The THES diary
Bus ride to millions. The University of Abertay Dundee has launched a gloomy student recruitment campaign with the slogan "One of Abertay's graduates now works on the buses". Not quite so gloomy when...
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Cambridge Massachusetts
Harvard University has admitted that it misclassified many employees as temporary instead of full-time, cheating them of benefits and salary raises. The university said it will put things right,...
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Software slip adds to loan crisis
A botched database set up by the Student Loans Company will leave thousands of students strapped for cash as they start their higher education courses. The database supplied to local authorities by...
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Grade inflation reaches plateau
Nearly nine out of ten A-level exams sat this year were passed,but this week's results suggest that so-called "grade inflation" is beginning to level out, writes Alan Thomson. The numbers of A levels...
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More graduates find work
* Recent graduate unemployment fell one percentage point to 5 per cent last year, according to the First Destinations of Students Leaving Higher Education Institutions 1997-98, published this week....
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Cordwainers College plumbs the depths
* The worst possible inspection grade for quality assurance has been given to Cordwainers College, East London. Inspectors from the Further Education Funding Council found "many weaknesses" in the...
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Women lack role models in economics
* Just 4 per cent of economics professors are women, a study from the Royal Economic Society's Committee on Women in Economics has found. The study, by Alison Booth of the University of Essex, found...
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Natfhe calls for review of FE staff conditions
* Lecturers' union Natfhe is to call for a fundamental review of pay and conditions for further education staff at this year's Trades Union Congress annual conference. Natfhe's motion welcomes the...
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Unis must be judged on attracting minorities
* Success in attracting and retaining ethnic minority students and lecturers should be added to the criteria for judging universities' performance, according to Natfhe. This autumn the funding...
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Course will teach how to catch NHS frauds
* Fraud and corruption in the National Health Service is to be tackled by training 500 staff to detect, take action against and deter the illegal misappropriation of taxpayers' money intended for...
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Aggressive fund-raising key to successful v-cs
* Britain's academics need to accept that aggressive fund-raising is central to their sector's future, according to a new report. The UK Vice-Chancellor Study of University Development, by James...
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Transsexual quits nursing course
* A transsexual nursing student at Dundee University is believed to have dropped out of her course after the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland asked for her birth...
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Oxford hits back at employment snub
* Oxford University has hit back at a survey that placed it seventh in a graduate employment league table, which was topped by Cambridge. Oxford vice chancellor Colin Lucas stressed this week that...
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Creationists lie low in Darwin dispute
* Creationist groups who want to see a traditional biblical explanation for the world taught as a viable alternative to evolution have been boosted by moves in Kansas to remove Darwin from the school...
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Of course students cheat
* In last week's THES Bristol University senior physics tutor Jef Odell was quoted as saying "of course students cheat" with regard to the university's ability to police high-tech cheating in student...