Dearing of course
Ever get the feeling that higher education is actually run by about half a dozen people, all wearing about four hats apiece? Delighted to be awarded an honorary degree by Trinity College of Music,...
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Trying time
The Brunel University College rugby club are at it again. One might have thought a 104-4 demolition of new masters Brunel University sufficient response to the loss of their old identity as West...
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Cabbage pitched
Another poster you are unlikely to see comes from the Association of University Teachers. It aims to bring in recruits using the slogan "Food for Thought" and a curious image of sliced-up red cabbage...
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Murphy's address
Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students, narrowly avoided a possible stoning to death before last week's launch of the NUS campaign against campus racism. The posters for the campaign...
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Union fury over pension privatisation
Unions in further and higher education and across the civil service reacted with anger this week at the Government's announcement that the running of the Teachers' Superannuation Scheme is to be...
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Professor claims book fails to be novel
A British-based academic is at the centre of an Australian literary scandal. Brian Matthews, head of London University's Menzies centre for Australian studies, found himself sharing Australian front...
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GNVQ plan doubts
Higher education quality watchdogs have questioned the need for new higher-level General National Vocational Qualifications. Work already under way on defining academic, vocational and personal...
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Staff query colleagues' exit
Staff at Coventry University's school of engineering want an independent inquiry into the way the institution's senior management handled disciplinary proceedings brought against two professors, who...
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Recycling
(Photograph) - Recycling: Darren Speck, a first-year engineering student at Warwick University, seen here with a sculpture, won the BTEC engineering student of the year award last year with his...
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Video's star rises over in East London
Job applicants to British universities may soon find face to face interviews have become obsolete after the University of East London successfully conducted an interview with a United States...
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Geoffrey Alderman
Geoffrey Alderman, head of academic development and quality assurance at Middlesex University, is not a member of the quality assessment committee of the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England...
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Food for thought
The British Association for the Advancement of Science this week launched its bid to write a youth science White Paper with a public debate on food production at Surrey University. The debate is the...
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Bickerstaffe elected
Rodney Bickerstaffe has been elected general secretary of Unison. Mr Bickerstaffe, who has been an associate general secretary of the union since July 1993, won 151,893 votes in a membership ballot...
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Esteemed nationalism scholar dies
Ernest Gellner was at the height of his influence and leading a remarkable flowering of academic interest in nationalism when he was struck down by an unexpected heart attack at Prague airport on...
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Constitutions are fine, Nolan told
Additional safeguards against impropriety in the running of universities are not necessary, the Nolan Committee was told by university chairmen this week. In recent cases where allegations of...