Cobbled together
(Photograph) - Cobbled together: Kathryn Coventry, part-time lecturer at the University of Plymouth's school of civil and structural engineering, could provide information for mortgage lenders...
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Queen's, Ulster take out contracts
DOZENS of young contract researchers have lost their jobs in Northern Ireland's two universities over recent months, and more job loses are imminent. In an attack on cuts to research funding in the...
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Prospering cheats on the up
THE EXPANSION of higher education has created a "worrying ambiguity" about cheating, a conference organised by the Society for Research into Higher Education heard last week. Peter Ashworth, head of...
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TVU mixed ability classes 'a threat to standards'
STAFF representatives at troubled Thames Valley University have questioned the findings of a quality report amid claims that mixed-ability classes involving diploma and degree students are...
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Lecturer rejects 'copying' allegation
A SENIOR lecturer at Plymouth University has been accused of copying from other academics' work in his 1986 PhD thesis. Plymouth vice chancellor John Bull has called on the University of the West of...
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Singled out
Talk of academic freedom will be much in the air as the Teaching and Higher Education Bill makes its way through Parliament, but the government doubtless wishes that some of its recruits from the...
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Roll play
Bottom of the class for Teacher Training Agency chief executive Anthea Millett. The teacher trainer-critic's annual chief executive's lecture last week was accompanied by slides peppered with some of...
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Scientific vacuum
Several research council chief executives last week told the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee they knew little of the workings of the Council for Science and Technology, set up after...
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Tenure on hold
Good of Tessa Blackstone to appear at last week's AUT meeting in Manchester on the role of Unesco in higher education. The United Kingdom having rejoined as one of the new Labour government's first...
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Timely bust
Academics and the police don't always get on, but we suspect Amsterdam economics professor Rick van der Ploeg must now think quite warmly of the City of London force. His Centre for Economic Policy...
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Lattrell thinker
Alumnus to be proud of No 152 rejoices in the magnificent name of Lattrell Sprewell. A professional basketball player, he was in the employ of the Golden State Warriors, but now has to rein in the...
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Salary rise protests
Management at Lancaster University came under attack this week as it emerged that the number of senior staff earning in excess of Pounds 50,000 has soared over the past year. The news comes at the...
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Fate of RGO unclear
The fate of Britain's 300-year-old Royal Greenwich Observatory remains unsettled this week after the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, the observatory's current owners, rejected a...
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Stradivari: the myth
THOMAS Levinson's romantic story ("The holy grail of sound", THES, December 12) was well titled; like the holy grail, the pursuit of the "secret" of Stradivari is the quest for a fantasy which has...
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Tough truth on poverty
IF IT IS true that we do not need 54 professors of social policy to tell us that the poor would be better off if they had more money (THES, December 12), it is perhaps equally true that we do not...