Safety is flouted in chemistry culture
A culture of bravado in some university chemistry laboratories is leading to worrying breaches of health and safety procedures. An apparent lack of concern among staff in a number of departments has...
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Scots fight new contracts
Almost 1,500 lecturers in Scotland's new-university sector went on strike this week as part of their campaign to force institutions to abandon new contracts said by management to offer "efficiency,...
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Design and dance benefit from facilities fund
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has earmarked Pounds 74 million for the improvement of poor university estates. The money will be shared between 31 projects over three years,...
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Pisa
Italy's biographical dictionary of prominent Italians includes a first-time entry for Giovanni Gentile. The fascist politician and philosopher is a former education minister who taught at the...
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Flipping heck - a pancake race at Wolverhampton
(Photograph) - Students at the University of Wolverhampton held a pancake race this we ek to raise money for the Mozambique flood victims. Photograph by MIKE SEWELL
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Correction
* In an article about work environments in The THES, March 3, Sheffield Hallam University vice-chancellor Diana Green was given the wrong name. We are sorry.
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Student learning accounts imminent
Universities could be funded through students' individual learning accounts as early as the next Parliament, a senior government adviser has said. ILAs for university students could guarantee success...
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Improving quality is key to the government's vision
Improving quality is key to the government's vision of a dual-track academic-vocational post-compulsory education system, Baroness Blackstone said this week, writes Alan Thomson. Further and higher...
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Unqualified success
The enrolment of under-qualified students to Derby University's degree courses in Israel was systematic and widespread, new evidence reveals. The THES reported in June last year that, in order to...
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Head smashing caught on film
A technician working in an Oxford University laboratory has been secretly filmed smashing a mouse's head against a laboratory bench. The video shows the technician pick up the mouse by its tail and...
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Scots seek views on research cash
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council wants to know how its mainstream research funding method could be improved to help offer greater job security to more contract research staff. Shefc is...
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Peers differ over how skill bill will shift power
Opposition peers say the new learning and skills bill will aid a fundamental shift in political power in England. But while Conservatives believe it is paving the way for devolved regional government...
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ESRC shifts funds to research
Social science students wanting to take a stand-alone masters course will no longer receive support from the Economic and Social Research Council, it was announced this week. The ESRC board has...
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University autonomy welcomed by postgrad committee
The National Postgraduate Committee has welcomed proposals to give individual university departments responsibility for setting the number of postgraduate places and the stipend students receive,...
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Glasgow finds cash for cream
Glasgow University has created a Pounds 1.5 million bonanza for postgraduates by pooling an array of benefactions and endowments. The university will mark its 550th anniversary in 2001 by launching...