Sectors turn into rivals
Further and higher education are fighting it out for the non-traditional student market, according to a study published today. The study, The FE/HE Interface: A UK Perspective, says some new...
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Graduates diddled on tax coding
Hundreds of thousands of graduates may have paid too much tax because of the Government's failure to fix a faulty computer program. The error has been revealed by accountant Tommy Docherty, who...
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Duffy and the drink
The Association of University Teachers Scotland has been paying tribute to former honorary secretary John Duffy, who has been seconded from Edinburgh University's alcohol research group to be...
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The Martin principle
Setting new standards in the use of the language, or just foreshadowing the job-title changes sure to follow if and when institutes and colleges of higher education are given university status?...
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Spooky stuff
Headhunting is usually defined nowadays as the art of locating new bosses for institutions, but those responsible for finding a new warden for St Antony's College, Oxford, may find Sir Robin Renwick...
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Time for genuflection
So what are the real benefits of becoming a professor? Kathy Burk, newly ensconced in a history chair at University College, London, enlivened a highly entertaining inaugural on Anglo-American...
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Upwards and backwards
(Photograph) - Dr Bill Barnes of Exeter University, seen here in Kitley Caves, Devon, is using laser analysis of stalagmites to map historic weather patterns. His team have found evidence of the...
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Chinese whispers
One or two facts are likely to have been missing from a fact-finding tour for Chinese educationists around British further education colleges last week. Organised by the Association of Colleges, it...
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Mixed loyalties
Alumnus to be proud of No 71 is the newest recruit to the Liberal Democrat Party in the House of Commons, Peter Thurnham. Mr Thurnham's feat of representing two different parties in the same...
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German tops minority league
A comparative study of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union's 48 minority languages identifies German spoken in Belgium and Italy, and counted as a minority language by the EU...
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Caped crusader
(Photograph) - Batman Sarah Bundie scales the law faculty at Birmingham University to raise money for the renovation of the Great Hall
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Don's Diary
Thursday. Strike action threatened on London underground tomorrow. Demonstrate GNVQ-type competence in "using a variety of information sources" to seek alternative ways of reaching Heathrow, and...
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Rating scale should go
Scotland's teaching quality assessment system should be radically revised by abandoning its current four-point rating scale, using existing reward funds to boost institutions' plans to improve...
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High cost of assessment
THE Research Assessment Exercise is having a damagingly distorting effect on university business schools, says a report on the management education sector. The 1996 Survey on Learning Methods in UK...
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Lecturer brushes up Welsh
An academic appointed to a Welsh-language lectureship by the University of Wales, Bangor, has stopped teaching for a year while she takes Welsh lessons. Surrey-born Pam Michael, who has learned to...