Drop-out forced to pay fees
Students who withdraw from one university and transfer to another could be liable to pay double tuition fees because of a legislative anomaly. Daniel Rees, 19, a former Bath Spa University College...
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Scots pick team to probe fees and grants
The people who will help decide the fate of tuition fees in Scotland are to be approved today by the Scottish Parliament. Henry McLeish, Scottish Parliament minister for enterprise and lifelong...
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Contract staff hopes lifted
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has pledged a speedy investigation into improving conditions for contract researchers. Mr McLeish, speaking at an Association...
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Query over whether colleges have the cash to get down to business
The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee has flagged up further education as a key priority, writes Olga Wojtas. Convenor and Scottish National Party MSP John Swinney has...
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Unions fear shift to local pay deal
A senior management negotiator for Scotland's new universities has defended proposals to cut academics' holidays by 20 days in their draft staff contracts. The "Partnership 2000" proposals have drawn...
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Constitution think-tank
The Economic and Social Research Council is funding a Pounds 5 million research programme on devolution and constitutional change, its outgoing chief executive Ron Amann has revealed. Professor Amann...
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On the move
Howard Thomas, dean of the commerce of business administration at the Urbana-Champaign campus, University of Illinois, has been appointed dean of the business school at the University of Warwick from...
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Glittering prizes
Bert Sakmann, director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, has been awarded the honorary degree of DSc (medicine) by the University of London at the first joint...
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Don's diary
Monday Ten emails, two cups of coffeee. Organising a conference that brings together the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), the Henry James Society (US) and the Ford Madox Ford Society was never going to be...
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The THES Diary
Slow on the march They don't make Scottish students like they used to. Forty-five this week marched from Glasgow to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in a tuition fees and grants protest. They...
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Eye witness
Psycho-linguistic expert Valery Belyanin has spent the past three years developing a sophisticated computer program that allows the user to delve behind the surface meaning of texts to discover the...
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World watch
Some 759 Macao middle-school students have taken entrance exams for places at 71 universities and higher education colleges on the Chinese mainland.
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Faculty watches bottom line
A small college near Boston has turned into a national model for a new way of setting faculty salaries in the United States: profit- sharing. A salary formula for faculty at Wheaton College, hammered...
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Readers' reactions
Recently in The THES... Is this art? we asked about The Degree Show, an installation by 14 Leeds students that essentially comprised work by long-established artists David Rodway Lecturer in art and...
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Life stirring on the campus
Among an apparently feckless US student population, Harvey J. Kaye sees signs of a social consience One of television's most popular new series, Felicity, presents the trials and tribulations of a...