Natfhe builds strike fund
Lecturers' union Natfhe is setting up a national strike fund levy, reflecting a growing mood of militancy among members faced with job cuts. It is also considering a merger with another education...
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University chiefs fear quality cost
Chiefs of universities and colleges are worried about the cost and practicalities of a unified quality regime, it emerged this week. Responses to the first report of the joint planning group, which...
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Well, that's Rich!
Alumnus to be proud of no. 52 has to be this week's unluckiest politician, his career possibly finished by allegations that he has merely been doing to a named individual what his government has been...
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Equipment goes down the tubes...
Kam Patel reports on a survey that reveals many research laboratories are limping along with decrepit equipment. Centrifuges, fermenters, scintillation counters, computers and spectrophotometers -...
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Police and archaeologists join forces in forensic class
Police officers and archaeologists will be classmates on a new postgraduate course at Bourne- mouth University. The school of conservation sciences is launching a course in forensic archaeology to...
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Swedes switch rules
Sweden is to recentralise university and college admissions despite protests by Sweden's university and college rectors. Social Democrat education minister Carl Tham won parliamentary approval last...
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The right to say right things
What a strange letter from Simon Batterbury about his colleague, David Marsland. Why does he assume that readers are unable to distinguish between the views of an individual and the university for...
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Missed Ms
Before writing "The first woman president of the American Economic Association is now in office" on McCloskey's review of Women of Value (THES, May 31) you should have checked your facts. You owe an...
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Internet News
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
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Grant cuts threaten arts income
As a lass living in Yorkshire, Dame Diana Rigg had no problems getting a discretionary award from her local council to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Now she might not be so fortunate....
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Bar is keen on more training
The Bar Council was bracing itself for a heated debate this weekend over plans to make law graduates complete six months training in chambers before becoming barristers. The proposal, due to be...
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Out-of-date kit forces big firms to turn to foreign players
Clapped-out laboratory equipment in institutions is forcing multinational firms based in the UK to shift their university research to other countries, according to a report published yesterday. The...
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Odds are on millions watching Euro 96
England will win the European Football Championships. And the final will be watched by an audience of around 500 million people, writes Huw Richards. The odds are that the second of those statements...
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Africa seeks research genie
Top African academics are hoping to raise cash for a research university for the continent in order to cut the brain drain and reliance on foreign staff, as well as providing a safe haven for...
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Exam conspiracies
There is nothing like a test to concentrate the mind, but what if you never fail? Alex Millmow looks at Australian policy Examinations. The very word arouses fear and rank uncertainty. The fear is...