Sacked lecturers as cheap labour
An agricultural college is making six lecturers compulsorily redundant and offering them jobs back as "practical instructors" on half their previous pay. A total of 12 horticultural lecturers' jobs...
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David Willetts
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Battlefront drawing closer
The loophole which allows Russian graduates to avoid military conscription is closing fast. State Duma deputies (members of Russia's lower house) have overwhelmingly backed a new law extending...
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Yale boots out student who forged his grades
Another case of a student lying to gain admission to an Ivy League College - this time a student who fabricated his scores to get into Yale - is causing further soul-searching in colleges and...
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Science seedcorn must be nurtured
Volume I of the Foresight saga is published and we shall soon see how the Government intends to move forward. A report to be published later this month by the Office of Science and Technology,...
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Forward-looking NVQ candidates
Describing the award of an NVQ at higher levels as being "for no more than current competences" (J. J. Sparkes, THES, April 26) demonstrates a lack of understanding of what candidates actually have...
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V-cs gain right to sack staff
Australian vice chancellors have greater power to sack staff following an Industrial Relations Commission decision. The federal commission accepted proposals by the vice chancellors to simplify...
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Law school fights bar
A tiny law school in Massachusetts is taking on the mighty American Bar Association by suing it for monopolistic practices. The unprecedented David and Goliath struggle is expected to last years and...
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Frances Mechan-Schmidt
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Passenger train is on the wrong track
Roxanne Powell of the LSE is not "standing before the axed Advanced Passenger Train at the National Railway Museum" (THES April 21). It looks rather like part of an old steam train - a metaphor...
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CVCP plan for single quality agency
A single quality assurance agency, jointly owned by institutions and external stakeholders, principally the Higher Education Funding Council for England, has been proposed by the chairman of the...
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AUT backs expansion
More than 200,000 new student places - equivalent to ten to 15 new universities - will have to be created by 2010 if working-class students are to be given an equal chance with middle-class...
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Graduates take lower paid jobs
Most graduate jobs do not carry starting salaries above the repayment threshold for student loans, according to a Career Services Unit survey. CSU figures show that the average salary was Pounds 13,...
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Pay talks
Reduced student numbers are being blamed for an Pounds 896,000 deficit and up to 65 redundancies at Yorkshire Coast College, Scarborough. The Further Education Funding Council said the loss was not...
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TEC chair resigns
Mike Bett is resigning the chairmanship of the TEC National Council after less than a year to avoid a clash of interests with his new regulatory role as first Civil Service commissioner.