sector's 32,000 manual and...
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Crunch time for fee warning
MOST universities have to decide this month whether to include a disclaimer in their 1998 prospectuses warning that fees could be introduced. Advice issued last month to the Committee of Vice...
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College saves with profit-related pay
UNIVERSITY College London is considering a profit-related pay scheme even though tax relief on PRP will soon be phased out. Provost Sir Derek Roberts said the proposal was unrelated to attempts to...
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Lecturers set to break rules
LECTURERS in the old universities have voted to escalate industrial action in the dispute over pay, potentially fracturing the unity forged by higher education unions. The Association of University...
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Grassed up
So where did the spirit of 1968 go? Perhaps the Solomon Islands, where deputy prime minister Danny Phillips has accused students of contributing to the mounting problems of marijuana use. Students...
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Guest blitz
Bad news for those who look forward to the annual Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals' garden party. CVCP parliamentary worker Mary Morgan, long-time vigilant gatekeeper for the event, got...
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Phil the beak
None of this wishy-washy business about being kind to the animal kingdom at the Open University. A poster seen on noticeboards this week promises a seminar with a speaker from the "Royal Society for...