Single nursing body wins warm welcome
Nurse educators this week welcomed the government's decision to scrap the nurses' disciplinary body, the United Kingdom Central Council (UKCC), and the four national boards that oversee nurse...
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Disabled cuts put Blunkett in firing line
The government found itself embroiled in another row over disabled people this week after it decided to cut disability allowances for older students. Disability help groups and the National Union of...
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Pounds 114m student aid under attack
More than 90,000 college students will be worse off under the government's much-trumpeted Pounds 114 million student support package, according to the Association of Colleges. The AoC is to express...
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Research rules to remain the same
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England is shying away from demanding that academic departments submit a minimum proportion of researchers for top ratings in the research assessment exercise...
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Hanging on by a thread
The future of Matthew Boulton College hangs in the balance following Whistleblowers' revelations last year of a collapse of governance at the Birmingham college. According to sources close to the...
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Lecturer may face bailiffs over court costs
Cambridge University may have to send the bailiffs to the home of lecturer Gill Evans, who is refusing to pay Pounds 15,000 in legal costs awarded against her in court. Cambridge secured the Pounds...
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OUP fights corner in poetry row
Oxford University Press launched a counter-offensive last week after culture minister Alan Howarth's attack on it for dropping its poetry list. Mr Howarth, a junior minister in the department of...
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US presses enjoy tax freedom
Among university presses in the United States, Yale University Press operates very like the model adopted byCUP and OUP. YUP, founded in 1908, is a department of the university and enjoys tax...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Linda McGowan argued that government policy is deterring mature students from applying to university April Marshall, University of Plymouth Not only did I fail to qualify for...
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On the move
Lord Dearing, who chaired the 1997 national committee of inquiry into higher education, has been appointed chairman of the University for Industry. Tony Greener, chairman of international food and...
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Chris Woodhead
Rock climbing and running are the favoured recreations of Chris Woodhead, chief inspector of schools and dedicated risk-taker. Something of a rebel as a schoolboy, his bad behaviour brought him...
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Harvard dons deny insider trading
Boston United States government prosecutors are investigating charges that two Harvard University economists, involved in a Harvard-sponsored effort to help Russia adapt to capitalism, profited from...
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Interest in British history wanes
Cambridge University Press is cutting the number of monographs it publishes because of a fall in demand from buyers. Richard Fisher, publishing development director of the CUP, said it expected its...
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Wandering with intent
The popular perception of the homeless as aimless wanderers or vagrants is unfounded, says research from Sussex University. Jon May, lecturer in geography at the university's school of cultural and...
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Balloon laser deployed to detect global warming
A balloon-borne laser is about to make a 30-day flight in the battle against global warming. The infrared spectrometer, jointly developed by Cambridge and Strathclyde universities and the National...