Rector plans to unburden dons
Imperial College, London, must decide whether to expunge 150 years of history when it restructures into four faculties next year. The new structure aims to promote interdisciplinary teaching and...
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Brum duo calls it a day over merger
Aston University has abandoned plans to merge with Birmingham University, after Aston academics warned that the merger process was causing "planning blight". Members of Aston's council, who met last...
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Scots AUT issues warning over job loss threat
Edinburgh University's local Association of University Teachers has condemned "disgraceful" proposals for job-loss compensation under a restructuring scheme. Edinburgh, which was facing a £12 million...
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Analysis: Worthy project or just a game?
The TQA cost more than £100m and lasted ten years. Phil Baty draws on exclusive research compiled by The THES and asks: was it worth it? The ten-year project to judge the quality of teaching in every...
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Don's Diary
Monday March is the end of the academic year in Japan, so I begin the last week of my fieldwork. Clear out of the apartment, which has been home since last April. Wonder if my accumulated memorabilia...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Cambridge will award honorary degrees to: Sydney Brenner , director of the Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, and former director of the Medical Research Council's laboratory...
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In the news: Tom Kirkwood
This year's Reith lecturer, Tom Kirkwood, is Britain's foremost expert on how and why we grow old. Professor Kirkwood, 49, is a fan of interdisciplinary research. He started life as a mathematician,...
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Motional maturity
The sense of fun at the National Union of Students conference in Blackpool this week was, at one point, imperilled when the National Executive Committee voted "to work as a united force for change...
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Business is blooming
At last, some good news from the foot-and-mouth crisis. Dundee University's botanic garden has reported a 70 per cent rise in the number of visitors since the outbreak began. Curator Alastair Hood...
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Irish conflict
Ciara Farren, the daughter of Northern Ireland's minister for further and higher education, is to stand in the next general election. While her father, a former University of Ulster academic, runs in...
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Canny calculations
It may normally take Scottish students a year longer than their English counterparts to graduate, but Aberdeen University has just been contacted by the Guinness Book of Records about an 18th-century...
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On the move
Education secretary David Blunkett today appointed the following as directors of the holding company for the e-university : Bob Boucher , vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield; Sandra...
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World watch
Naples A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the director of Naples University's food science department for allegedly helping the Neapolitan Mafia with a bogus butter scam. Francesco Addeo...
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World view: Dare we toss out the test?
A move away from aptitude tests for admissions has reignited debates over access, writes Sheldon Rothblatt. The president of the multi-campus University of California wants to drop the Sat, a...
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Eyewitness: South Georgia
A British Antarctic Survey research station opened last week on South Georgia in the south Atlantic as the last British troops, stationed there since the Falklands war with Argentina in 1982,...