Dyslexic solicitor sues over failed exams
A DYSLEXIC trainee solicitor is suing the College of Law in Chester and the Law Society for failing to support his disability. Thomas Hughes, 35, chairman of the Group for Solicitors with...
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Natfhe prepares for general secretary ballot
LECTURERS' union Natfhe is a step closer to choosing a new general secretary after issuing ballot papers to its 66,000 members on Monday. The five candidates are Vicky Seddon, Paul Mackney, Andrea...
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QC to hear Brand's appeal
SCOTTISH QC T. Gordon Coutts has been appointed to hear an appeal against dismissal by Edinburgh University psychology lecturer Chris Brand, who was fired in August after a university tribunal found...
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Pharmacy school granted Pounds 1.1 million
THE SCHOOL of pharmacy at Queen's University, Belfast is to set up a new research group after receiving a Pounds 1.1 million grant, one of the largest ever made to academic pharmacists. The grant is...
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Wales gets cash boost
WIDESPREAD relief has greeted the announcement of an extra Pounds 10 million for Welsh higher education next year, even though the precise distribution of the new cash is still unclear. Peter Hain,...
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Deposits plan for next RAE
A RADICAL paring of the number of institutions and departments involved in research was signalled this week. Sir Robert May, the Government's chief scientific adviser, called for research and...
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Computers rule, OK
COMPUTERS could replace peer review in the research assessment exercise without changing the results, according to a study by Southampton Business School. Millions of pounds and hours of time spent...
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Vets face axings
ACADEMIC posts are to be axed at London's Royal Veterinary College, threatening research into livestock diseases such as BSE. The college said that 13 staff - seven academic and related staff and six...
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Close season
Ray Baker, chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council, told a meeting of eminent science policy-makers this week that the success rate for grant applications to the...
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No puppet on a string
No reassurance from the Department for Education and Employment for those worried about the government's passion for spin doctoring. A press conference was held in London this week to announce an...
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Just like magic
Fortunately, Blunkett will always have his natural sense of humour to sweeten any bitter little political pills he may prescribe. At the Association of Colleges conference in Harrogate he announced a...
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Babel talk
Glasgow University's latest staff newsletter tells of the heroism of the estates and buildings division, each year replaces 8,000 lightbulbs, deals with almost 1,000 burst pipes, 600 blocked drains...
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Rabbi-rousers
Sir Isaiah Berlin, who died last week aged 88, was the epitome of those open-minded, cosmopolitan intellectuals from central Europe who made British academic life, both in the humanities and the...
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Blood brothers
Glasgow Caledonian University has been suffering more than most in recent months, with its principal, Stan Mason, fired for gross misconduct amid an ongoing funding council inquiry, and allegations...
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Smoked out
Alumni to be proud of Nos 146 and 147 have the power, not apparently granted to anyone in the world of higher education, of persuading the government to change its policy. Bernie Ecclestone, the...