Cash cows amid bulls and bears
Business schools can earn millions - but is what they do proper research and should academics be allowed to reap huge profits from private work? Phil Baty reports. Just when the field of business...
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How Warwick gets round the problem
Cash cows amid bulls and bears Warwick University's business school insists that its commercial sponsors co-fund group research projects to avoid charges of "glorified consultancy". These "subscriber...
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Cresting controversy
Adept at riding waves, the surfing Nobel laureate Kary Mullis has now taken to making them - he claims that there is no evidence that HIV causes Aids. Ayala Ochert reports. Kary Mullis has been...
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Crass, crude and confused
Michael Rose (above), former head of the UN's peace effort in Bosnia, argues that Nato bombs did not bring the Serbs to the peace table in 1995 and are unlikely to do so now. By firing cruise...
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Higher channels
John Davies picks programmes of interest to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Good science documentaries do not just tell you what is known; they tell you how it is known....
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Derek Portwood argued that the advantages of college franchises outweigh the disadvantages Brian Styles, Principal, City of Bristol College There has been a lot of research...
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Agony aunt
Q. I have been trying unsuccessfully for five years to get a sabbatical. Is this unusual and are there any national guidelines on sabbatical leave? A. Paul Cottrell, Assistant general secretary,...
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Chip off the old block
(Photograph) - Chip off the old block: Loughborough University student Andrew Robinson with his wooden man as part of The Human Condition, an exhibition by three final-year students at the New Walk...
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Lax FE audits fuel fraud fears
A clampdown has been ordered on colleges' accounting procedures after public spending watchdogs exposed a catalogue of flaws. Ministers have threatened legislation. Reporting on a multi-million pound...
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Ministers work on post-16 funding revamp
The post-16 sector faces its most "fundamental and radical shake-up" as the government conducts a review of lifelong learning, its leaders were briefed this week, writes Phil Baty. Local government...
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HEFC to deliver verdict on Thames Valley plan
Funding chiefs were due to consider the survival "action plan" for Thames Valley University this week. The plan was demanded following a damning quality audit that found degree standards could not be...
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TTA review draws firefrom principals and v-cs
In response to the Teacher Training Agency's quinquennial review, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and Standing Conference of Principals have told ministers that the TTA's funding...
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Europe lacks parity for academic staff
Pay and conditions for academic staff still differ between European countries, despite growing globalisation, according to an initial study of research papers delivered at a European Union conference...
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T&G seeks 10 per cent for support staff
The T&G union this week put in a pay claim of 10 per cent for more than 100,000 support staff in higher education. This would mean a rise of Pounds 33 per week, taking the hourly minimum to...
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Unison puts pay offer to membership vote
Public service union Unison is to consult its 60,000 members in higher education over a 3.5 per cent pay offer for manual, clerical, technical, professional and administrative staff in universities...