Grants plummet
The number of higher education discretionary grants awarded dropped by 71 per cent from 1984 to 1994, and spending on them fell by 81 per cent in real terms, Government figures published this week...
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Oxford overhaul
Oxford University should overhaul its system of government, according to an internally commissioned report. Plans to streamline Oxford's decision-making machinery and bring in more independent...
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Jobs list planned
A new national employment service for lecturers in further education is being launched this week. Nord Anglia Education said it would create a national register offering lecturers increased mobility...
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Middle East accord
Jewish and Palestinian student groups in Britain have issued a joint statement condemning terrorism and committing both sides to the Middle East peace process. The Union of Jewish Students and the...
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Funding threat to health placements
Final-year physiotherapy students may be unable to finish their courses this summer because funding has been withdrawn for their clinical placements. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists has...
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Budget cuts are not gains
While universities have to accept that continual demands for efficiency gains are inevitable, last year's budget cuts go far beyond anything which can be described as promoting efficiency, Brian...
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HEFCE will be 'less of a nanny'
Universities and colleges have been given greater freedom and responsibility in the management of their financial affairs, writes Tony Tysome. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has...
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Cooperate more to avoid 'suicide'
Universities must cooperate more if they are to avoid "suicidal" levels of competition, warned vice chancellors' chief executive Diane Warwick. Ms Warwick also told the Association of University...
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RAE discs jockey for success in Bristol
Universities and colleges are gearing up for higher education's most controversial competition, the Research Assessment Exercise. As the "census" date for research staff transfers passed and the end-...
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Little and large: UMIST vice chancellor Bob Boucher
(Photograph) - Little and large: UMIST vice chancellor Bob Boucher holds up a disc with the details of the university's submission to the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Research...
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Novelty and nature
Is there a gene that promotes risk? asks David King Are you a risk taker? Do you do things "just for kicks"? As a THES reader, perhaps not, but if you do, part of the reason may be genetic. Before...
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Long shelf life
So how much has academic library life changed in the past century? Extracts from the Edinburgh University Library archives for 1895-97 printed in the recent 100th issue of the library's news bulletin...
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He should know
Alumnus to be proud of no. 43 is man of letters A.N. Wilson, who recently regaled readers of the London Evening Standard with a short appreciation of the usefulness of higher education - arguing that...
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Vowel problem
A young Italian-speaking Eurocrat, making introductions in English at the fair, became confused over the pronunciation of EAIE, the acronym for the Educational Association for International Education...
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Unhappy birthday
And what did you do on your birthday? It would take someone with an extreme grievance against economic historians not to feel some sympathy for Roderick Floud, vice chancellor of London Guildhall...