DEE cuts top staff by a third
A senior management shake-up in the new Department for Education and Employment will involve cutting the number of top civil servant posts by a third, the Government announced this week. A new...
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Wave of enthusiasm
Suzanne Docherty, a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, has revealed in the student edition of the British Medical Journal that preclinical lectures can be more exciting than...
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Horse player
Does departing HEFCE chief Graeme Davies have an unrevealed enthusiasm for four-legged friends? A few weeks before his arrival as vice chancellor of the University of Glasgow, the place is raising...
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Don't panic
(Photograph) - Linda Cowan, senior information and recruitment officer at the University of Abertay Dundee, shows off the university's new automated inquiry system on the World Wide Web. Prospective...
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Economic dry
Alumni to be proud of no 10: Trevor Newton, the Yorkshire Water chief whose personal hygiene became the subject of disbelieving national scrutiny last week, may or may not have learned his unique...
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Graduate jobs boost
Big recruiters are anticipating better times ahead for ambitious graduate job- seekers, according to a study by Sussex University-based Institute of Employment Studies. Companies are expecting a busy...
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Nothing new in schools' scheme
New school-centred teacher training schemes are too much like those run by higher education institutions, according to a report published this week. In-house courses managed by schools consortia have...
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Dons take lessons in lecturing
As term starts a whole crop of new academics is facing its first students, The THES asks what support and training they get. Lecturers starting their first jobs this autumn face an unprecedented...
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Modular motivation found
Students on modular A level courses are better motivated, harder working, and more likely to gain high grades than their peers taking traditional A levels, according to a report released last week. A...
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AUT in contract fight
Lecturers' leaders in the old universities are campaigning to recruit and improve the position of contract research staff. The Association of University Techers says that despite many union...
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Cell alternative to animal testing
Reducing the numbers of animals used in scientific experiments is the aim of cellular research under way at Aberystwyth University's Institute of Biological Sciences. The institute has devised a...
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King Coal is an unhealthy soul
The high number of ex-miners registering as permanently sick and taking early retirement helps to explain why, contrary to expectations, the United Kingdom's coalfields have fewer people on the dole...
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Whitehall ex-chief welcomes probe
The largest-ever academic study of the workings of British government has been welcomed by a former head of the civil service. Lord Bancroft, head of the home civil service from 1978 to 1981 told the...