Study blasts bastions of bigotry
Gay and bisexual university lecturers are suffering intolerance and discrimination from colleagues up to the highest levels, a study revealed this week. Alan Skelton of Sheffield University's higher...
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York angers union with military invite
York University has angered its student union by allowing the campus air squadron to recruit during freshers week. In a motion passed last year, the union stated: "Allowing the armed forces on to...
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Colleges welcome cash windfall
All but 4 per cent of colleges have reaped the rewards of one of the government's most generous pay-outs, the Further Education Funding Council for England confirmed this week. But colleges have been...
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Demos predicts rivalry over who teaches
A restructuring of school and university education is proposed this week by the think-tank Demos. In The Creative Age, co-author Kimberley Seltzer says the emphasis on qualifications must be reduced...
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Food poisoning expert calls for lab reprieve
MSPs have called for a reprieve of national references laboratories, which study E. coli and the food poisoning bacterium, Campylobacter, that are threatened by the removal of the Scottish Executive'...
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Pounds 8,000 hello needed to lure trainee teachers
Golden hellos of Pounds 5,000 will be offered to high-flying graduates who join the teaching profession, education secretary David Blunkett has confirmed. But the Liberal Democrats said this week...
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Last-ditch attempt to save Hinxton Hall plan
Officials from the Wellcome Trust and South Cambridgeshire district council met last Tuesday to discuss the Hinxton Hall genome campus planning dispute. The meeting was a final bid to save the Pounds...
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Chatham House in the pink over budget
Chatham House, Britain's oldest think-tank, has emerged with an operating surplus after years of financial problems. The news was announced this week by Lord Marshall (below), the new chairman, who...
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Officials moot open policy on gene
British and American officials are considering issuing a joint statement in support of the public dissemination of data from the Human Genome Project. Civil servants at the Office of Science and...
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Students who skip save
More than one in eight full-time students at Scottish universities will enter directly into the second year because of good sixth-form results, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Unfair blow
I fully support the notion of whisleblowing as an honourable course of action in the face of corporate belligerence, administrative malpractice and where the public is misled, but it is disquieting...
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One hen, many pigs
Scotland has just one Catholic v-c ("Spot the Catholic", THES, September 10). Is this because the country is dominated by Protestant bigots? Who knows? I do know that Scotland has only one woman...
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Science frictions
Harry Kroto's strong argument ("Show me the science", THES, September 17) is that media presentation of science as entertainment is undermining general knowledge and understanding of science. Yet...
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Scales rethink urged by CVCP
The QAA is running into more trouble. Tony Tysome and Phil Baty report Vice-chancellors are to lobby ministers for changes to controversial plans for a new quality assessment regime. The Committee of...
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Baroness Blackstone launches Higher Education Innovations Fund
Baroness Blackstone last week launched the Pounds 12 million Higher Education Innovations Fund, designed to bring new ideas to tackle issues such as equal opportunities.