Partnership plans
Leicester University has announced a partnership agreement with Bishop Grosseteste College in Lincoln and Newman College of Higher Education in Birmingham. It hopes the alliance will help develop new...
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Derby v-c to retire
Derby University vice-chancellor Roger Waterhouse is to retire in July 2004. During his 13-year tenure, he has seen the institution develop from a higher education college to a modern university.
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Rise in post-16 success
Success rates among post-16 students improved significantly in 2001-02, figures from the Learning and Skills Council show. The number of students gaining qualifications rose to 65 per cent from 59...
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Fifth at Oxford have jobs
A fifth of Oxford University students work part time in term time even though they have been warned not to by their colleges, a survey has shown. Almost 70 per cent work during university holidays to...
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Joint bid to aid women
The Royal Society is to collaborate with Canada and France to tackle the underrepresentation of women in science and technology. Discussions at an international workshop last week revealed that both...
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£4.3m centre planned
Strathclyde University has won £4.3 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to set up the UK's first doctoral training centre in medical devices. The centre will help make...
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Correction
The University of East London is in the process of seeking validation for its podiatry degree from the relevant professional bodies. A report in The THES (July 25) said that the course would not be...
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Call for talks on visa fee
Protests over the introduction of fees for overseas students' visa extensions grew louder this week as Universities UK demanded that ministers explain the move. Vice-chancellors have warned the Home...
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Bid to move ocean lab faces rough passage
A Natural Environment Research Council plan to ferry the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory across the Mersey is running into choppy water. The Proudman is due to relocate in September from the...
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Universities face industrial action over pay
Universities could face the most damaging campaign of industrial action in their history this autumn after the Association of University Teachers rejected last week's pay offer and lecturers' union...
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Elite 19 may reject cash bonus
Leading vice-chancellors may ignore government plans to pay £9,000 "golden hellos" to attract lecturers into shortage subjects, scuppering a Labour manifesto commitment. The elite Russell Group of 19...
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Leifert walkout is 'premature'
The academic who resigned from the government's science review panel on genetic modification came under fire from fellow members this week. Carlo Leifert, director of the Tesco Centre of Organic...
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QAA: accreditation 'risky'
The right of hundreds of small and specialist colleges across the world to offer British degrees has been called into question by the Quality Assurance Agency. In an interview with The THES , QAA...
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Rules and regulations will just cramp our style
The white paper and the Bologna process threaten the values and dynamics of UK higher education, argues Maurice Kogan Sometimes I wonder whether ministers and some institutional leaders remember, or...
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Don's diary: Give a don a bone
Friday "Can you collect a skeleton from the cellar of a local house next to a recent murder scene," read the email from our city archaeologist. "Police lost interest when the remains were discovered...