Cone zone monitors target students
Wolverhampton University students are being targetted by West Midlands Police keen to see the return of more than 100 yellow traffic cones stolen from local streets. The police have launched a month-...
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Chris Brand tribunal adjourned
Edinburgh University has adjourned a tribunal on psychology lecturer Chris Brand to an unspecified date after failing to complete the hearing last Friday. Mr Brand has been suspended from teaching...
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CVCP likely to keep controversial pay body
THE Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals looks set to retain its controversial pay bargaining body with certain modifications. A review group, set up by the CVCP, is set to recommend that the...
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Solicitors may gain access to Inns of Court
SOLICITORS could join trainee barristers at The Inns of Court School of Law, which wants to expand its role. Since losing its monopoly on bar vocational courses last year, the school has been worried...
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Council tax rule changed
STUDENTS sharing a home with non- or ex-students claiming council tax benefit will no longer have to stump up a share of the bill. Normally, students are exempt from paying the tax and unable to...
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Former dictator alarms tutor
Sammy Adelman, a Warwick University law lecturer, has threatened to withhold teaching from a former military dictator with a poor record in human rights who is expected as a student in September....
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Essex University
In an article last week on the future of physics and chemistry we may have implied that Essex University had cut undergraduate physics and chemistry. In fact, Essex will stop recruiting students to...
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Welsh FE squeeze tightens
The squeeze on Welsh further education will continue in the next academic year. Allocations for 1997-98 announced this week by the Further Education Funding Council for Wales total Pounds 155.794...
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Learning the ropes
(Photograph) - Learning the ropes: professional wrestlers have often been accused of acting in the ring, and now famous moves like the 'Venus Flytrap' and the 'Boston Crab' are being perfected by...
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Labour wins but province still loses
Northern Ireland can't keep its students. The THES looks at the troubled province in its latest regional spotlight The Labour Government will end the controversy over incorporation of Northern...
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Security scare
(Photograph) - Security scare: concern about official cover-ups of serious crimes such as rape, assault and arson on American campuses has prompted students and their parents to propose a law that...
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God, the media and the microchip top the charts
GOD, the media and the computer are the rising stars in the postgraduate market, new figures show. The number of postgraduate qualifications available has grown over the past five years by 65 per...
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Erosion of postgrad subsidy will create elitism, say medics
MEDICINE could soon become the preserve of students from wealthy backgrounds, warns the British Medical Association student committee. The committee, which represents students nationally, campaigned...
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Cambridge lecturer takes High Court stand
A CAMBRIDGE lecturer is seeking to take the university to the High Court for allegedly breaching its statutes governing the promotion of academic staff. Gill Evans, a history lecturer and public...
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Why England's cap fails to fit
Northern Ireland can't keep its students. The THES looks at the troubled province in its latest regional spotlight Robert Cormack of Queen's University and Robert Osborne of Ulster University, known...