Dream come true
Allan Stewart, pickaxe-wielding Conservative MP for Eastwood, has just published his autobiography, The Long March of the Market Men. He reveals that he was able to attend St Andrews University with...
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Nolan shines complaint torch
University and college staff and students would have new channels for complaints under recommendations expected to be made this week by Lord Nolan's Committee on Standards in Public Life. Further and...
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Italian jobs favour foreign professors
The article by Dr Davies on Italian universities (THES, April 26) raises some well-taken points, which are being widely discussed in Italy. However it contains a very serious imprecision, which I...
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Union checked
Universities and colleges are to spell out how they have implemented student union reforms. Eric Forth, higher education minister, is checking that the principles of "choice, fairness, democracy,...
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Asylum quirk
The Government has promised to review its Asylum and Immigration Bill after vice chancellors raised fears that overseas students and universities would fall foul of legislation barring foreign...
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Happy returns: For the first time in centuries sheep graze on the green outside Durham cathedral
(Photograph) - Happy returns: For the first time in centuries sheep graze on the green outside Durham cathedral. Above, Paul Stokes and Louise Gidney, of Durham University's archaeology department,...
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Islands in advert row
Nottingham Trent University is to investigate the marketing and publicity strategy of Southampton Institute, whose courses it validates, after receiving complaints from the Channel Islands education...
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Exit staged
(Photograph) - Exit staged: Why did O. J. Simpson try to run away from the police after his former wife was found murdered? "I just wanted the pain to stop," he explained to a packed debating chamber...
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A-carrying on considerable
Six years after its discovery, the original manuscript of Huckleberry Finn is about to appear in Britain. But does the much-hyped book tell scholars anything new about Mark Twain and his attitudes to...
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Creative ideas on how to budget
Working under increasingly severe pressure, staff and students ensured at least until this session that the great majority of universities remained in financial surplus. Now, however, relative...
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Market forces set an ugly agenda
On Monday April 29, nearly two years of national negotiations between the employers of adult education teachers - local authorities - and the university and college lecturers union, Natfhe, came to a...
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Free speech policy crumbles
Reading of the various attacks on the book The g Factor (THES, May 3) and its withdrawal by the publishers, it does occur to us that there is little point in having a policy to protect academic...
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No aspersions on Henshaw
In the article on death in the air (THES, March 29), I am quoted as having stated that the National Radiological Protection Board saw Denis Henshaw's paper as a way of setting up his case for more...
