AUT attack on contract abuse
Lecturers this week accused universities of breaking national agreements on the employment of contract staff. The Association of University Teachers' attack is based on a survey of contract...
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Ballot on Scots pay deal
The future of national bargaining for Scotland's further education lecturers is in the balance this week, with staff being balloted on a new deal allowing some conditions to be negotiated locally....
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Peaceline campus gets Pounds 15m
The European Union is poised to announce a Pounds 15 million injection for the University of Ulster's proposed "peaceline" campus in West Belfast. Full details of the package agreed by European...
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CVCP encourages laboratory takeovers
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals this week called on Government departments and research councils to throw open their doors to universities interested in taking on public sector...
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Young bloods
The student edition of the British Medical Journal includes a helpful article by Alun Evans, a final-year medical student in London, and Simon Donovan, surgical officer in Hereford, on how medical...
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Slippery slope
Just as well that Buddhists do not go in for fatwas, or the public relations staff at La Sainte Union College and theology lecturer Danny Sullivan would be making hurried preparations for Rushdie-...
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Show down
Soapy science could have made its television debut, rivalling the familiar characters in the Rovers Return and the Queen Vic, if Salford's vice chancellor had his way. Tom Husband recently revealed...
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Pay-offs a go-go
Vice chancellors agog at the goings-on at Huddersfield may like to know that, if their aim in life is a good pay-off, they went into the wrong academically-related activity. The American magazine...
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Odds on Gamble
One has to feel a certain sympathy for Andrew Gamble, recently appointed pro vice chancellor for academic planning at Sheffield University. It seems the poor fellow is doomed to become a vice...
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Back to the future
Competing for the Future, co-authored by London Business School professor Gary Hamel, is already showing signs of living up to its title. Launched yesterday at a reception at LBS, it had already...
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Green labels
Proposals for greening the campus via increased recycling are obviously taken seriously at the strife-torn University of Huddersfield. The photograph of new vice chancellor Sir William Taylor that...
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Genetic screen finds hidden disease
A new definition of health should be adopted by medical experts if they are to deal successfully with the ethics of genetic screening, a Manchester conference was told last week. If health is defined...
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Human genetic research inquiry
Human genetic research will be the subject of the next major inquiry of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. The inquiry will be into the ethical, regulatory and economic...
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`Ancients' demand summer subsidy
Student leaders in the country's oldest universities are launching an "Ancients Campaign" to demand the restoration of benefits to students over the summer vacation. Student unions at Aberdeen,...
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Hot off the press
Almost as rapidly into the public consciousness was Warwick University professor of continuing education Chris Duke's article on part-time degrees in The THES of August 9 this summer. Professor Duke...