Swathe of lecturer redundancies hits Wales
Two Welsh colleges are to make the biggest set of compulsory redundancies in British higher education this year. Up to 20 lecturers and the same number of technical and support staff could lose their...
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Party time
Student numbers in Scottish higher education institutions rose by around 1 per cent in the current session, according to provisional figures from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. There...
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Natfhe urges pay review
Falling salary levels for teachers in further education colleges could prompt an exodus of qualified lecturers according to lecturers union Natfhe which published a pay survey this week, writes...
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Peace studies: PLO leader Yasser Arafat
(Photograph) - Peace studies: PLO leader Yasser Arafat addressed the Oxford Union this week, attracting the biggest audience of the year so far. He reserved judgement on Binyamin Netanyahu, who won...
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Household accounts circa 1300
Family values are to be explored within a late medieval context in a project bringing together scholars of English with historians and archaeologists. The interdisciplinary research team is based at...
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Prison sentence for flag burning
A Belarusian pro-democracy activist, Andrey Romasheuski, deputy chairman of the Beer-Lovers' party, has received a two-year suspended prison sentence in connection with a student demonstration in...
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Quality with a very modern irony
Jennie Bristow's piece on the effects of quantity on quality in universities (THES, April 5) contained a singular irony. The course she cited as an example of the "access-driven" restructured,...
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Dying for a fag? Yes, says critic
Cigarette advertisers are capitalising on images of entrapment and oblivion, a Scottish academic claims. Alastair McIntosh of Edinburgh University's Centre for Human Ecology argues +that the health...
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Irish degree council rapped on spending
Ireland's degree-awarding body could cut its annual budget by almost a half and still provide colleges with a better service, according to a team of independent consultants which investigated its...
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Expertise shortfall
Organisations should improve their expertise in staff planning to fit in with the current climate of "downsizing" and decentralisation, according to a report released this week by the Institute for...
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Coalition keeps cut in subsidy
NEW ZEALAND's new coalition government offers little prospect of immediate funding relief for higher education despite the promise of an extra NZ$637 million (Pounds 1 million) over the next three...
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RAE pulled puppeteer's strings
The deadlines and practical requirements of the RAE had a direct impact on the work of Penny Francis, the school's puppetry tutor. She had to act fast to pull together A History of European Puppetry...
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Italy faces discrimination rap
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to take new action against Italy over alleged job discrimination against foreign language lecturers. The commission said it had received representations from lecturers and...
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Fine figures
(Photograph) - Emma Rogers, a third-year on the University of Wolverhampton's BA in ceramics and glass, has won one of the 100 places at the "Ceramic Contemporaries" exhibition at the Victoria and...
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Knives out over surgery appointee
John Hunter once said a surgeon was no more than a savage with a knife. The father of modern surgery was referring to the barber-surgeons of his day who hacked off limbs at the first sign of disease...