Nasty scratch
Ivy League universities share the Oxbridge tendency to be rude about each other, and an example from the Princeton-educated F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-up (published posthumously in 1945)...
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Temp problems
The layout of an advertisement for lectureships in African politics at Oxford University last week may have stopped a few hearts beating. The ad, which appeared in the press placed the words "...
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Bad managers cause stress
Aggressive and poor management is one of the main causes of high levels of stress and illness among staff in both further and higher education according to Natfhe, the University and College...
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Dead heat
This week's award for timing goes to the University of Essex, whose press release about its involvement in the Alfa Latin American student exchange network (see above) coincided with a story in its...
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Touting Taylors
Is there no limit to this man's talents? asks a reader who spotted a Stage advert for Laurie Taylor: The Ideal Cabaret for your function: Sings Your Favourite Sinatra and Manilow Songs ? Probably not...
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Collision course
A semi-naked man lying on a bed of nails and under three concrete blocks forms the cover photo of the latest Cern Courier, the particle physics journal. The man, who is about to be hit with a...
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Principal's wife gets her job on merit alone
An Edinburgh University inquiry has dismissed allegations that a post was "conjured up" for Sheena Sutherland, wife of the university principal, Stewart Sutherland, as a precondition of his accepting...
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Watchdogs criticise GNVQ standards
As the CBI meets in Birmingham, Simon Targett reports on the latest developments in training. A Government watchdog this week issued a stinging indictment of the progress of the new vocational A...
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NHS funds to be streamlined with `broad strokes'
The streamlining of National Health Service research money into a single funding channel, as recommended in a major report last month, will have to be a "broad brush" exercise because of the...
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Quality must note technical advances
John Sizer, chief executive of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, this week warned that quality assessments must soon begin to take greater account of the use of novel teaching and...
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Islamic group accuses SOAS of `cowardice'
Supporters of an Islamic group barred from promoting its views in the School of Oriental and African Studies responded by accusing the school of "hypocrisy" and "cowardice" this week. "SOAS has...
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Hot metal
Rolls Royce is investing more than Pounds 1 million in a new technology centre at the University of Cambridge. The facility will be based at the department of materials science and metallurgy and...
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Head found
The long-awaited appointment of a chief executive to head the new Teacher Training Agency was announced by the Department for Education this week. The post has been filled by Anthea Millet, director...
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Quality chief condemns drain on resources
A Higher Education Quality Council director has condemned the sector's so-called quality industry as a drain on vital resources which "is itself threatening quality." John Bull, vice chancellor of...