65-year-old Barker takes over at TVU
The task of rescuing the "failing" Thames Valley University has gone to Kenneth Barker. His appointment as TVU's new vice-chancellor was announced this week, two weeks after The THES predicted his...
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Heriot-Watt project to help Borders folk
Heriot-Watt University aims to help regenerate the Scottish Borders through a Pounds 1.1 million telecommunications project. The area has been hit by substantial job losses in local industries. The...
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UCAS under scrutiny at one-off session
The work of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and the payment of student loans will be held up to public scrutiny at a one-off evidence session to be held by the education sub-...
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Failed Bilston's assets go to Wulfrun College
Ministers have formally approved the dissolution of Bilston Community College, in Wolverhampton, following a collapse of management and governance. Bilston will be closed, its property, rights and...
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Eclipse spotters travel to Bulgarian sea coast
While Britain fretted about the high possibility of cloud cover ruining views of Wednesday's solar eclipse, many scientists travelled to the Bulgarian Black Sea coast to get a clear view of the event...
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Cheating students difficult to detect
A senior tutor at Bristol University has admitted that the university is finding it difficult to police hi-tech cheating in student exams. Bristol's senior physics tutor, Jeff Odell, has conceded...
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The future rides on real commitment to science
In the second of our summer series on education at the century's end, Jean-Patrick Connerade discusses the future for young researchers Is Britain well prepared to remain a leading nation in the next...
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Kennedy must focus opposition
Is it possible to ride two horses at once? Charles Kennedy, the new Liberal Democrat leader, seems to think so. His problem is that one horse, the grassroots party, after 11 years of Paddy Ashdown in...
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The CVCP should solve pay dispute
Academics in old universities this week began industrial action to disrupt admissions. Their case (page 14) is good. But unfortunately that does not mean anything will be done. Non-academic unions...
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Time to lay out the facts for PhDs
I was not one of those Simon Blackburn heard crying at the philosophy centre in Oxford ("Looking for a slice of the American pie", THES, July 30), but I could have been - I also failed the BPhil by...
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Time to lay out the facts for PhDs
I was surprised and disappointed with the conclusions Rebecca Stott drew in her piece about the precarious professional situation of PhD candidates ("No jobs for the boysI or girls", THES, July 16)....
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Time to lay out the facts for PhDs
Stories about the lack of quality or limited scope of PhD supervision are depressingly familiar. Perhaps one or two simple measures might resolve many of the problems, which are often based on the...
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Union ructions
I read with interest the article about Southampton University students' decision to cease their affiliation to the National Union of Students ("Row erupts over vote to break from NUS", THES, July 30...
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Union ructions
It was disappointing that the report into the decision by Southampton's student union to disaffiliate from the NUS did not mention that the union held a referendum on the issue as recently as March...
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America's real reds
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones's review of M. J. Heale's McCarthy's Americans: Red Scare Politics in State and Nation, 1935-1965 (THES, June 18), like virtually all books on McCarthy, fails to acknowledge...