Overwork fraying nerves at the OU
OPEN University staff are suffering stress and ill-health as a result of overwork, the university's own internal audit has discovered, writes Phil Baty. The report, Health, Stress and Well-Being,...
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Oxbridge stays 'special'
OXBRIDGE should be able to maintain its "special character" under any future funding arrangements, the Higher Education Funding Council for England stressed this week. But colleges remain no wiser...
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Leaked report shows fear and chaos in the Thames Valley University
A LEAKED internal report on Thames Valley University paints a warts-and-all picture of an institution beset by staff/management antipathy, organisational chaos and fears over educational standards....
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Scots welcome conduct code
ALMOST two thirds of Scottish further education college boards of management have adopted a code of conduct as recommended by the Nolan committee, writes Olga Wojtas. This was revealed in an...
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Lecturer turns to European Court of Human Rights in university fight
Lecturer Gill Evans is set to turn to the European Court of Human Rights in her fight against Cambridge University. Last week, Dr Evans, who remains a lecturer after 18 years at Cambridge, took the...
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Anti-sleaze policy too slow to arrive
The fourth Nolan report is published today, with institutions being criticised for complacency Universities and colleges have been too slow to adopt "anti-sleaze" recommendations from the Nolan...
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Fraud inquiry leaves training hanging in the balance
Colleges in the Midlands fear losing millions of pounds worth of training contracts as the future of their local training and enterprise council hangs in the balance. Initiating a Pounds 1 million...
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Bar flies
Mary McAleese, newly elected to the Irish presidency, has arrived. One moment, pro vice chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, the next, gracing publicity material from Strathclyde University's...
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Julian in the crown
It's a topsy-turvy, seesaw world in modern-day politics. Southampton students demonstrating against tuition fees hit a low moment when social security minister John Denham, one of the few Labour MPs...
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Highland fling
Scottish universities panicking over a potential drop in student numbers as entrants from elsewhere in the United Kingdom are deterred by the prospect of paying an extra Pounds 1,000 in tuition fees...
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Clone 1, Knit 1, Purl 1
Being one of most notable breakthroughs of 20th-century science does not mean you avoid getting fleeced. For the the first fleece of Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, is to be woven into wool...
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Just tax the men
The debate also produced a nice line in modest proposals. Labour's Lynne Jones, in a typically thoughtful and constructively dissident contribution, noted that the arguments that graduates should pay...
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Efficient gains
And whatever scheme finally emerges from the government's deliberations on fees, just hope that the maths of the people running it are better than those of the government whips. The tuition fees...
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High-flying spy
Alumnus to be proud of No 145 represents one of the most distinguished traditions of Cambridge University: spying. Not that there is any suggestion that Richard Tomlinson, charged this week under the...
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Get a life. Women told to work apart
Women should be encouraged to work with other women and be dissuaded from setting up businesses with their spouses, according to research released this week. Elizabeth Chell, professor of management...