Accountants threaten boycott of ICA exam
One of the top five accountancy firms has threatened to find its own training arrangements if the Institute of Chartered Accountants does not reconsider its "one-size-fits-all" qualification, writes...
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Scottish battle on fees front
Student finance is up for review. Olga Wojtas looks at divisions in Scots ranks over whether abolishing fees helps access and whether it will hit spending Last Wednesday, Scotland's 14-member...
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The missing examiners
Is it acceptable that external examiners' meetings go ahead when the external examiners have not turned up? This seems to be a valid practice at some universities, including the University of...
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Promotion hopes dashed
Campaigning Cambridge lecturer Gill Evans has not been put forward for promotion this year despite the fact she was deemed good enough to be nominated last year, has published four more books...
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Missing out on 'the experience'
In the second of our student soundings on university life, undergraduates talk about the pressures of juggling paid work with study, and finding time and the money for a social life. Jennifer Currie...
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Young learn life with luvvies
Thirty thousand free tickets distributed via the internet will help introduce a new, younger-generation audience to live music and theatre. Chris Smith, secretary of state for culture, media and...
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Abertay wins Pounds 500,000 to play games
A grant of more than Pounds 500,000 has brought the University of Abertay Dundee a step closer to setting up a centre of excellence for computer games technology. The Pounds 530,000 grant comes from...
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Reviews in brief
HYPERWARS: 11 Strategies for Survival and Profit in the Era of On-line Business. By Bruce Judson, with Kate Kelly. HarperCollins Business, 240pp Pounds 14.99 - ISBN 0 00 257094 7 Bruce Judson was one...
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Access keys to future
Five institutions that put a premium on widening access to learning shared awards from British Telecom worth more than Pounds 400,000 this week. Lord Dearing, chairman of the University for Industry...
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Don's diary
Monday Last week patients consulting doctors in bizarre or unusual circumstances was a theme of one of the courses I teach. One GP taking part in the "reflective practice" session wrote about...
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The THES Diary
Red-faced baroness Statistics have a way of tripping up their users just when it appears they are being most helpful. Higher education minister Tessa Blackstone caused confusion in the House of Lords...
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In the news
Expect a lot of noise from the new European commissioner in charge of education policy, Viviane Reding from Luxembourg, but nothing radical by way of policy change. A former columnist on the leading...
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On the move
Richard Jarvis, chancellor of the University and Community College System of Nevada, has been appointed the first chancellor of the United States Open University, launched in 1998 as a sister...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Essex has awarded honorary degrees to: Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Ireland; psychologist Alan Baddeley; journalist Polly...
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Eye Witness
It is a year since King Hassan II of Morocco decided to appoint exiled socialist opposition leader Abderrahame Youssoufi as prime minister. Youssoufi's first act on return from France was to form a...