Survival tactics
Geoffrey Talbot examines the pros and cons of opting out of occupational pension schemes. When your vice chancellor chooses to opt out into a personal pension, start worrying. Presently, managers and...
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Ranks swell in army of casually employed
Lucy Hodges takes a look at universities' reliance on part-time lecturers in a THES supplement on the changing profile of academic staff and students. During the 1990s a growing army of casual staff...
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Letters for publication in The THES
Letters for publication in The THES should arrive by Tuesday morning. Letters should be double-spaced, written on one side of the paper and as short as possible. The editor reserves the right to...
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A trip over red tape
Elaine Carlton reports on the energy expended in the assessment race. A growing mountain of paperwork and red tape is threatening to overwhelm university academics, stall research and turn top...
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Appointments
INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS On October 1, the following will take office for the 1996/97 session. President: Robert Hawley, chief executive, British Energy. Divisional Chairmen: Computing and...
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Euro-call to break traditions
Higher education funding should reward colleges and universities that promote access and support for students from non-traditional backgrounds, a Council of Europe report has proposed. It calls for a...
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All out in November
All university staff, from porters to professors, from both old and new universities, could walk out in industrial action this November. Two higher education unions have voted to ballot their members...
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Expertise shortfall
Organisations should improve their expertise in staff planning to fit in with the current climate of "downsizing" and decentralisation, according to a report released this week by the Institute for...
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Trio launch hi-tec boost
Edinburgh's three universities have joined forces in a radical scheme to stimulate the growth of local high-tech companies. The "Connect" programme, launched by Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Napier...
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IBM Bangor centre
The University of Wales at Bangor has opened a IBM Centre of Excellence for Computational Chemistry. The centre is designed to boost collaboration between the university and industry, providing...
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Enrolments going right up to the wire
Furious competition for students means universities and colleges are cautious about assessing enrolment success this year until the new term begins, writes Harriet Swain. Many will be working right...
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Clampdown on foreigners
China is tightening controls on the hiring of foreign teaching staff by universities, who use them as an excuse to bump up tuition charges. Between 1991 and 1995, some 600 institutions, mostly...
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V-cs retreat on budget
Australian higher education unions have accused vice chancellors of using the federal government's budget cuts and the need to pay a wage rise as a pretext to impose large-scale redundancies. They...
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Teaching the art of learning
S. Taylor wrote that the central purpose of a first degree is "to facilitate and encourage the transformation of a person from being reliant on being 'taught' to being capable of 'teaching' oneself...
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Shephard's scars
In the last of our series about university memories, Gillian Shephard tells Simon Midgley about viva panic at Oxford. Now that was a point of extreme difficulty," Gillian Shephard says, wincing at...