Envy queue
Ken Goddard of the pro-acronym lobby, has produced a guide for the Labour party for selecting a name for its proposed qualification for 14-19 year-olds (Antithesis, April 7): it must be a...
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Low rank research under threat
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has sent out a clear signal that research funds for low-rated departments are under threat, and that institutions should give up on areas where they are...
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Mitch Smith
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NUS shows funding preferences
Post-16 education funding is the subject of new reports. David Charter outlines the NUS's assessment of student funding options. Returning student support to 1979 levels would cost at least Pounds 8....
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Teachers sound recruitment alarm
Post-16 education funding is the subject of new reports. Patricia Santinelli reports on the AUT's case for more pay. Higher education might be hit by a staff recruitment crisis because of the "...
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British family life link to drink
The absence of loving family relationships may be driving English teenagers to drink. A comparative study of family life and the drinking behaviour of 11 to 16-year-olds in three European countries...
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Second best degree risk
Universities that have rushed to form partnerships or franchise agreements with other institutions are in danger of awarding "second best" degrees, says the Higher Education Quality Council. Roger...
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Hull loses four top managers
Four senior administrators are to leave the University of Hull within the next few months, writes Claire Sanders. The resignations of Kevin O'Hara, finance director, Anthony McClaran, academic...
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Schools await SuperJANET offer
Anyone who can see a profitable way of connecting rural schools to the information superhighway should tell the Government by July 7. On Monday Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education,...
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Campus boost to local wealth proven
The nine universities in Yorkshire and Humberside are among the region's biggest employers, creating 24,000 jobs and spending Pounds 417 million on wages, according to a new survey by locally-based...
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Weight watchers
Trade unions in the old universities launched a campaign this week to overturn a freeze on the 1993 London weighting allowance imposed by vice chancellors. The unions say that backdating the payments...
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Acas talks
Lecturers' union Natfhe will today debate joining talks at Acas aimed at solving the long-running further education contracts dispute. The move follows fresh proposals from Colleges Employers Forum...
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Scots get go-ahead to hoard surpluses
Scottish university finance directors have welcomed a Government green light for building up institutional surpluses. Institutions have been wary of building up surpluses in case their apparent...
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THES Internet
The THES Internet Service, which includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper as well as all our job advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper, is available...
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Eek!
The tabloids will doubtless be excited to hear that the 50th birthday of Lord Plant, political theorist, Labour peer and chair of the party commission on electoral reform, was marked by the delivery...