Royal mixer
(Photograph) - Royal mixer: Liz Copeland, lecturer in herbal medicine at the University of Westminster, helps Prince Charles to mix a prescription of dried herbs at the opening this week of the...
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Budget for Mars mission agreed
Mars Express, a European mission to the red planet in 2003, is set for lift-off after a meeting of European science ministers agreed to boost the European Space Agency's science budget over the next...
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Beagle 2
Beagle 2, a lander to accompany the Mars Express mission being coordinated by Colin Pillinger at the Open University, is still on course for inclusion in Mars Express. Professor Pillinger, whose bid...
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Warning over pitfalls of working from home
Alison Utley reports from last week's Association of University Teachers summer council in Scarborough Marking exam scripts from a shady table in the garden while listening to The Archers may sound...
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Threat to academic freedom 'will mean war'
Alison Utley reports from last week's Association of University Teachers summer council in Scarborough University authorities are plotting to launch a new and damaging attack on academic freedom,...
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Institute of Learning and Teaching
* The AUT executive narrowly averted a disaster for the fledgling Institute of Learning and Teaching when it persuaded members to remain behind the initiative. Amid much hostility and antagonism, a...
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'I am doing my job better than ever'
Alison Utley reports from last week's Association of University Teachers summer council in Scarborough Philosopher Nick McAdoo (pictured left) works from home for the Open University and the...
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Debt increase not all bad news
New universities have debts of more than a third of their total income, according to the latest analysis of higher education. But figures in Noble's Higher Education Financial Yearbook for 1999 also...
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Making chaos out of disorder
Principals warn that attempts to 'tidy up' higher education will lead to an identity crisis, writes Tony Tysome Ministers and quality chiefs attempting to impose a new order in higher education have...
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Where scop colleges stand
New government rules ban institutions from using the university college title unless they have taught degree-awarding powers, or have merged or entered into a federal relationship with a university...
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Too many credentials
A senior academic at Robert Gordon University has been accused of faking his qualifications. Robert Bradley, former head of the school of applied sciences and professor of physical chemistry is...
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AUT incompetence
The head of the Association of University Teachers has been lambasted by an employment tribunal as "ignorant, naive and complacent" about race relations, despite being vindicated over a complaint of...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Edinburgh is to award honorary doctorates of science to Paul Nurse, director general and head of the cell cycle laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund; James Jardine, former head...
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Don's Diary
Saturday Set off from Bangor to Bangkok. We are a team from the school of ocean sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, joining a European Union project to study seagrass meadows and mangroves in the...
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The THES Diary
Nice to chi you... Anyone hoping for a future improving the National Health Service must adopt a suitably respectful tone. Those involved in the Commission for Health Improvement have been told to...