Ulster gains associate
The Northern Ireland Hotel and Catering College's announcement that it is to become an associate college of Ulster University is being seen as a tangible vote of confidence in the prospects of a...
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Prison sentence for flag burning
A Belarusian pro-democracy activist, Andrey Romasheuski, deputy chairman of the Beer-Lovers' party, has received a two-year suspended prison sentence in connection with a student demonstration in...
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Professors go back to schoolroom
University professor Isak Frumin spends most of his time at school. An associate professor at Krasnoyarsk State University, Siberia, Dr Frumin, a mathematician, is also head teacher of Russia's first...
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Don't train 'em, just get 'em out
Anna Tobin (THES, July 26) highlights a pressing problem in higher education: the inability of some academics to teach. If the lack of a teaching qualification is the problem, why are there so many...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Refreshed by a weekend away from my computer, I am awoken as ever by the noise of trucks passing my bedroom window on their way to Spitalfields market in east London. Even the double glazing...
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Unrest follows arrests
A new wave of ethnic protest has broken out in Skopje, capital of Macedonia, following the sentencing of five academics of the unofficial Albanian-language University of Tetovo to terms of...
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Smelling of roses: David Aukland
(Photograph) - Smelling of roses: David Aukland, graduate dean in the University of Manchester's faculty of engineering and science has devised a system that can translate cutting-edge research into...
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Malaysia investigates franchise bribe claims
The Malaysian government is facing calls for a public inquiry into the marketing practices of institutions keen to sell overseas franchise courses to the country's students. The inquiry could have...
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Principal named
The principal of Harper Adams Agricultural College, Shropshire, has been replaced. In a surprise move, Graham McConnell left his post by mutual agreement with the college governors last week and...
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Catholic crisis call
The viability of teacher training institutions in Northern Ireland is under threat because of falling entry requirements on the mainland, according to a Catholic college principal. Martin O'Callaghan...
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Kirk targets lifelong learning
The Church of Scotland hopes to implement a voucher scheme for continuing professional development which its ministers could use for postgraduate qualifications, writes Olga Wojtas. Sandy McDonald,...
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Let the divining ROD do it
Graham Dawson and Grant Lewison describe how their Research Outputs Database can show who is funding what where. Two recent articles in The THES have drawn attention to sources of research funding...
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To wit to woo at a student's hotel
Some time ago a wit wrote a particularly provocative article in one of the business reviews. His central claim was that only 66 organisations had left their stated purposes unchanged since 1600. They...
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US boss flies home
Nancy Bord resigned this week as head of Liverpool Business School and plans to return to the United States "to pursue other interests", less than a year after her appointment as the United Kingdom's...
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Report calls for green funding
Being a deep shade of green should be a condition of winning university funding, says a report which has been welcomed by John Gummer, environment secretary, and Gillian Shephard, education and...