Art college to merge with Heriot-Watt
Edinburgh College of Art looks set to merge with Heriot-Watt University in around 18 months' time. College governors voted 13 to 10 on Monday in favour of talks aimed at full merger by summer 2001....
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DFEE is 'neglecting lifelong learning'
The Department for Education and Employment has been criticised for neglecting lifelong learning in its proposed research strategy. "We wish to register our strong surprise that the (DFEE's research...
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Survey reveals lack of museum research
Research and scholarship in museums is under threat, with 80 per cent of museums reporting that they are not as active in research as they should be, according to a survey by the Museums and...
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Fender gets inflation-busting wage rise
Sir Brian Fender, chief executive of the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England, landed a 5.6 per cent pay rise this year, taking his salary and benefits to Pounds 133,000, more than than all...
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NVQ provider loses Pounds 3.2 million claim
A leading private training provider has lost a claim for Pounds 3.2 million against North Derbyshire Tertiary College. Link Training, part of the Spring Group of Companies, alleged the college failed...
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Tongue-tied birds could help stutterers
The discovery of stuttering song birds by a team of scientists has raised the prospect of new drugs and therapies to tackle the speech affliction in humans. David Rosenfield, a researcher at the...
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Inertia of physics in Nobels
Physicists lag behind other British academics in winning Nobel prizes. It is 22 years since a British scientist won the Nobel prize for physics. In economics and medicine, it is three and six years...
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Safety comes first
Your report "University safety record panned" (THES, October 1) about concerns over safety in universities and research institutions rightly says that the University of Cambridge takes health and...
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Users anonymous
It is astonishing that the research assessment exercise panel for French "could not think of anyone" to represent users on the panel ("Subject panels in need of 'users' to get funding", THES, October...
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Real women, real facts
I was fascinated by Natalie Fenton's account of why performance-related pay is bad for women ("Women - don't buy this line", THES, October 1). For example, I never knew that "the industrialisation of...
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Reason and response
In Gary Day's review of my Critique of Postcolonial Reason ("Muffling the voice of the Other", THES, August 6), Day claims that "Spivak's interest I is in how satiI was, (as) she argues, a form of...
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Pedagogic points
Stephen Rowland and Alan Jenkins (Teaching, THES, October 1) are rightly concerned about the status of research into teaching and learning in higher education. One intriguing solution to raising the...
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Pedagogic points
I was amazed to see that under the extraordinary headline "Confusion over whether teaching itself should count towards the RAE" (THES, October 1) appeared an article written by myself. I would never...
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Unwelcome visitor
Attempts to justify the visitor's role (Letters, THES, October 1) miss the point. There are just two crucial issues. Through an accident of history, students are subject to different legal paths at...
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On the streets
(Photograph) - On the streets: students from Oxford and elsewhere protested on Sunday against tuition fees and to demand the restoration of grants. Meanwhile one in seven students who applied for...