Overseas franchise warning
BRITISH universities and colleges involved in a burgeoning multi-billion pound overseas partnerships and franchising market have been warned to tighten their controls on quality. Most students on...
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Towers of strength
The quality and volume of research throughout British higher education has risen over the past four years, this week's results from the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise show. Former polytechnics and...
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Teaching formula flak
THE HIGHER Education Funding Council's proposed new funding method for teaching will mean cuts and departmental closures, academics are complaining. Geographers and psychologists have led a chorus of...
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An exercise in dexterity
INSTITUTIONAL outcomes from this year's Research Assessment Exercise show the importance of being able to work the system. Universities that used such skills, in particular by excluding non-research...
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O come all ye faithful
A scientist Christian, a retail management expert, a Jew and a Muslim tell The THES what Christmas means to them JOHN POLKINGHORNE, recently retired as president of Queens' College, Cambridge. His...
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Report criticises Soton's rule of fear
A DIFFERENT style of leadership is needed at Southampton Institute to help it improve quality, extend research, and consolidate following rapid expansion, a report published by the institute says. "...
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Dark side of the RAE
THE RESEARCH Assessment Exercise has destroyed attempts to raise the profile of teaching in universities, delegates at a conference on working in higher education heard this week. Maurice Kogan of...
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Santa clues
Nice to see the Christmas message of peace and goodwill has not yet taken over: this week's young people's lecture from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow was an illustrated talk...
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Weighty matters
It seems the research assessment exercise can leave those visited by panel members reeling in more senses than one. Martin Dodsworth, chairman of the English literature panel, said the weight of...
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A period of silence ...
Maintaining silence on outcomes in advance of the formal announcement also seems to have been a problem for some panel members. One seems to have found a way of defusing the temptation by emailing...
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Dialectical or what?
A starred five for political incorrectness to Ottilia Saxl of the Glasgow-based technology transfer centre. A delegate at the Royal Society Of Edinburgh's seminar on commercialising academic research...
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Kiwi fruit
Also due a good rating, in this case for inspired timing, is the University of Ulster and its sports scholarship programme. News of its Guinness sponsorship might have prompted much irony, had it not...
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Thanks, but no thanks
Now the dust has settled over the question of the next secretary-general of the United Nations, we can reveal one name that was not going to get very far, at least if its owner had anything to do...
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Frozen out?
Dundee University's staff news-letter Contact normally includes a column from the principal, Ian Graham-Bryce. But when the latest issue was being produced, the principal was in Antarctica convening...
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Mersey beat
Alumnus to be proud of No 82 is Mr C. H. Tung, a Liverpool University graduate in marine engineering whose appointment as the first chief executive of Hong Kong under Chinese rule is so deplorably...