Welsh start statement regime
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. Welsh higher education institutions this week became the first to submit...
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Health experts attack Blair's NHS remarks
Health economists are urging the Labour party to come clean on its plans for a revamped NHS, after Tony Blair announced earlier this week that a Labour government would reverse the internal market in...
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Dearing teams up
A team from the Institute of Education, London, will examine more than 1,500 replies to a questionnaire from the Dearing inquiry into higher education. Led by Ronald Barnett, dean of professional...
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Academic animal feed
Should university professors participate in "performance-based" incentive schemes and bonus programmes? The question is widely asked wherever universities are being called on by their governments to...
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Healthy attitude for Lancaster
The concept of healthy body, healthy mind took a step forward last week with the formal launch of a scheme to turn Lancaster University into a healthy and environmentally-pleasing campus. The Health...
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Britons relax with a bedtime vision
Nearly half of Britons regularly hallucinate, according to a study by Robert Priest, emeritus professor in psychiatry at the University of London. In a survey of 5,000 people, Professor Priest found...
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Ashrawi outlines peace agenda
Palestinian academics stayed off the streets while the bloody battles raged between Palestinian police, civilians and Israeli soldiers in West Bank towns last week. Instead, they searched for a...
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Scots plan post-Dearing
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is guarding against planning blight resulting from the Dearing inquiry into higher education by trawling for ideas on how institutions can work together...
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Davies fights for Commons life
Huw Richards reports from the Labour party conference in Blackpool. Nobody would ever call Bryan Davies a lucky politician. For the second time in his career he faces losing his place in the House of...
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Smooth oil for troubled waters
Aberdeen University could help prevent a rerun of the Brent Spar controversy, in which Shell and Greenpeace clashed over the strategy for decommissioning the floating oil installation, with a new...
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Personnel chief wins Pounds 40,000 sex case
A former head of personnel has won a Pounds 40,000 settlement from a church-funded higher education college amid claims of unfair dismissal and sex discrimination. Evelyn Henson negotiated the...
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Worth his salt
Aisling Irwin (THES, September ) dates "the birth of animal rights" with the publication of Paul Singer's Animal Liberation in 1975 and the notion of "rights" as derived from the United States. Henry...
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Private rules for public institutions
Dire is the only word to describe the picture painted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England's analysis of the financial forecasts of English and northern Irish universities. The figures...
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Deal struck on staff contracts
The Robert Gordon University and the Educational Institute of Scotland have reached an 11th hour agreement on academic contracts, avoiding a further legal battle. The union won a Court of Session...