Researchers sacked after 25 years' service
Two senior research fellows from Manchester Metropolitan University have been made compulsorily redundant after 25 years. Officals of lecturers' union Natfhe in the north of England are also involved...
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Idea to unblock pipes wins bioscience prize
An environmentally friendly way to prevent zebra mussels and other invading fresh water species from infesting and blocking pipework has won its creators top prize in the Bioscience Business Plan...
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Cabinet calls for ethnic members on councils
More ethnic minorities and women should be proposed as candidates for heads of the funding councils, research councils and other quangos, the Cabinet Office has said. By April 2002, the funding...
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Leeds park trees show victory over Boney
Local historians are working with experts at Leeds Metropolitan University to investigate claims that the trees in Beckett Park, part of the LMU campus, were planted to represent the positions of...
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Access ladder is short of rungs
I agree with much of Alison Goddard's article "Swapping the ghetto for the gown" (THES, March 17). I am a "male success" story of the access system. I joined a one-year full-time course at Abingdon...
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Markets need buyers
Michael Rennie ("A waste of good ideas", THES, March 17) is absolutely right: there is nothing more to be gained from putting additional pressure on overworked academic innovators to push their...
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FE myths scotched
As England grapples with its agenda of foundation degrees and quality improvement for HE provision in colleges ("Quality boss mars new Labour vision", THES, March 17), a reminder of the very...
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FE myths scotched
John Randall's assertion that quality failings in further education colleges are disproportionately high does not present a complete picture of higher education in FE. While it is clear that many FE...
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FE myths scotched
I had feelings of alternating deja vu and concern sitting through a recent presentation on foundation degrees. As John Pratt says (Opinion, THES, March 3), the Dip HE, introduced with a similar...
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Vowels in Vanuatu
In reviewing my book The Origins of Complex Language (Books, THES, February 11), Jacques Guy takes a swipe at academic linguistics, at least as pursued by people more or less influenced by Noam...
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We're all at IT
Rhiannon Chapman ("Academics face egotism charge", THES, March 10) shows her ignorance of university programmes of study in her charge of "rampant egotism" levelled at Britain's academics. There are...
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Graphic complaint
The "For the record" graphic (THES, March 17) is a "stacked area chart", and the rising lines for full and part-time student numbers suggest both contribute to the growth. But close inspection...
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Hefce auditors demand changes after slatin QAA over governance and accountability
Funding council auditors demanded urgent improvements to management and governance at the Quality Assurance Agency after its first audit. The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council demanded immediate...
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Budget brings limited benefits
The budget offered little hope of extra cash for universities, which are already being tempted into closer links with the private sector. In what was clearly a pre-election vote-winning budget,...
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Flea circus at University of Hertfordshire
(Photograph) - It might not be the greatest show on earth, but it might just be the smallest. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, acted as ringmaster for a flea circus...