David McWilliams (above), aged 18, says he would not have had enough confidence in his abilities to apply direct to university from school, writes Olga Wojtas. "If I committed myself to a four-year...
Halton College was this week ordered to repay Pounds 7.3 million of misappropriated public funds, more than four months after Whistleblowers exclusively revealed that a multimillion pound financial...
Financial management was so bad at Bilston Community College that a funding council enquiry team has said the college could face debts of between Pounds 3 million and Pounds 10 million. Audit...
MONDAY. "Progress" meeting for the Unit for Space Sciences and Astrophysics at 9am. This week sees the switch-on of one of our experiments on the Cassini spacecraft, currently en route to Saturn....
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, professor of physics at the Open University, who discovered pulsars - stars which send out pulses of radio waves that sweep across the sky in identifiable patterns - has...
One hopes the University of East Anglia is dedicated enough "to the advancement of learning and the increase of knowledge" to look kindly on an article by Peter Womack, senior lecturer in English...
Ray Dowd, principal and chief executive of Hopwood Hall College, Rochale has been appointed principal and chief executive of Wirral Metropolitan College. He will succeed Jenny Shackleton, who is...
The review of Joyce Tyldesley's Nefertiti (THES, April 9) was accompanied by a picture of Queen Nefertari, wife of Ramesses II (her name even appears in the cartouche) instead of Nefertiti, wife of...
Scientists who collaborate with industry can find themselves gagged, says David Weatherall Mounting pressures on scientists by government and funding bodies to develop links with industry and to...
...would happily eat a BSE hamburger The first time I saw a BSE cow in 1989, I was struck by how similar its behaviour was to that of people with multiple sclerosis. MS sufferers can use their hands...
Professors ofEnglish literature must become devotees of cultural studies, argues Anthony Eastope Cultural studies has not had a good press. Literary journalists in particular tend to be antagonistic...
Watch out - a style guru is about. Olga Wojtas listens to what dramas a social anthropologist working in Edinburgh can detect around the kitchen sink The citizens of Edinburgh should be very afraid....
WHAT. Maxine Alterio talks to Jennifer Currie about a New Zealand project that got lecturers to talk about their experiences in a formal setting. WHY. Introducing storytelling sessions on a one-to-...
Our guest editorfor this edition of Teaching is Sally Brown, directorof membershipservices at the new Institute for Learning and Teaching as well as a visiting professor at Robert Gordon University....
Heather, a lecturer from New Zealand describes how using a formalised storytelling process enabled her to let go of her expectations. "I was working with another lecturer on a student project. They...