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• Adam Powell has been appointed to the new post of head of employability. He was formerly manager of artswork at the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in the creative industries, and...
• Neena Gill, the first female Asian MEP, has agreed to join the Aston Business School advisory board. Ms Gill is currently MEP for the West Midlands.
• Mike West, executive dean of Aston Business School, has been awarded a grant of £470,000 by the Service Delivery and Organisation Programme of the National Institute for Health Research to...
• The Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (iMBE) has won Yorkshire Forward’s Innovator/08 Knowledge Exploitation Award (supported by Research Councils UK) for successful commercial...
David Brown, director of the Lancaster China Management Centre and professor of strategy and information systems, was presented with the North West of England UKTI Greater China Recognition Award...

Another milestone was reached by our university last week with the news that, following the latest round of appointments, there was now one human resources manager available for every member of...
Outsiders can never grasp the eccentricities of academe, says Sally Feldman
Politicians must end their coyness about tuition charges and face facts - they may be unpopular but they are necessary
John Woolhouse was an academic who pioneered links between education and industry long before their current vogue.
Thank you for putting David Allen's remarks ("Talented non-academics overlooked for v-c posts, says registrar", March) directly below an article on staff views of university managers ("Staff give...
You report that academics are less satisfied with the leadership of their managers than workers in any other sector. However, we shouldn't rush to the conclusion that this is the fault of university...
Am I the only person who is reminded of Communist Russia and its five and ten-year plans when I read about the present Government's intention to plan for the next ten to 15 years of higher education?...
You drew helpful attention to the many institutes for advanced study that have sprung up, or are in the process of emerging, on UK campuses ("The perfect brainstorm", 20 March). But in important...
Further to the welcome expression of dismay about plans to cut social sciences at Keele University by my colleagues in Cardiff Business School (Letters, March), it may be worth pointing out that...