Tax dodgers spared axe
Staff at a new university have been offered a "no redundancy" clause by their vice chancellor if they join a profit-related pay scheme. The scheme has the support of lecturers' union Natfhe, but not...
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Governors vote out college chairman
The chairman of governors at a further education college has been forced to resign. George Mardle, a Keele University lecturer and chairman of Social Services at Staffordshire County Council, failed...
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Off the record
The CVCP clearly feels that it has had a good year, helping to provoke the creation of the Dearing review and, probably for the first time ever, winning press plaudits for political effectiveness....
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David Miller appointed chairman of Scottish Qualifications Authority
David Miller, chairman of the Scottish Examination Board and the Scottish Vocational Education Council, has been appointed chairman of the new Scottish Qualifications Authority, which will take over...
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Manchester's telecom canal
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Parma condemns lack of chances
The Council of Europe finds HE guilty of inequality, says Olga Wojtas. Higher education in Europe is guilty of reflecting and reinforcing inequalities in society, and should instead itself become a...
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Curriculum wars
What would a Labour government do with initial teacher training? Well, probably bring in a national curriculum for a start, says Michael Barber. Last week the Government announced that it had asked...
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Other conquests
I was interested to read in your Antithesis column (THES, September 13) the piece headlined "Norman's conquest". Contrary to your comment, Foster and Partners have been employed by no fewer than...
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Toil and trouble
Society needs hard facts about changing working patterns in order to plan for the future, argues Valerie Bayliss. What is really happening to the patterns of working lives and careers? Suddenly, all...
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Natfhe survey reveals stress
A survey has revealed high stress levels at Britain's largest university, sparking union claims that lecturers' health will suffer and educational quality will decline. The survey, by lecturers'...
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Padanian panic
The Council of Europe attracted the president of Italy, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, to the opening ceremony of its higher education access conference in Parma University last week. This was a mixed...
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Big worry is study not cash
Students are suffering greater stress from course difficulties than from financial problems, according to a psychology lecturer. Evelyn Monks of Glasgow Caledonian University found that the majority...
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Radio speeds up the Internet link
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Timetable for change
In contrast with European Union procedures to promote change in member states, the Council of Europe generally issues recommendations rather than legally binding conventions, recognising the enormous...
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Better debate now please
Increasingly, one comes close to despair about the quality of public discussion of education issues. Now we have Mary Warnock, apparently echoing George Walden, declaring that "the worst schools in...