Subjects object to funding banding
Geographers, psychologists and archaeologists are protesting over plans to place their disciplines in the lowest funding band. Professional groups representing the three subjects were due to meet...
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Economists call for top tax hike
LABOUR's decision to freeze the top income tax rate at 40 per cent for its first term in power, should it win the general election, would sharply reduce its chance of cutting unemployment and...
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Digital scholars defend IT record
THES reporters examine the fall-out from the research assessment exercise now that funding weightings are known ACADEMICS engaged in digital scholarship have called for greater recognition of their...
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Growing colleges get cash jitters
A GOVERNMENT threat to tear up an open cheque signed to encourage college growth has rocked further education. If it goes ahead, colleges will have to find Pounds 84 million to pay for extra students...
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Binary divisions rear their head
THES reporters examine the fall-out from the research assessment exercise now that funding weightings are known NEW universities are moving up research ratings faster than their older counterparts...
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Retirements go ahead
LECTURING and teaching unions have welcomed a Government "climbdown" over attempts to block early retirements prior to the controversial reform of the Teachers Superannuation Scheme. The Association...
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Open to question
Better news for mature students, following Birkbeck's unhappy efforts in University Challenge. The Open University this week hammered Swansea by 395 points to 85. The same people who felt that...
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Coming to blows
And more evidence that something is wrong with young people today? A feature in Edinburgh University's student newspaper claims: "Most of us who have tried the sad, sordid sex of a one night stand...
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Waddle away from this
This week's award for fast-reacting opportunism goes jointly to Bradford City footballer Chris Waddle, whose instant reaction to seeing Everton's goalkeeper off his line in Saturday's FA Cup tie was...
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Peeling power
(Photograph) - Peeling power: catering student Mandy Cooke demonstrates a spud's uses at Sheffield Hallam University Potato Revival festival
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Lois lost for ever
A Napier University spokeswoman has dismissed reports that the popularity of a Web site for Teri Hatcher, who plays Lois Lane in The New Adventures of Superman, left by an information systems...
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Witty ditty
The upgrading of Waterford's technical college has inspired Irish jokers to recall the legendary Grimsby project provisionally titled the South Humberside Institute of Technology until acronymic...
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Big buck
Glasgow University's staff newsletter has been enthusing about the Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition, to which it is the largest single lender, which has been wowing them in New York after drawing...
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Cock-eyed
It is always reassuring when an advert can prove that the people selling a service have a first-hand knowledge of it. So hearty congratulations to Oxford Brookes University for the publicity for its...
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Ear to the ground
And the Universtiy of Oxford also deserves a pat on the back for omitting nothing in its painstaking construction of a How not to get Planning Permission case-study for its new business school. The...