Brick dropping two
One institution sure to have made an impression on Melville is Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham, whose principal, Tony Colton, chaired the APC dinner at which Melville spoke. Sadly for its...
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Film set
(Photograph) - Duncan Petrie, director of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, with some of its 60,000 pieces of cinema memorabilia. The collection was donated to...
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Funding allocations to colleges 1996/97
A listing of 1996/7 funding allocations to UK further education colleges, arranged in alphabetical order, appeared in The Times Higher Education Supplement today. It is not available on the database.
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Cambridge's dreaming aspirers attack outdated promotions system
Cambridge University dons are up in arms over the university's outdated professorial promotions system, condemning it as "humiliating", riven by "favouritism" and tarnished by "skulduggery". Senior...
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Dogged breed
Any vice chancellors tempted to gamble their way out of financial problems should heed the findings of research at Southampton University, which shows why "going to the dogs" is such a bad idea....
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Caped crusader
A photospread in The Scotsman on distinctive dressers includes the flamboyant Edinburgh University historian Owen Dudley Edwards, who explains: "I'm wearing a deerstalker which I bought in Dublin;...
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Being direct
Standards at Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education, have improved over the past seven days. This is after a low point, reported in last week's Antithesis, when Ofsted wrote to: Professor N. K...
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Particle blast-off
Another year, another Forward Look, that tome of statistics and statements on Government policy on science, engineering and technology across all departments. This year, though, the cash-strapped...
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Litter bugs
Anyone travelling on the London Underground can hardly have failed to notice the extensive poster campaign conducted by the University of Westminster extolling the quality of their provision in...
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Brick dropping one
Further education has already won high marks for subtlety from David Melville, future chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council for England. News of his appointment, he told the...
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Trainspotting
In the week of the Railtrack flotation there can really be only one alumnus to be proud of. No 50 in our series is the man who back in the 1960s began the process the Government is now bent on...
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Bullies take the blame for stress-related illnesses
The Educational Institute of Scotland this week launched a campaign to combat bullying at work, which it believes may account for more than half of stress- related illnesses. It aims to agree anti-...
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Very model of a modular approach
The popular image of modular courses as incoherent "pick 'n' mix" programmes is unfounded, a national survey has concluded. Most modular systems set students on pre-determined paths rather than...
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Evolution of pop scientists
Why is Jon Turney so sour about John Brockman and so scornful of his authors (THES, May 10)? Brockman's achievement is to have persuaded regular scientists to write for a general audience. That has...
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UK last in G7 research league
The United Kingdom has notched up the lowest growth in expenditure on research and development over the past ten years among the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations, according to figures...