Clarke degree 'void'
The vice chancellor of Nottingham Trent University has received a solicitor's letter warning him that today's planned conferment of an honorary doctorate on Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor of the...
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Just write for the scientists
A New York-based psychoanalyst and writer has beaten four British academics to win the Rhone-Poulenc science book prize. Arno Karlen has fuelled the growing debate about whether writers or scientists...
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Charity cash to health falls
Charity funding for medical research has dropped for the first time in ten years, according to figures released by the Association of Medical Research Charities. Nearly Pounds 22 million was wiped...
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Staff disputes hit Anglican colleges
Two Anglican church colleges are embroiled in industrial relations upheavals involving dismissals of senior members of staff. Cheltenham and Gloucester College of 糖心Vlog has lost an...
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Cornwall to name site for campus
Cornwall's proposed new university will be designed to support "lifetime learning", Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice chancellor of Exeter University, has promised. Schools, colleges and workplaces...
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Happy returns: For the first time in centuries sheep graze on the green outside Durham cathedral
(Photograph) - Happy returns: For the first time in centuries sheep graze on the green outside Durham cathedral. Above, Paul Stokes and Louise Gidney, of Durham University's archaeology department,...
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Asylum quirk
The Government has promised to review its Asylum and Immigration Bill after vice chancellors raised fears that overseas students and universities would fall foul of legislation barring foreign...
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Union checked
Universities and colleges are to spell out how they have implemented student union reforms. Eric Forth, higher education minister, is checking that the principles of "choice, fairness, democracy,...
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NUS wins private loans deal
The National Union of Students has claimed a victory in securing concessions from two major banks bidding to run privatised loan schemes, writes Alan Thomson. NUS president elect Douglas Trainer said...
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Blunkett targets key skills for all
The Labour party has launched a Pounds 1.5 billion new deal for the young offering a guarantee of minimum qualifications for school-leavers and a choice of work or education for 18 to 25-year-olds....
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Italian jobs favour foreign professors
The article by Dr Davies on Italian universities (THES, April 26) raises some well-taken points, which are being widely discussed in Italy. However it contains a very serious imprecision, which I...
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Nolan shines complaint torch
University and college staff and students would have new channels for complaints under recommendations expected to be made this week by Lord Nolan's Committee on Standards in Public Life. Further and...
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Sir Ron picks dream team
Sir Ron Dearing's recipe for a well-balanced and dynamic committee of inquiry into higher education appears to be flavour of the month among the academic community, writes Tony Tysome. Vice...
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Post marked
The absence of any Standing Conference of Principals members on Sir Ron Dearing's committee has raised an eyebrow or two. One commentator noted this week: "He's got off SCOP-free". But as Sir Ron...
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Fan-tastic
Bob Oxtoby, with luck soon to be the 105th member of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals when Bolton Institute gets upgraded, has a second identity as possibly the world's unluckiest...