DCS : Well, mother-in-law, I've got some very good news. M-in-law : Really, what's that? DCS : My department got a 5 in the RAE. M-in-law : What's that? Wife : Oh, don't be silly; he's been talking...
The Copyright Tribunal has ruled in favour of universities in the battle over photocopying royalties. Caroline Davis looks at the tribunal's decisions. After three months' deliberation, the tribunal...
APPOINTMENTS Royal College of Art Felicity Aylieff , ceramicist and professor of ceramics at Bath Spa University College, has been appointed senior tutor in the RCA's ceramics and glass department....
February Attend a long interview with the vice-chancellor in response to my earlier letter asking for a review of my role at the university. After serving more than ten years as dean of school, I...
This week's appointment of Carmel Hanna as employment and learning minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly came as a bit of a surprise. Her name had hardly featured in the speculation surrounding...
Generous offers of help have deluged the offices of The THES since last week's publication of the results of the research assessment exercise. Compiling a league table based on the results gained by...
And now for the results of The THES 's 2001 celebrity scientist competition. The rough-and-ready rankings are based on the total number of direct quotations of at least one sentence published in...
Rumours that Lord Browne is a candidate to be the next vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge gained strength last week when he was named in the Cambridge University Reporter . The "people's...
One of the first victims of widening participation may be social inclusion, says Alex Price. Higher education has never had such a high profile. The government's plan to achieve a 50 per cent...
Research collaboration in Europe could be the way to compete with the US, says Ian Halliday. It seems appropriate in the week after the research assessment exercise results to turn from a domestic...
Researchers still do not know how much funding they will receive next year. A compromise reached by funding chiefs last week has pleased no one, while the government has conceded that the top...
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge boosted their standing in some research assessment exercise league tables through special treatment, writes Alison Goddard. Research-active college staff at...
Sainsbury touts UK's latest brain gains Science minister Lord Sainsbury has announced the latest batch of scientists joining the brain gain into Britain. The Institute of Ophthalmology, part of...
News Future shock? What will universities look like in 2010? The tots on their way to university Features Can the euro make Britons more European? Anthropologist Willem Wolters looks at how currency...
Christmas may be a time of giving but at least one university has had to issue rules for staff who accept gifts from students amid concerns that they could be construed as bribes to bolster results....