Correction
The salary increase for Paisley University's vice-chancellor, Richard Shaw, in The THES league table of salaries (February 5) between 1996-97 and 1997-98 is 3 per cent and not 11.1 per cent. This...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES..we asked how you split the child care Penelope Griffin Equity research officerUniversity of South Australia By moving back to Australia. Child care for our 16-month-old...
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Agony Aunt
Q) Shouldn't universities be promoting lecturers on the basis of their teaching ability rather than just their publication record? A frustrated pedagogue A) Yes they should and, more critically, they...
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`Why enrol at poppleton when you can study at harvard?'
British universities and colleges are poorly organised to take advantage of the globalisation of higher education. So warns a discussion paper on higher education in the 21st century prepared by...
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Calls for intellectual property agreement
The Association of University Teachers wants a "fairer" agreement on intellectual property rights between academics, employers and publishers. The union has drawn up a draft "model agreement" and...
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Tuition fees top of NUS agenda
Thousands of students will descend on Blackpool next week for the first National Union of Students conference since its members started paying tuition fees. The impact of fees and new maintenance...
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Access for all
(Photograph) - Oxford University undergraduate Charles Blacklock shows potential applicant Philip Nartey around as part of a 'shadowing' scheme to encourage ethnic minorities to come to Oxford. It...
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Funders likely to favour bids for single-site CTI successors
A two-stage bidding process extending over the spring and summer will pick teams to run 24 subject-based teaching and learning centres. Working under contract to a central management unit at the new...
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VE day
The University of Salford is leading an academic-industry partnership to exploit Virtual Environment (VE) research. The project has won Pounds 1.7million from the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for...
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Network futures
UKERNA has released the results of a study by John Dyer into the future of the academic network architecture, to encourage comment (www.ja.net/ documents/net_arch.html). The document outlines the...
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Lenin gets a new lease of life
Europe's largest library is about to go online. Nick Holdsworth reports. The Lenin Library is going online. More than 40 years after Europe's biggest public library opened its doors to readers,...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Dream I am a professor lecturing to a class of naked male students. Tussling in bed, split the crowd into groups. Students move about reminding me of the benefits of being a didactic kind...
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Short-lived campaign
Headlines this week heralding a huge rise in university numbers must have pleased the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, which announced a campaign to push for more places only on Friday....
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Godthab
Lise Lennert, a school inspector, has been appointed minister of culture, education and research in Greenland, following last month's general election. Ms Lennert is not a member of the Greenland...
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University degree in catching the tube
Plymouth University is looking to catch surfing's wave of popularity with the country's first degree in surf science and technology. The university will offer places to about 20 students this...