Edwards urges AUT to action
Cyril Edwards, the professor who was made redundant by Goldsmiths College last year, is appealing to the Association of University Teachers not to drop its High Court action against the institution....
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Morale hits the pits at Anglia
A majority of staff in one faculty at Anglia Polytechnic University has passed a vote of no confidence in management following substantial redundancies. The 16 redundancies in the faculty of the...
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Silver book staff frozen out
Thousands of further education college lecturers are facing the imposition of a salary freeze for the second year running after the breakdown of pay talks. The Colleges' Employers' Forum is again...
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Quality time
The Higher Education Quality Council has published Managing for Quality: Stories and Strategies, which contains 56 case histories designed to steer academic leaders and managers through current...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. As the men's final at Wimbledon gets underway, I fall asleep feeling quite contented, having just consumed a splendid Sunday lunch at my parents' house. I have recently come "home" for the...
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Castro relaxes grip on jobs
Cubans with academic qualifications will be allowed to engage in private enterprise, according to a new ruling of the ministry of labour and social security. But there is a major restriction. They...
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Students spy on black sheep
Students at Oldenburg University in northern Germany will be encouraged to blow the whistle on professors who are not fulfilling their teaching duties. This is one way in which university president...
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Tax rate change prompts Soros to freeze aid
The Soros Foundation has suspended aid programmes for education, scientific and medical research and cultural activities in Belarus. The decision is a reaction to changes in the tax laws which make...
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Fees hike threatens summer of unrest
The prospect of fee increases in Italy's 50 state universities has sparked new rumblings of student protest for the end of the summer. The Italian parliament passed legislation which eliminates the...
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'Bac' pass row erupts
This year's pass rate in the French school-leaving baccalaureat examination reached a record 75 per cent. But the result has been greeted with some scepticism about standards and even rumours that...
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Leagues expose lecturers' quality quirks
At the end of the academic year in Israel's universities, league tables of the marks given by students to their lecturers are displayed in corridors and common rooms. Apart from their obvious role as...
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The vice chancellors
Three women take up vice chancellor posts in September, bringing the total number of women v-cs in the UK to five. However, their personal styles and reputations are very different. Christine King is...
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Lipstick and white collars
Elaine Williams reports on the slow progress of women in the male world of academic management. Working in universities has been good preparation for a gentleman's club". One of the three new women...
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Hangover cure for the bear with a sore head
Stephen White looks at the widespread problem of alcohol abuse in Russia and the nation's efforts to sober up. It is ten years since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and launched perestroika. Less...
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A nuclear reactionary
Gail Vines meets Alice Stewart, the pioneering epidemiologist and heroine of the anti-nuclear movement. In the mid-1950s, the pioneering epidemiologist Alice Stewart showed that the practice of X-...