Director of drive and energy
Tony Tysome on the background to the latest move in the Southampton Institute saga On paper, David Leyland's performance as a manager in higher education looks impressive. Since becoming Director of...
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Unions aren't us, thanks
BETTINA RHOADES runs a picket-line gauntlet of union taunts every day, unshakable in her belief that her responsibility is to students, writes Alan Thomson. Mrs Rhoades, a lecturer in floristry and...
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Unions aren't us, thanks
ALAN GREEN, a lecturer in the built environment at the University of Central England, has become disillusioned with unions, writes Harriet Swain. A Natfhe member for 18 years, he failed to renew his...
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Unions aren't us, thanks
ALISTAIR HEADLEY, lecturer in environmental science at Bradford University, was a member of the AUT until 1994, writes Julia Hinde. "I was appalled by the way the AUT did not stand up and fight...
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Membership numbers are on the side
LESS than half of further and higher education lecturers are members of unions and redundancy, early retirement and general disillusionment all threaten further recruitment. The latest membership...
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Strike threats issued
Lecturers' unions want a new deal from New Labour. THES reporters look forward to turbulent conferences and ask four academics why they will not join a union LECTURERS have delivered an ultimatum to...
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Kroto wants more baskets
Britain's only science Nobel prize winner this decade has said that research funding should not be limited to just a few universities, writes Julia Hinde. When Sir Harry Kroto was being presented...
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The Irish radicals
NORTHERN Ireland began to investigate a credit accumulation and transfer system only a year ago, but has produced the most radical proposals of all. It aims to develop a single post-14 credit...
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Kent does a rejig to avoid a shortfall
The University of Kent has agreed a restructuring programme to deal with its predicted Pounds 2-million funding shortfall. The university is to cut 35 academic and 55 support staff posts. An early...
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What is a credit scheme?
TRSHA credit accumulation scheme aims to give students flexibility, allowing them to move between departments and institutions, and to dip in and out of education. Such schemes break down the full...
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Scotland got there first
Scotland pioneered the new approach to credit when all 21 higher education institutions formally backing the Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (Scotcat) framework in 1991. This established a...
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Temporary plight of solo mums
Women of Afro-Caribbean origins are four times as likely as white women to have children out of wedlock, researchers claim. A three-year study by researchers at the Policy Studies Institute in London...
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Light on arthritis
RESEARCHERS have made a breakthrough in the battle against Rheumatoid Arthritis. Brian Stutton at King's College London's Randall Institute and Michael Taussig of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge...
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Baby bio
EDINBURGH scientists are aiming to produce a stage-by-stage, chronological listing of the tissues present in the first eight weeks of the development of the human embryo. The university's...
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Double first in love affairs
The better educated you are, the more likely you are to have an affair, new research on sexual attitudes has found. Men and women with degrees and A levels are almost twice as likely to have an...