ACM accepts 2.7%
The Association for College Management has accepted a 2.7 per cent rise for members along with extra holiday and the setting up of working parties with the Colleges Employers Forum on performance-...
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Contracts expand
Contracts for universities to provide three-year nursing, midwifery or other medically-related courses should be awarded for at least five years, says an agreement concluded between the National...
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Marionettiste, writer and director Rani Singh
(Photograph) - Pleased as Punch: marionettiste, writer and director Rani Singh pulled some strings at a puppetry symposium organised with Thames Valley University earlier this month. The aim of the...
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Birkbeck ballots on job title change
Hourly paid part-time lecturers at Birkbeck College's centre for extramural studies are to be balloted for industrial action following changes in their job description and non-recognition of their...
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Internet links global protest against France
Leading academics and lawyers from more than 50 universities across 40 countries have challenged the legality of France's decision to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific. The academics have...
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Student wins review
A law student who took her university to the High Court in a year-long battle against allegations of plagiarism has won a reassessment of her third-class degree. The offer came after Christine...
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Quality call for research
Cambridge and London universities are the main contributors to the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise panels announced this week. The four national funding councils released the names of 542 members...
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Streets ahead: The New College Durham summer youth production of 42nd Street
(Photograph) - Streets ahead: The New College Durham summer youth production of 42nd Street has sold out. It has been choreographed by Joanne Banks, a former performing arts student at the college,...
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British degree 'a real bargain'
British degrees are cheaper than those offered by Australian and American Ivy League universities, according to research by London University's Institute of Education, writes Simon Targett. Foreign...
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Oxbridge windfall
A large amount of the cash awarded to humanities postgraduates still goes to the "Golden Triangle" of Oxford, Cambridge and London, British Academy figures reveal. But the University of Sussex pipped...
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Shephard picks her men
Former Employment Department civil servants dominate the new-look Department for Education and Employment, taking five out of the eight top posts in the department's governing board. The only DFE...
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Whole in one
Kam Patel meets Leda Cosmides, the evolutionary psychologist at the forefront of the hunt for a universal description of human nature. An enduring childhood memory for Leda Cosmides is that of her...
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Mushrooming waste
Fifty years after Hiroshima, nuclear scientist Arjun Makhijani talks to John Davies about the legacy of nuclear weapons production. The public, at least in the United States, has a very complex...
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Too much research, not enough teaching?
Do academics like Anthony Giddens neglect their students? Brian Brivati refutes the charge. The recent article and exchange of letters in The Guardian about whether or not Anthony Giddens, professor...
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The bright blues
Are the Tories, after decades of proudly sporting their moniker as 'the stupid party', becoming intellectual? Huw Richards looks at the evidence. A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks -...