Audit alert
The National Audit Office confirmed on Wednesday that it is monitoring an investigation launched by the Department for Education and Employment's European Social Fund Unit into what the DfEE...
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Not one of them
Historian Jonathan Clark exudes an air of patrician gentility, but the feeling she arouses in his peers are not always so exquisite. Simon Targett talks to a controversial conservative. Jonathan...
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Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. Anna Tobin's account deserves better than the reply by Alan Macdonald (THES, August 2)....
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Name names, v-cs ordered
Nigerian vice chancellors are under orders to name all staff involved in the five-month-old university strike, according to the academics' union. The union has discovered a secret memo from Munzali...
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Imitators follow Imperial lead
Masters degrees in science communication are springing up across the country as science faculties encourage students to develop their communication skills. The grandaddy of them all is Imperial...
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Islamic extremist threat to gays
Fundamentalist Islamic groups pose the most serious threat to the safety of gay and lesbian staff and students on university and college campuses in Britain, a report says. Fighting Extremist...
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American graffiti rules
The United States' political and military presence in Asia and the Pacific assumed massive proportions after the second world war. General Douglas MacArthur ruled Japan like a viceroy until he...
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All-Russian foundation cuts red tape
Russia's first home-grown training foundation, designed to encourage the creation of a quality market-place for business, management and public finance education, has set up stall in Moscow and...
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Date fixed for all-out strikes
Academics, technicians and support staff look ready to approve all-out strike action across the old and new university sectors this autumn, according to initial union soundings. And early November is...
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Newcastle bairn
Highly expensive centre forward Alan Shearer is not the only new arrival to hit Newcastle in the last couple of weeks. Just as welcome and equally surprising to his parents, if rather less costly, is...
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Green fingers
Adrian James, a scientist at University College London, is confident that his new device (a fast omni-directional non-scanning energy mass analyser) will be safe with aircraft baggage handlers when...
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Level heads and playing fields
Dear Ron... In the third of our open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, Tony Wood, (left) vice chancellor of the University of Luton, takes pride in his university's...
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Small molecules, big breakthrough
Edinburgh University has joined forces with a clutch of pharmaceutical firms to carry out research that could lead to a better understanding of how small molecules interact with cellular proteins....
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Sudden drop in Bar pass rate prompts inquiry
An inquiry has been launched by the Council of Legal Education into the first significant drop in the pass rate of Bar School students. The CLE announced this week that the proportion of students...