Contract researchers glimpse future
An official draft agreement to bring terms and conditions of service for thousands of contract researchers into line with those for established staff has been issued for consultation. The concordat...
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Canadians urge caution on performance measure
Performance indicators are slowly making their way into Canadian universities, mainly via Alberta and Ontario, Susan Gray writes. The Council of Ministers of Education of Canada is in favour of the...
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Now home is where the HE is
Large numbers of Britain's 1.5 million students are staying close to home for their education. David Charter analyses HESA's first far-reaching Data Report The growing trend for students to study in...
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Events
VOLUNTARY SECTOR. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations has organised a conference, Researching the UK Voluntary Sector, September 7-8, to be held at the NCVO, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints...
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Chairs
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, LONDON. Michael Barber, professor of education at the University of Keele, chair in education and dean of new initiatives; Brahm Norwich, senior lecturer in department of...
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Appointments
CVCP. Diana Warwick, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, has been appointed chief executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of the University of the...
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'I's have it, guys are on the way
A clear demonstration of the egocentric nature of English speech emerges from a novel experiment at Lancaster University which recently recorded ordinary adult conversations for a week. The research...
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Following man's early footsteps
The use of a mechanical engineering technique more usually associated with industrial robotics than human evolution has led researchers at Liverpool University to conclude that if the earliest...
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Scholars enjoy a sporting chance
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and FE after John Major's announcement of a national review. The relationship between sport and scholarship, not to mention the extent of sports...
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Colleges out in the cold
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and Fe after John Major's announcement of a national review. Further education colleges are complaining bitterly that the Government's sporting...
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Inner cities win the Lottery
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and Fe after John Major's announcement of a national review. The Sports Council is to offer greater amounts of National Lottery funds to inner...
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Earth gets grip on the matter
The sun's sporadic release of matter, which can disrupt power lines and spacecraft, will be predictable within two years. The bombardment of earth with a huge cloud of matter can prove very damaging...
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Medical schools press for cash
Medical schools are warning Government that they must have funding for planned student expansion. The Government is to boost intakes by 10 per cent over the next five years, from 4,470 to 4,970, but...
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Academics keep CAT in the bag
Universities, colleges and professional bodies are reluctant to pull the wide array of credit accumulation and transfer systems across further and higher education into a unified framework with a...
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Skill breaks disabled block
This has been a year of anniversaries for Deborah Cooper. Skill, the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities, which she runs, is 21 years old and the Open University, which has just awarded...