Space odyssey
Fari Akhlaghi describes the launch of an MBA in facilities management. Last year Sheffield Hallam University launched an MBA programme in facilities management. Already it is able to boast 33...
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The big squeeze
Institutions must wake up to pressures on space, says Paul Roebuck. Universities have been behaving as if the rise in student numbers was akin to an invasion of lemmings. They have paid scant...
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The trouble with timetables
Squeeze a balloon one way and it expands another. Alan Bowles reflects on how to fit the courses in. Animals mark their territory and defend it to the last in order to survive. Similar ancestral...
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Promotions
GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Readerships: John Baily, former senior lecturer, reader in ethnomusicology; Christopher Baugh, senior lecturer, reader in drama; Christopher Jenks, senior...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF LUTON Trevor Kletz, a visiting fellow in the chemical engineering department, has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL...
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Events
Primates and Man The Royal Society and The British Academy are holding a discussion meeting on "Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man" on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 4 and 5 (...
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Awards
College of North West London The gold medal award given by the Building Employers Confederation was presented to Frank Horan, head of the college's built environment and construction department.
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Appointments
Four independent directors have been appointed to the board of the ÌÇÐÄVlog Quality Council: Kenneth Dixon, deputy chairman, Bass plc and pro-chancellor and chairman of the Council of the...
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Splitting image
Alan Ryan asks if America can attend to the difference of its many peoples and still preserve a single ethical, political culture. When I was very much younger, political theory rotated around...
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'Students take more professional approach'
"It has been a long haul," says Xavier Testar, assistant professor of biology at the University of Barcelona, of education reforms. Lecturers at the university, a vast institution with 68,400...
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Estate strategies hit the big time
Two years ago, the funding councils told all higher education institutions to prepare estate strategies. The reason was to improve the management of property resources and to satisfy the councils...
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Auto industry launches star wars for cars
Three research councils are to give millions of pounds to a 15-year national programme to boost the United Kingdom's standing as a world leader in high-technology road vehicle manufacture. The...
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Lecturers' pay lags behind schoolteachers'
Salaries for university academics have risen by less than half the rate for school teachers since 1979. While the average increase in earnings was 37 per cent for all employees between April 1979 and...
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North Wales en route to Normal merger
Bangor University and the north Wales town's Normal College will merge on March 1, 1996. The new institution will cater for 6,700 students, and the changes will mean that two higher education...
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Government rules on primates
Primates caught in the wild are to be banned for use in research, the Government has announced. And regulations on the use of captive-bred primates are to be tightened. But anti-vivisection groups...