Technical patches
New science minister Ian Taylor is considering setting up a group of vice chancellors and captains of industry to discuss boosting links between firms and universities. Outlining the Department of...
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OST inquiry
The transfer of the Office of Science and Technology to the Department of Trade and Industry will be the subject of an inquiry by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, as part of an...
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Internet news
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
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Ways and Mensa to get ahead
Warwick University is making a bid to recruit students with the highest IQ by collaborating with Mensa on a series of short degree-accredited courses. Mensa, the society for people with high IQs...
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Edwards urges AUT to action
Cyril Edwards, the professor who was made redundant by Goldsmiths College last year, is appealing to the Association of University Teachers not to drop its High Court action against the institution....
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Morale hits the pits at Anglia
A majority of staff in one faculty at Anglia Polytechnic University has passed a vote of no confidence in management following substantial redundancies. The 16 redundancies in the faculty of the...
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Silver book staff frozen out
Thousands of further education college lecturers are facing the imposition of a salary freeze for the second year running after the breakdown of pay talks. The Colleges' Employers' Forum is again...
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Quality time
The Higher Education Quality Council has published Managing for Quality: Stories and Strategies, which contains 56 case histories designed to steer academic leaders and managers through current...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. As the men's final at Wimbledon gets underway, I fall asleep feeling quite contented, having just consumed a splendid Sunday lunch at my parents' house. I have recently come "home" for the...
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Castro relaxes grip on jobs
Cubans with academic qualifications will be allowed to engage in private enterprise, according to a new ruling of the ministry of labour and social security. But there is a major restriction. They...
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Students spy on black sheep
Students at Oldenburg University in northern Germany will be encouraged to blow the whistle on professors who are not fulfilling their teaching duties. This is one way in which university president...
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Tax rate change prompts Soros to freeze aid
The Soros Foundation has suspended aid programmes for education, scientific and medical research and cultural activities in Belarus. The decision is a reaction to changes in the tax laws which make...
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Fees hike threatens summer of unrest
The prospect of fee increases in Italy's 50 state universities has sparked new rumblings of student protest for the end of the summer. The Italian parliament passed legislation which eliminates the...
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'Bac' pass row erupts
This year's pass rate in the French school-leaving baccalaureat examination reached a record 75 per cent. But the result has been greeted with some scepticism about standards and even rumours that...
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Leagues expose lecturers' quality quirks
At the end of the academic year in Israel's universities, league tables of the marks given by students to their lecturers are displayed in corridors and common rooms. Apart from their obvious role as...