Scots back autonomy
The Association of University Teachers has clashed with the Educational Institute of Scotland over a Trades Union Congress call for a Scottish parliament to have control of the universities. David...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. "Fascinating", "compelling", "a tour de force", "slapdash", "jejune" and "sloppy" were joined today by "dazzling" as a description of my new biography of Hugh Gaitskell. The range of...
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Engineering fault in the system
Richard Barry argues for axing the 30 plus engineering faculties which last year accepted students with A-level points well below those of their humanities counterparts It is that time of year again...
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French press lacks baronial archetypes
Huw Richards reports from the Institute of Contemporary History conference on A Century of the Popular Press. Anglo-American journalism provides immense scope for connoisseurs of the Great Man theory...
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Teaching skills get all shook up
The Government has announced the "biggest-ever" shake-up of teacher training, involving the rapid introduction of a national curriculum for universities and colleges. From September next year teacher...
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Seekers after a place in society
Refugees are perhaps the most neglected and most unfairly treated group in higher education debates. It would be easy to condemn the sector but that would be unhelpful in preparing the ground for a...
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Liberal policy plan
The Liberal Democrats this week launched their education policy paper, Investing in Excellence. As reported in The THES on August 30, the paper calls for further and higher education funding councils...
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Trawl for Dearing clues
Universities, colleges and schools across Britain are to be consulted on the reform of qualifications for 16-19-year-olds. They are to be asked for their views on how changes proposed by Sir Ron...
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Winging it
A heart-rending moment at last week's British Association meeting in Birmingham was provided by Gordon McGregor Reid of Chester Zoo, as he showed a picture of the last passenger pigeon, now extinct...
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Biotech booster
Universities, firms and training organisations were this week invited to bid for a slice of a Pounds 5 million initiative aimed at supporting embryonic biotechnology firms. The Department of Trade...
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There's the rub
(Photograph) - Over the summer students are going to cathedral camps around the country to clean up - in the case of Richard Lamey, from Altrincham, Cheshire, by dusting York Minster's lectern.
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Space alliance
Birmingham University's astrophysics and space research group has agreed to collaborate with AEA Technology. They will work together on space technology projects, train students together and do joint...
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Elite and proud of it
Dear Ron, It is now public knowledge that a number of major universities are considering forming a premier league and preparing themselves for the measures that would have to be taken to bring it...
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VAT loss
Universities are likely to suffer from new Value Added Tax rules, says an adviser on the tax. John Kennedy, VAT partner at accountants Deloitte and Touche, predicts that they will lose out under a...
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Percentage changes
Your table (THES, July 26) purported to show that there are no female professors of veterinary science in the United Kingdom. Claire Wathes has been professor of veterinary reproduction at The Royal...