UK University Research poster
The UK University Research poster published in the July 17 issue of The THES should have stated the research income for De Montfort University as Pounds 4.487 million, Derby as Pounds 1.090 million...
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Medicine under fire at St Andrews
St Andrews University is insisting that the quality of its medical graduates is not in doubt in the wake of allegations of low standards, student cheating and disruptive behaviour. A leaked memo from...
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Lawyers warn of huge claims
Lawyers have warned that new laws passed this month have raised the prospect of "very substantial" awards to victimised whistleblowers, writes Tony Tysome. Agreement has yet to be reached by the...
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Shipshape: Interactive performers Reckless Sleepers
(Photograph) - Shipshape: Interactive performers Reckless Sleepers appeared at Nottingham Trent University's annual 'Celebration Nottingham' arts festival last week. The festival is a showcase for...
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Rebuked whistleblower quits
A whistleblower who uncovered irregular student record-keeping at South Thames College has resigned after being reprimanded for appealing to the college's external awarding body. Karen O'Shea, a...
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Work training fillip
THE first batch of inspection reports of government-funded workplace training by the new Training Standards Council has given a clean bill of health. More than 90 per cent of the first 14 programmes...
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Skills advantage
KEY skills are becoming a major element in the selection process for job applications, according to a study for the government by the Institute of Employment Studies. Employers, the study found, have...
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Exit stage left
More dramas for those hapless thesps at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent. Student union president Stuart Campbell, who played a starring role in demonstrations against the sacking of...
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One-way Woody
Nothing can stand in the way of schools inspector Chris Woodhead when he's got a policy line to peddle - least of all empirical evidence, it seems. Fresh from the row over his interesting...
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Pencil pushers
Higher education is in the vanguard of developments in information technology. But are the heads of institutions up to speed? In a submission to the consultative steering group on the Scottish...
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Alas Smith and Jones
Amid fears that students from elsewhere in the United Kingdom will be deterred from studying in Scotland by the absence of a fourth-year fee waiver, there seems to be evidence that at staff level,...
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Should it all add up?
While having fun as usual recently, glancing over Internet catalogues of mathematics textbooks, Antithesis could not help noticing a fine set of web pages relating to a book called Inconsistent...
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One suit fits all PhDs
A new and exciting way for the heavily educated to make money has been suggested by readers of R&D Magazine, a US publication that recently featured an ad for a microbiologist. After detailing...
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True-blue axeman
Alumnus to be Proud Of this week, No 182 in the series, is Conservative Party deputy chairman, MP and former Asda boss Archie Norman. He became famous for 15 minutes this week by proposing some very...
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How much has the landscape changed?
A year after Dearing's landmark report, THES reporters gauge the progress made, while committee members and other academics give their verdicts Lord Dearing did as he was asked and thought "the...