UCoSDA is a guide
TWO points in Alison Utley's engaging but in places misleading piece "Battle over training models" (THES, May 2) need clarifying. First, I have not sent questionnaires to academics in Scotland. The...
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The rise of the AUT
I WAS disappointed to see in your articles on lecturers' unions (THES, May 16) although you referred to the Association of University Teachers Council you omitted any mention of my presidential...
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A strike too far
LAST week the work of Kingsway College was disrupted by a one-day strike backed by fewer than 20 per cent of the college's lecturers. The action was driven through by a small political minority...
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Why credit is not due
AM I alone in having reservations about the ever increasing movement towards a credit-based modular system of higher education? My problems, from the point of view of a technological subject, are...
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Don's diary
Monday What time is it? Here in Chicago it is 6.30pm but, in my post-flight consciousness, it is after midnight and therefore Tuesday. Whichever, it is dark. Dimly-lit downtown looms like a manmade...
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God wins place in Poland
In a referendum on Sunday the Polish people look set to agree a new constitution, one that will, at long last, replace the model fraternally bequeathed by Stalin in 1952. The vote comes at a critical...
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Cleaner way to a brighter future
David Blunkett has been inundated with open letters but I have not seen a single mention of clerical and support staff. When staffing was mentioned it was fairly clear it meant academic and research...
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Tribal chic
(Photograph) - Tribal chic: The newsreader Trevor MacDonald, ill-fitting suits and Barbra Streisand were among the sources of inspiration for designs from Edinburgh College of Art fourth-year fashion...
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Akker takes legal advice
NATFHE chief John Akker is to take legal advice on challenging the union procedures which led to his sudden suspension amid claims of incompetence. Union insiders say that former general secretary Mr...
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Merritt inquiry urges code clarity
Clearer and "more emphatic" guidelines are required for governing bodies in higher education, the National Audit Office has said. An NAO investigation into events which led to the resignation of Neil...
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Principal quits ahead of management probe
Stan Mason, principal of Glasgow Caledonian University and Scotland's highest-paid principal, has unexpectedly given up his post just as the Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council has announced a...
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Rooftop protest
(Photograph) - Rooftop protest: A South Korean student, draped in the country's flag, is arrested on the roof of the Seoul headquarters of the failed Hanbo Steel Company after demanding the arrest of...
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The very titled deeds
The Fate of the English Country House - The Fall and Rise of the Stately 糖心Vlog
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Savagery in the corridors of power
The Impact of Napoleon
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Colonialism on the couch
Mason & Dixon