Contract staff hopes lifted
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has pledged a speedy investigation into improving conditions for contract researchers. Mr McLeish, speaking at an Association...
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Query over whether colleges have the cash to get down to business
The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee has flagged up further education as a key priority, writes Olga Wojtas. Convenor and Scottish National Party MSP John Swinney has...
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Unions fear shift to local pay deal
A senior management negotiator for Scotland's new universities has defended proposals to cut academics' holidays by 20 days in their draft staff contracts. The "Partnership 2000" proposals have drawn...
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Constitution think-tank
The Economic and Social Research Council is funding a Pounds 5 million research programme on devolution and constitutional change, its outgoing chief executive Ron Amann has revealed. Professor Amann...
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On the move
Howard Thomas, dean of the commerce of business administration at the Urbana-Champaign campus, University of Illinois, has been appointed dean of the business school at the University of Warwick from...
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Glittering prizes
Bert Sakmann, director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, has been awarded the honorary degree of DSc (medicine) by the University of London at the first joint...
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Don's diary
Monday Ten emails, two cups of coffeee. Organising a conference that brings together the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), the Henry James Society (US) and the Ford Madox Ford Society was never going to be...
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The THES Diary
Slow on the march They don't make Scottish students like they used to. Forty-five this week marched from Glasgow to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in a tuition fees and grants protest. They...
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Eye witness
Psycho-linguistic expert Valery Belyanin has spent the past three years developing a sophisticated computer program that allows the user to delve behind the surface meaning of texts to discover the...
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World watch
Some 759 Macao middle-school students have taken entrance exams for places at 71 universities and higher education colleges on the Chinese mainland.
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Faculty watches bottom line
A small college near Boston has turned into a national model for a new way of setting faculty salaries in the United States: profit- sharing. A salary formula for faculty at Wheaton College, hammered...
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Readers' reactions
Recently in The THES... Is this art? we asked about The Degree Show, an installation by 14 Leeds students that essentially comprised work by long-established artists David Rodway Lecturer in art and...
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Life stirring on the campus
Among an apparently feckless US student population, Harvey J. Kaye sees signs of a social consience One of television's most popular new series, Felicity, presents the trials and tribulations of a...
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World watch
Australian universities will have to forge stronger links with industry and research money allocation will alter radically if the federal government's green paper on research, New Knowledge, New...
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World watch
Lyons University has launched an appeal to rebuild its library after three-quarters of its books, manuscripts and journals were destroyed. A fire on the night of June 11-12 burnt an estimated 350,000...