Health pay parity
Medical academics are still waiting for Lord Henley, higher education minister, to reply to the letter demanding cash to maintain the historic pay parity between them and NHS staff. His spokeswoman...
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Dawkins delivers
Controversial Oxford-based biologist Richard Dawkins is to give the 21st Richard Dimbleby lecture to be broadcast next Tuesday. He will argue that science has a cultural role that goes far beyond its...
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Jubilee appeal
Oxford University Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies has launched a Pounds 5-million appeal for its silver jubilee next year. The centre started the academic year with a new director, Bernard...
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Rise confirmed in top degrees
Some universities consistently award a higher than average proportion of first and upper second class degrees, a national study has found. Relatively high scores have been maintained over more than...
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Unions set for pay fight
THE higher education sector held its breath today for the results of eight separate trade union ballots which could force the first ever shutdown of United Kingdom universities and colleges. Early...
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Maverick Scot backs three years
A Scottish principal has called into question the four-year honours degree as the norm in higher education north of the border. Donald Leach, who retired this week after 11 years as principal of...
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Pixel partners
Department of Trade and Industry funds will help to create a "virtual centre of excellence" in digital broadcasting and multimedia technology. The project involves the National Film and Television...
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Tables showing university income
Tables showing university income in the industry supplement (THES, November 1, p32-33) were derived from data collected and published by the 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency, whose assistance...
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Two more split from pay deal
TWO MORE universities are giving staff enhanced pay awards in breach of national pay bargaining. Central Lancashire and De Montfort universities have imposed interim pay awards of 3 per cent and 2.9...
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Speaking Volumes: Pornography
Catherine Itzin on Andrea Dworkin's Pornography . I read Andrea Dworkin's Pornography when it was first published in 1981 by the Women's Press and appeared on the syllabus of the new MA in women's...
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A bit of ragga about the edges
New Ethnicities and Urban Culture
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And on the lickspittles spits
The Rules of Art - The State Nobility
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Continuing allure of the lodestone
Driving Force
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Everything except bridges
Civil Engineering Construction Design and Management
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Keeping an electron in its place
Low-Dimensional Semiconductors