Sorry saga of PhDs
Here at the Centre for Medieval Studies we run a very successful training programme for our research students. Potential PhD applicants should consider opportunities for training and work experience...
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Fighting a fear of isolation
Western academics must not forget their Serbian colleagues in the war's aftermath, Dejan Djokic argues. Pressure on Slobodan Milosevic to resign is building from without and within the Federal...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
The Research Careers Initiative has encouraged institutions to provide career planning courses for contract researchers, but sadly many have poor take-up. The RCI is now investigating more flexible...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
No one told me it was going to be easy to get funding for my PhD or to find a job afterwards. I spent four years in different jobs after completing my MPhil, paying off debts and saving for three...
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QAA code curtails student rights
The Quality Assurance Agency's attempt to control students' access to information through its code of practice on students' complaints and appeals ("Visitor is out in QAA draft code", THES, July 23...
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Access issues
The article on the discussion about policy responses to widening access at the annual Conference of the European Access Network presents what was said by a member of our staff during a debate...
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1Priggish points
Jon Turney, reviewing books by Susan Haack and Sandra Harding, opines that "their disagreements are real, but they have more in common than either is inclined to admit" (Books, THES, July 9). Of...
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1Priggish points
Jon Turney's review of Haack's Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate and Harding's Is Science Multicultural? is a strange and confusing read. It begins by contrasting their epistemologies, with Haack...
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Devaluing our talent
I read with great interest that John Randall's Quality Assurance Agency's office salary budget has been increased to Pounds 129,000 (THES, July 23). I have recently been appointed to the QAA's...
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Oz ruling may lead to back pay claims
MELBOURNE Moves by Australian universities and technical colleges to outsource the provision of services such as payroll, finance, cleaning and maintenance are likely to cost the institutions more...
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Adult education woman's work
Physical education, practical craft and business and vocational courses are the most popular local adult education classes. Enrolments on all courses rose by 4.9 per cent between 1997 and 1998 to...
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Israel puts Derby on hold
The reputation of British universities in the global market suffered a blow this week when Israel's higher education regulatory authority accused institutions of compromising standards to make "as...
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Department of Health
(Photograph) - The Department of Health is taking steps to ensure that all first-year university students are vaccinated against meningitis before they start studies this autumn, writes Madeleine...
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MRC gives Pounds 30 million injection
The Medical Research Council has announced a record annual increase of Pounds 30 million for research into health and medicine. Among those to benefit is a Pounds 7.5 million initiative aimed at...
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Blunkett demands inquiry into Cricklade
Education secretary David Blunkett has invoked special powers for the first time to order an immediate investigation into mismanagement at Cricklade College, writes Phil Baty. Mr Blunkett has ordered...