TUCing you in
TUC general secretary John Monks has high hopes for the movement's own television show, TUTV. "The TUC has bought space at 5.45am to show programmes designed to appeal to trade union activists," he...
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The glum zone
Dundee University's new departmental handbook reminds us that in 1989, the court decided "to adopt a policy banning smiling in all parts of the university . . . except in areas specifically...
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Quip per quo
No need for the Association of University Teachers to fork out on an expensive after-dinner speaker. General secretary David Triesman is always first to his feet. At last week's AUT conference he...
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Students to get learning vouchers
A voucher funding system for post-16 education and training to create a more student-led market is proposed in a Government-backed consultation paper published this week, writes Tony Tysome. But the...
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Medics on community call
A shift in the teaching of medical students out of universities and into the community was launched this week as the Government proposed changes to its allocation of funds for medical teaching. From...
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Research overheads row hits new peak
Disagreement over who should pay the overheads for charity-funded medical research increased this week as the issue became linked to charities' demands that they should benefit financially from the...
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Envoy soothes union fears
A TUC special envoy is trying to make peace between the two main lecturers' unions after fears of membership wars at universities merging with colleges. Union relations officer Brian Ward was called...
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Banking on success
(Photograph) - Banking on success: Geoff Evans, head of the school of applied sciences at South Bank University, expected to spend this week dealing with the ÌÇÐÄVlog Quality Council's...
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Middle class access fear
Europe's universities have been warned they risk barring the middle classes from higher education if they try to bridge the funding gap by increasing tuition fees substantially without tax...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from the Swiss nightmare of an unmarried mother: "'But soon,' he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, 'I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these...
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Speaking Volumes: Purity and Danger
Leonore Davidoff on Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger . The reason why one voice speaks to another remains a mystery but my sense of the world was undoubtedly deeply effected by Mary Douglas's Purity...
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Weights and measures
This week's Times league tables have been changed to meet some universities's concerns over the picture they paint of the sector. In an introduction to the data used to compile the tables Tom Cannon...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF WALES COLLEGE OF CARDIFF Research grants Dr M. Woodhouse, Pounds 195,800 from the Medical Research Council (visual and cognitive development in infants and young children with Down's...
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Events
GERMAN RELATIONS Postwar British cartoons depicting Germany are being exhibited at the University of Wales, Cardiff Student Union Building, Park Place, until May 31. The 75 cartoons concentrate on...
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Chairs
BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY Kevin McGuinness, former legal practitioner in Ontario, has been appointed to a sponsored chair in business law. DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY Personal chairs have been awarded to...