Contract staff win appeal on status
The Association of University Teachers is claiming an Employment Appeal Tribunal decision as an important victory in its campaign to improve the status of thousands of contract staff. Glasgow...
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Folk fight to fill the house
Earlier this year a party planned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Bristol Folk House looked like turning into a wake. But thanks to a number of donations, the party is still on. In October...
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Cash for Irish sensors
The International Fund for Ireland is to back a major project linking Ulster's two universities and two in the Irish Republic. The Biomedical and Environmental Sensor Technology (BEST) Centre is...
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Welsh farmers gain an institute
The Welsh Institute of Rural Studies was established at Aberystwyth last week when the university's department of agriculture merged with the Welsh Agricultural College. Michael Haines, institute...
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Glaxo turns to Cambridge in hunt for drugs
"It all came about as a result of Roger and me talking over a quiet gin and tonic one evening, chatting about the world, the universe, and chemistry." That is how Steven Ley, British Petroleum...
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Awards for students plummet
More than Pounds 35 million has been cut from student discretionary awards by county councils in England and Wales in just two years. The reduction, revealed in a THES survey, means nearly a third...
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Plan to scrap national pay deals
University unions have reacted angrily to proposals to scrap annual pay increments and establish a single pay structure for all staff, from porters to professors. The suggestions form part of...
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Carnage blamed on old buildings
European earthquake experts sent to Kobe, Japan, to carry out a detailed study of how, why and which buildings failed during January's earthquake say research on strengthening old buildings should be...
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Welsh adopt credit funding
Higher education funding in Wales is to be linked to a new credit framework for courses. The Higher Education Credit Initiative, launched by the Welsh HE CATS Forum, involves all Welsh universities...
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Made to measure
Given that second-hand buildings generally adapt best to purposes close to those for which they were originally intended, one can only applaud the initiative of the University of Cork, currently...
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Career tonic
Lord Butterfield, distinguished medic, member of the House of Lords science and technology committee and former vice chancellor of Nottingham and Cambridge universities, suggested a simple solution...
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Costing the earth
While higher education's in-ternationalist instincts meant there was a certain regret at Norway's decision last year to reject European Union membership, this may not have been shared at Newcastle...
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Thanks a bunch
Never let it be said that Sir William Stubbs, chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council, lacks compassion. An exasperated member of North Warwickshire College complained that fears...
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Hard fax
Colleges Employers Forum chief Roger Ward likes to be known as a grand talker. When the man who spent the eve of his wedding in constant negotiation with Natfhe officials decided to treat his patient...
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Digital diet
Scottish universities and colleges are being connected by a series of information superhighway links, or Metropolitan Area Networks, known rather ungrammatically as MANs. One of these is in Fife and...