Unions flex muscles over pay rise retreat
Australia's main academic union plans to adopt a more aggressive industrial stance towards wage rises and job security. The decision comes as vice chancellors face growing pressure from the...
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Women chart ocean cycle
Yachtswomen racing around the world for nine months will record details of sea sickness and menstrual cycles to help scientists understand motion sickness. Michael Gresty's team at the Medical...
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Small is beautiful for Scots
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. Scotland's compactness has allowed the Scottish Higher Education Funding...
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Benn on Blair
Tony Benn fires another salvo at New Labour in a review of Brian Brivati's biography of Hugh Gaitskell on page 24. He rejects perceptions of Gaitskell as an early Blairite moderniser, presenting him...
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Catch in tax dodge
I read with interest your report of the Profit Related Pay scheme (PRP) at the University of the West of England, whereby an element of salary will be paid as a tax-free "profit" distribution. No...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry argues for axing engineering faculties that accept students with low A-level points. I disagree. The purpose of education is to change minds, and the purpose of engineering is to change...
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Trend to tighter graduate targets
Graduate employers are getting "too choosy", according to the quarterly Graduate Salary and Vacancy Survey. Figures show that employers are targeting students more specifically than ever before. The...
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Holy grain
(Photograph) - Sculptor John Houlston has donated a representation of the solar system carved from a 500-year-old oak to the chapel at King's College London. The new one-tonne lectern, called The...
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Loans row hits poll
Already stumbling badly, Republican candidate Bob Dole's presidential campaign is now on the defensive over the United States' student loan programme. Republican attacks on popular "direct" loans...
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Oiling green palms
A Pounds 7 million proposal to build a marine environmental research centre in Wales has received approval from the Millennium Commission. The centre will be located in Pembrokeshire, near to the...
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Safe as houses
Rooms at Dundee University's new Pounds 3.5 million halls of residence are fitted with safes operated by student bank or credit cards using a "swipe" system.
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry's article is an interesting proposal but worthy of further testing. There are no academic absolutes in the criteria employed to determine admissions to any degree course. The A-level...
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Catch in tax dodge
The suggestion in your report ("Tax dodgers spared axe", THES, September ) that the branch of lecturers' union Natfhe at the University of West England was involved in negotiating preferential "no...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry (Opinion, THES, September 20) argues that we should restrict the supply of engineering graduates by limiting access to degree courses to those who can display a very high level of...