Colleges are squirrelling away money unnecessarily instead of spending it on improving their service to students, the Further Education Funding Council has warned. Publishing full and aggregated 1997...
'Mr Watts, who had been subject to hate mail inviting him to "settle in the farthest reaches of hell", was suspended as a result of allegations made by the Jenkinses' The dean at the centre of...
Whistleblowers now have statutory protection against persecution and victimisation by employers. Legal protection for those who blow the whistle on fraud, malpractice and crime in the workplace came...
A meeting to thrash out how best to assess clinical medical research in the next research assessment exercise will be held later this month in an attempt to end months of uncertainty. Despite the...
At least two colleges face the threat of sanctions under the government's new stand against failing colleges. Senior managers at Kidderminster College in Worcestershire have already initiated...
British medical researchers have much to celebrate. They have a Medical Research Council that seems to understand their needs (page 26); a host of research charities funding their work, including one...
Plans developed by four geography departments for a shared bank of computer assessable questions covering the core of the undergraduate geography curriculum are the logical corollary of the policy...
Clinical academics must be included in partnerships to ensure quality in the future NHS, writes Michael Powell Abolition of general practitioner fund-holding and the internal market have been at the...
Perhaps on reflection Peter Atkins will regret that he did not write with more restrained common sense and less vindictive vituperation about the "intrinsic evil" and "incipient perversion" of...
What a joyless image of post-Christian Christmas Peter Atkins presents. Through a "tidal wave of secular excess", in which the general populace is "fleeced, conned, cajoled and pressed into...
In your new year message ("How to attract funders in the new year, THES, January 1) you urge all in education to pitch the merits - not the needs - of their institutions harder. Surely, we must do...
Your round-up of 1998 ("Who made a splash?", THES, January 1) says the "stunt" last May by the Leeds University fine art students was a "staged simulation aimed at raising fundamental questions about...
I was dismayed when I heard early last summer that Keele University intended to sell the Turner collection of books on the history of mathematics. Although not a member of senate, I wrote to all...
Every effort should be made to keep the Turner collection in Britain. It should never have been allowed to pass into private hands. The law needs strengthening to prevent financially hard-pressed...
The books should be offered to the British Library or some other academic institution where they can be viewed by interested scholars. They should certainly not be sold to a private collector if they...