Don's Diary
Wednesday. I spend most of the morning tidying up loose ends on a paper, checking references, adjusting graphs and tables and finally printing out copies for submission to the journal. As my last...
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Too much research, not enough teaching?
Do academics like Anthony Giddens neglect their students? Brian Brivati refutes the charge. The recent article and exchange of letters in The Guardian about whether or not Anthony Giddens, professor...
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Oxbridge windfall
A large amount of the cash awarded to humanities postgraduates still goes to the "Golden Triangle" of Oxford, Cambridge and London, British Academy figures reveal. But the University of Sussex pipped...
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British degree 'a real bargain'
British degrees are cheaper than those offered by Australian and American Ivy League universities, according to research by London University's Institute of Education, writes Simon Targett. Foreign...
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Streets ahead: The New College Durham summer youth production of 42nd Street
(Photograph) - Streets ahead: The New College Durham summer youth production of 42nd Street has sold out. It has been choreographed by Joanne Banks, a former performing arts student at the college,...
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Quality call for research
Cambridge and London universities are the main contributors to the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise panels announced this week. The four national funding councils released the names of 542 members...
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Student wins review
A law student who took her university to the High Court in a year-long battle against allegations of plagiarism has won a reassessment of her third-class degree. The offer came after Christine...
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Birkbeck ballots on job title change
Hourly paid part-time lecturers at Birkbeck College's centre for extramural studies are to be balloted for industrial action following changes in their job description and non-recognition of their...
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Marionettiste, writer and director Rani Singh
(Photograph) - Pleased as Punch: marionettiste, writer and director Rani Singh pulled some strings at a puppetry symposium organised with Thames Valley University earlier this month. The aim of the...
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ACM accepts 2.7%
The Association for College Management has accepted a 2.7 per cent rise for members along with extra holiday and the setting up of working parties with the Colleges Employers Forum on performance-...
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Tameside revived
A Pounds 5.5 million spending plan will change the face of education at Tameside College of Technology, which is embarking on a rolling programme of regeneration including a Pounds 1.5 million...
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Research panel chairs announced
Chairs of the research assessment exercise panels will be as follows: Clinical laboratory sciences: Prof I. V. Allen (Queen's Belfast) Community-based clinical subjects: Prof M. Marmot (University...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated at 3pm on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is...
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IP rules blueprint
A new Charity Commission consultation paper on charities and research supports written agreements between charities, researchers and their institutions on their responsibilities for supervision and...
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Manchester masters of salary universe
The average salary earned by last year's graduates of the MBA programme at Manchester Business School was 18 per cent up on the previous year, way ahead even of the much-criticised pay rises for...