Don's diary
Monday Mixed feelings about my lot. The usual news of traffic jams and bad weather to delight the heart of the home worker but irritation that the "server is down" and therefore my virtual existence...
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What is the use of maths?
As far as I can remember, I have always found mathematics a thoroughly enjoyable, if challenging, endeavour. It carries the same intellectual challenge and sense of competition as chess and gives the...
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Porterhouse blues
(Photograph) - Porterhouse blues: Porters in traditional universities earn an average of Pounds 7,613 a year, despite working for some of the richest universities in the world. They would do better...
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Colleges could lose their medics
Medicine could become a postgraduate only subject and be transfered from universities to the NHS, a British Medical Association meeting heard this week. Colin Smith, chairman of the BMA Medical...
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Low pay scandal shames sector
HIGHER education workers are being exploited through a culture of low pay that leaves some earning half the amount of their private sector counterparts, a new survey has revealed. Trade unions have...
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Oxford women profs penalised
Most women professors at Oxford earn less than their male counterparts, with some on salaries as low as Pounds 30,000 a year. The discrepancy between male and female salaries at one of the country's...
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GNVQs fail to deliver for higher hopefuls
ONLY a fifth of those who register for Advanced General National Vocational Qualifications get into higher education, a study published today by the Institute of Education has found. Sir Ron Dearing'...
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Pass is equivalent of an A-level grade E
A PASS in an Advanced level GNVQ is broadly equivalent in quality to a grade E at A-level, a report from the Office of Standards in Education has found. The HMI report, Standards of Achievement in...
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Battle for the skies
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal for England, and Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, will meet science minister John Battle next Thursday in a bid to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory at...
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66 institutions in the red
SIXTY-SIX institutions were in deficit in 1995/96, according to figures from the 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency, 15 more than in 1994/95. HESA's new reference volume, Resources of Higher...
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More academics chosen by Labour
ACADEMICS were favoured with more key posts by the Government this week. Two of the four new members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee are professors. Charles Goodhart, professor of...
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Human teaching pledge for Highlands and Islands
TECHNOLOGY will not overshadow human teaching in the proposed University of the Highlands and Islands, according to its new adviser, Alistair MacFarlane, former principal of Heriot-Watt University,...
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Ashmolean's white hope stubbed out
THE BOARD of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, will meet shortly to consider how to fill the post of director turned down by American curator, George Goldner. Dr Goldner, senior curator at the...
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Job swap graduates take toll on employers
GRADUATES who change jobs frequently early in their career could be costing UK employers up to Pounds 300 million, the recruitment industry was told at this week's Institute of Personnel and...
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East Anglia wins sports park lottery award
THE University of East Anglia has won a Pounds 7.5 million National Lottery grant for its planned East Anglian Sports Park. The English Sports Council has given the go-ahead for the Pounds 10 million...