Who gets paid most
Vice chancellors and medics may dominate the top end of the pay tables but the highest paid academic in Britain is a faculty member at London Business School, who pulled in between Pounds 150,000 and...
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Showdown over FE jobs
Ninety jobs are to go at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology following the failure of a recovery plan worked out last year. The majority of the redundancies are expected to be compulsory....
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On a clear day you can see to the multiplex
The citizens of Oxford may soon see new bingo halls, bowling alleys and car parks among their dreaming spires. Lucy Hodges asks whether colleges keen to profit from their land are responsible. Oxford...
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Martian visitors killed our dog
Is there life on Mars, albeit in a primitive form, and could it make the journey to Earth? It may already be here, reports Martin Ince. Frequent flyers say that a good landing is one you can walk...
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Ceredigion FE College
Ceredigion FE College in West Wales is to close its Felinfach campus this summer. Felinfach, which houses the college's agricultural department, has been declared unviable after making losses of...
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Don's diary
Friday. Ships sails. Have I got all the Hanukkah candles? What about my prayer book? Is the menorah packed as well? I have been engaged as the rabbi on the QE2 Caribbean Christmas and New Year cruise...
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The art of being black
Claire Alexander goes in search of the complex identity of young black Britain that lies behind the popular stereotypes. In the wake of the recent wave of media infatuation, I have to confess that it...
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Rift and squeeze in 1960s
Harold Wilson's Labour Government was still pretty new in late 1964 and so was the merged Department for Education and Science. Government papers newly released under the 30 year rule by the Public...
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Dundee's fight to become a university
By January 1964, six Scottish towns had made bids to house the country's next university: Stirling, Falkirk, Perth, Inverness, Dumfries and Ayr. But an emergency resolution from Dundee Council urged...
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Honorary degrees
BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY DLitt: David English, chairman, Associated Newspapers. MA: Barbara Chamberlain, former academic secretary of the university. UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE DLitt: Alan Davie,...
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To forgive but not forget
SOUTH AFRICA. F rank Mdlalose," called out a white man in received English pronunciation. A cheer erupted from the almost all-black audience seated amid the Victorian splendour of the Durban City...
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Loans boycott threatens banks
STUDENTS. Last May the National Union of Students called an extraordinary conference to debate student funding. It promised to be a watershed event, marking a radical change in NUS policies. It...
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V-cs take controls of joint audit vehicle
QUALITY. A quality breakthrough finally came in September of this year when vice chancellors won the three-year battle with the funding councils for control of the quality assurance process in...
