Upton takes helm at Oxford Brookes
Graham Upton, pro vice chancellor at Birmingham University, has been appointed as the new vice chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. He will take up the post in September. Clive Booth, who has...
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Government urged to be mother of invention
Britain has become more innovative in the 1990s but still fails to match the performance of the United States, according to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. The Lords' report...
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Sen awarded Edinburgh Medal
Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University, was this week awarded the Edinburgh Medal at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. The medal is awarded annually to...
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Car dealers offered educational accessories
LOUGHBOROUGH University is the driving force behind a new degree designed exclusively for car dealers. The BSc in retail automotive management, developed in conjunction with Ford, is the world's...
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Customer pays price for rising costs
Reports by Phil Baty from the Royal Economic Society's annual conference at Staffordshire University this week. See research papers. Companies tend to raise prices when their costs go up, not when...
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New-style degrees get convert
The first signs of a consensus over abolishing traditional degree classifications may have been seen at last week's quality conference staged by Goldsmiths College. Calls for a review and possible...
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Phoenix focuses space hopes
Space scientists are expected to learn next week whether their dreams of relaunching the ill-fated Cluster mission, which came to an abrupt end last June, will come true. Nine months after the rocket...
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Bring FE into the fold, urges NUS
Students have pledged their support for Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry into the future of higher education, but want more of a voice for further education. More than 1,500 delegates at the annual...
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Tory MPs angry at Welsh funding plan
A House of Commons committee with a Conservative majority has criticised the funding of further education in Wales. The Welsh Affairs committee, in a report issued this week, said the Government...
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Graduates 'too good for the job'
MORE THAN a third of graduates in the United Kingdom are "over educated" and expansionist higher education policies should be checked, a team of economists argued this week. Peter Dolton and Anna...
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Moray rejects merger talks call
MORAY House Institute of Education has angrily rejected a call from its estranged partner, Heriot-Watt University, to be involved in talks about its future. Moray House has been an associated college...
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Lecturers withhold marks in temp war
Legislation to tackle the problem of Spain's army of temporary contract lecturers could be on the statute book by the end of the academic year. Possibilities include creating a new body of permanent...
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Soros head expelled from Minsk
The director of the Soros Foundation's office in Belarus was expelled from the country last week. According to the information bureau of the presidential administration, Peter Byrne, an American, had...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from an emigre historian: "When seeking for a partner worthy of the delectable Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm created the Duke of Dorset, an aristocratic paragon,...
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Chairs
University of Sussex The following have been promoted to professorships: Vivien Hart, reader in American studies, former librarian at Hamilton College in New York; Ladislaus Lob, reader in German,...