Scots protest at pay with strings
Glasgow Caledonian University was one of 13 Scottish universities and colleges hit by strike action this week as unions protested against a pay offer linking a 2.5 per cent rise to changes in...
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Bread and dripping
William Martin (THES, September ) correctly points out the potential for savings through institutions taking full advantage of VAT zero-rating opportunities. He gives sound advice but it is only part...
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Rights of reply
Julian Petley and Martin Barker justify removing our contribution to their book Ill Effects on the effects of the media by accusing us of being "quite unwilling" to go through the normal editorial...
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Technikons take lion's share of funding
South African technikons emerged the biggest winners in education in this year's budget, which increased the total education allocation by just over 10 per cent to R32.2 million (Pounds 5.65million...
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Natfhe threatens strike on contracts
College enrolment week, which starts on Monday, faces disruption in some parts of the country because of strikes by lecturers over contracts. Lecturers' union Natfhe is co-ordinating the action and...
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Gauls upset by Anglo-Saxon Web
Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, eastern France, the European branch of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, has become the first higher education institution in France to be taken to court...
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Cuts put brake on expansion
Israel's minister of education, Amnon Rubinstein, was this week trying to find savings of 151 million shekels (Pounds 33.5 million) in his ministry's spending to meet government expenditure cuts...
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Aberdeen postgrad escapes prison
A former Aberdeen University postgraduate has escaped a potential prison sentence after ending a defamatory campaign against the university. Court of Session judge Lord Kirkwood last year deferred...
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London Facts
What does tertiary education do for London? Not a lot, says one report. In another of our series of regional focuses, THES reporters look for a sense of community within the M25 area. The region has...
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US snubs peace gift
Agboola Gambari, Nigeria's permanent representative at the United Nations in New York, has been thwarted in attempts to improve his country's image in American academic circles. Professor Gambari, a...
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W.H.A.T???
Evidence for those who fear that the world of education is suffering from Compulsive Acronym Syndrome (CAS?) comes with the handlist Acronyms and Initialisms in Education (AIE), produced by the...
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Pay scales lack justice
ALTHOUGH the protracted pay struggle seems to be drawing to a close for another year one significant and longstanding anomaly has still not been resolved. The THES table of pay scales in the old and...
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'Elitism' hinders learners
Entrenched, elitist prejudice and anachronistic teaching methods at Cambridge University are failing its ethnic minorities, state school students and women, the student union has claimed. In its...
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A theatre of arrogance
Jonathan Ree describes how E. P. Thompson's savage attack on Parisian intellectuals was a calculated caricature that misjudged the capacity for irony of his readers. On the other hand," people will...
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A stitch in time
Pull yourselves together, Catherine Cadman tells her colleagues in nursing education, and swallow some home truths before the universities swallow you Incorporating nurse education into higher...