Bett to call for big pay boost
The Bett report will call for millions of pounds more from government to improve pay and conditions for higher education staff. Firm figures on recommended pay levels by 2002, taking into account...
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Cambridge in dock over radioactivity
Cambridge University was set to face criminal charges this week for losing a package of radioactive material. As The THES revealed in December last year, the Health and Safety Executive has been...
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Students challenge BAe over arms exports
Students demonstrated at the British Aerospace annual general meeting in London this week to protest against arms exports to repressive regimes. Members of the Campaign Against Arms Trade Student...
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Tories don't give FCUK about retailer's action
Scottish Conservatives this week laughed off the prospect of fashion retailer French Connection taking action over its Scottish election stunt of distributing 30,000 T-shirts to students which read "...
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Student debt
Rising student debt has not discouraged postgraduate enrolment, according to the figures. Overall the number of home students starting a full-time postgraduate course this academic year is up by 2...
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Strike threatened to stop redundancies
Strikes are threatened at Bournemouth University over eight threatened redundancies in law, accountancy and business. College and university lecturers' union Natfhe is to ballot for action, arguing...
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European education failing to harmonise
While European Union member states are taking steps to converge economically, their higher education systems are as diverse as ever, researchers at the Institute of Education have found. Despite...
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Institutions play their part in country's sport
Universities and colleges have become key providers of sports and cultural facilities to the wider community, according to a report published last week by the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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BNP man's speech at union is cancelled
The Oxford Union has been forced to cancel a debate on racism because of fears about security. Speakers debating "This house believes that racism is inevitable" were to have included John Tyndall,...
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Capital scheme to help educate disadvantaged
Three London universities this week launched a new initiative to open educational doors to the capital's economically excluded and ethnically under-represented population. South Bank and Greenwich...
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London college staff to be 'knowledge angels'
Staff from London universities and colleges will have the chance of becoming "knowledge angels" in a strategy to give London businesses access to the latest research. Volunteers will advise companies...
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Union fights to protect part-time lecturers
Lecturers' union Natfhe has called for an end to the abuse of agency staff. In a submission to the Department for Trade and Industry's consultation on agency regulation, Natfhe said that ministers...
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Scots renew ancient links with Russians
The first Scottish Education Mission to Russia, a Scottish Office and trade department backed marketing exercise, was in Moscow earlier this month to advertise the distinctive qualities universities...
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70-plus subjects by institution
Last week's listing of the top 70-plus subjects by institution erroneously omitted the rating of 5 for research awarded to the anthropology department at the University of Manchester. Also, because...
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Cambridge slumps
Nearly 50 Cambridge University applicants who failed to meet "minimum entry requirements" were admitted to postgraduate courses last academic year. The waivers were revealed as the university this...