Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE. Janet Bainbridge, divisional leader in chemical and biotechnological sciences, professor of biotechnology and food science. UNIVERSITY OF DERBY Professorships have been...
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Appointments
SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Garth Foster, chairman for the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union, has been appointed head of the environmental sciences department at the...
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Learning power
(Photograph) - This table, compiled by The THES, lists the outcomes of the teaching quality assessment exercise carried out in English universities and colleges by the Higher Education Funding...
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Nations and Nationalism
The journal Nations and Nationalism, reviewed in The THES on October 20, has five editors not four as listed. The fifth editor is Kelvin Knight.
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A winning ticket
In a competitive age, the more informed and knowledgeable the manager, the better the decision, argue David Knights and Chris Green. In these times of limited funds from the state, many academics are...
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Praise be Ford
Ken Mortimer argues that staff development in the car company giant is a prerequisite to survival in the brave new world of technology. Twenty-five years ago Ford was known as one of the best...
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Taking the debt plunge
The market for lending to universities is buoyant, but finance directors must know how to negotiate the currents, argues Andrew Jordan. To borrow or not to borrow, that is the question . . ." At...
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Song and dance acts
Lucy Hodges talks to some versatile men who know how to sell talent. Six years ago Graham Richards was a humble chemist at Brasenose College, Oxford, entirely dependent for his living on his academic...
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University earnings 1993-94
(Photograph) - British industry is dipping deeper into its pockets in order to fund research in the old universities. Government statistics show that industry spent Pounds 131.3 million on research...
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Mersey beats its drum
Peter Toyne is proud of Liverpool John Moores's partnerships in which money talks but academic judgement rules OK. Working in partnership with industry is the life-blood of the new universities -...
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Liverpool keeps it in the family
Arranged marriages often make sound business sense, argues Philip Love. In the popular view of recent history, the universities experienced a rude and long overdue awakening in the early 1980s. One...
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Fly from Heathrow at 7am with a brief stopover at Frankfurt and then by Ukraine Air International to Simferopol, capital of the Crimea. The flight is remarkably pleasant, as is the wine...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a double act who created a cultural icon: "My two dear friends came in the evening, and the last post brought a letter from Lupin in reply to mine. I read it aloud...
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Speaking Volumes: Mémoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangée
Jill Forbes on Simone de Beauvoir's Mémoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangée . I first came across Memoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangee in the Penguin translation published in 1963. I had just returned from a...
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Portugal suspends tuition fee law
The incoming Socialist government in Portugal is suspending the controversial tuition fee law as promised by leader Antonio Guterres in the party election manifesto. In its place students at state...