Techno jobs fear in FE
All further education colleges should be linked to a national information highway, a report commissioned by the Further Education Funding Council recommended this week. The network proposed in the...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. DLitt: William Clinton, president of the United States of America. Hon.degrees: Louis Blom-Cooper, appeal court judge; S. Poyntz, former bishop of Connor. UNIVERSITY OF...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. continued from last week Research grants Dr B. Kilbey, Pounds 1,551 from Medical Research Council (topoismerases of plasmodium falciparum) and Pounds 13,595 from MRC (...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. Robert Tebb, vice-warden of Devonshire Hall, has been awarded an honorary fellowship by Leeds College of Music. UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Honorary fellowships have been conferred...
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Chairs
BIRKBECK COLLEGE. Nick Bingham, formerly at Royal Holloway College, has been appointed chair of the statistics department; Nicola Lacey, lecturer and fellow of law at New College, Oxford, has been...
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Awards
Royal Northern College of Music. Andrew Sallis, RNCM composer, was awarded the silver medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. CIEMEN FOUNDATION Ned Thomas, director of the University of Wales...
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Appointments
SOMERVILLE COLLEGE, OXFORD. Fiona Caldicott, the first woman president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and chairman of the Conference of Medical Royal Colleges, has been elected principal. She...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Office inundated with questionnaires returned by alumni updating us on address changes, career developments, arrival of children, offers to help with work experience for students. All to be...
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Lecturers at West Kent College
Lecturers at West Kent College are being balloted on an all-out indefinite strike over proposals to cut 72 teaching jobs, writes Ben Osborne. Lecturers have been sent "at risk" notices specifying the...
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Momentum in Manchester
It would be a pity if your readers were left with the impression that Manchester's school of education is moving away from its traditional interests in British education ("Dynamic duo head south",...
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Nurturing a fragile plant
The quality planning group needs to grow some trust, says Lewis Elton. The Higher Education Funding Councils and the higher education sector have set up a joint planning group which will meet for the...
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Universities shape up for a turf war
The regional university looks set to play an important role in the future of British higher education. But is it a good thing? Like buses, universities tend to arrive in groups. After Oxbridge came...
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Yanks flee hostility
More than 200,000 Americans have migrated to Australia since the second world war. But research shows they are not warmly welcomed and that most Yanks go home. David Mosler, senior lecturer in...
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Hill faces chair fight
Law professor Anita Hill, still a deeply controversial figure four years after her claims that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her transfixed the nation, is to have a...
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China bans social sciences journal
China has ordered a new magazine, allied to the Academy of Social Sciences, to cease publishing. The magazine, which summarises some of the most up-to-date research under way in China's social...