Research firms hope for funding
Independent research firms are confident that their long battle for access to support from research councils could soon be over. In a report out last week, but finalised several weeks ago, the...
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Union attacks Pounds 15,000 award
Scotland's largest teaching union has accused the Robert Gordon University of undermining staff confidence and tarnishing its reputation following a settlement deal with a redundant academic. Jack...
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Sussex professor appeals to visitor for senate post
A prominent physics professor has called on the visitor of Sussex University to reinstate him to senate after vice chancellor Gordon Conway cut short his term of office. Norman Dombey, pictured right...
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Sacked head fights Conservative council
The sacked head of a Buckinghamshire adult education centre is to seek reinstatement at an industrial tribunal. Iris Brooksbank claims she was victimised by her employers after offering student...
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Visa block on Iraqi
A dissident Iraqi academic was prevented from delivering a devastating critique of universities under the Saddam Hussein regime because the Foreign Office failed to issue a visa in time for him to...
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Nolan demands that mistakes go public
Firm principles of openness and accountability for the running of universities, colleges and training councils are to be set out by the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life. The committee,...
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Professional help
Lord Henley, the new education and employment minister, has rejected calls for enhanced loans for medical and dental students. Labour and Liberal Democrat peers said that those studying to be doctors...
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Bucks goes solo
The Privy Council has granted degree-awarding powers to Buckinghamshire College, currently a college of Brunel University. The college aims for full university status by 1999.
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Race case pays out
Senior law lecturer, Amir Majid, has settled his race discrimination case against London Guildhall University for Pounds 15,000 compensation and a two-year paid sabbatical. In May an industrial...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service The service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is...
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Baby steps
Research councils are proposing to meet the costs associated with maternity leave for contract researchers according to a consultation document to be issued to institutions by the research councils...
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Title tussle
Vice chancellors were expected to meet the Secretary of State for Education and Employment yesterday (Thursday) to discuss the thorny issue of giving colleges of higher education the title of "...
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World View
(Photograph) - World View: A new exhibition The Earth and the Heavens opened earlier this month at the King's Library (within the British Museum, Great Russell Street London WC1) and runs until...
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Jump in, the water's lovely
Liverpool's long-term unemployed are being asked to take the plunge into a unique Training for Work course - by starting each session with a jacuzzi. Merseyside Training and Enterprise "positive...
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Middlesex sets up `court' for comment
Middlesex University has joined the growing number of former polytechnics to create a court as a forum for wider community involvement in the university. It will meet annually and be made up of MPs,...