Don's Diary
Monday. Arrive in Cape Town for a five-day return visit to five South African universities. In January a number of South African universities came to see us as a good example of a multicultural...
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Vantastic voyage home
(Photograph) - The pop music superstar who advised "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" is to teach after all. Singer-song writer Van Morrison is to turn his talents to lecturing in his home territory of...
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Building bricks
Further education colleges are asking the Chancellor to invest Pounds 40 million a year in new and refurbished buildings to cope with growing student numbers. The Association for Colleges' public...
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Union aims for 3.3 per cent rise
Natfhe is claiming a salary rise of at least 3.3 per cent for its members in higher education, along with commitment to a common pay review with old universities. The union's annual pay claim also...
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Lecturers told to dampen ardour
Love-struck lecturers are to be deterred by union officials from having sex with their students - at least until they graduate. Campus love affairs were condemned by Natfhe's annual conference in...
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Akker joins staff walk-out
Natfhe general secretary John Akker joined a walk-out of staff after the futher education sector conference decided to hold a national ballot on striking over pay. Staff complained that an activist...
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Watchmaking industry
(Photograph) - Time warp: the clock is turning back in the watchmaking industry which is trying to cope with a resurgence in demand for traditional watches despite the advances made by quartz...
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Universities will cater for Renaissance Man
The university of tomorrow will not look unlike the great colleges of the Renaissance when there was a single community of international scholars linked by a common language, according to Sir Ron...
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Fellows get cash to collaborate
John Laver, chairman of the British Academy's humanities research board, last autumn wrote an article in The THES deploring the "funding starvation" which militated against collaborative research in...
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Ministry merger gets cool welcome
The heads of Scotland's higher education institutions have given a guarded welcome to the proposed merger of the Scottish Office education and industry departments. The Committee of Scottish Higher...
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Chemists dispense advice with pills
Chemists in south-east London are inviting patients to bring in their medicines for a health check as part of a King's College London research project. Seventeen dispensing chemists have joined the...
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Minorities in US still lag behind
The 1954 Brown ruling outlawed discrimination in education in the United States but Lucy Hodges reports that minorities are finding there are still limits to 'equality' in the Land of the Free. Black...
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Affirmative action under pressure
American colleges and universities are unclear about their authority to give black-only scholarships following the Supreme Court's decision last week not to review a case involving the University of...
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Time to stop selling ourselves cheap
One does not have to be a Marxist to appreciate that one of the main marks of social valuation is money. For too long British academics have allowed themselves to be undervalued by undercharging for...
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Realising the dream
Human nature being what it is, we may live in a new world but we react in ways shaped by an old one. New visions may inspire but getting there is hard. So found Harold Wilson 30 years ago as his...