Governors need guidance on liability
A report to the Neill committee on standards in public life has said that a further education funding council guide for governors could "mislead". The report on the findings of a study on personal...
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Teachers 'need training on use of museums'
The Museums and Galleries Commission wants local education authorities to provide local museums special funding packages to meet the cost of their services to schools and colleges. It also called for...
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Scots reward teaching excellence
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is giving about Pounds 750,000 extra to subjects rated excellent for teaching. Glasgow University gets Pounds 185,000 for European languages, psychology...
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In the picture: Sharon Sansom of Sheffield and Morag McDonald of Newquay
(Photograph) - In the picture: Sharon Sansom of Sheffield and Morag McDonald of Newquay were among 50 state school teachers visiting Oxford this week as part of the university's campaign to attract...
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Flaws, tables and chairs
Having only one female professor, my university may have been overlooked for your female professorial league table for 1996-97. It would be pleasant, however, to have had my existence acknowledged,...
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Flaws, tables and chairs
No wonder women academics such as Anne Boddington have such difficulty with promotion ("going for promotion was 'like playing poker with loaded dice'"). Poker is a card game. David C Nicoll Regent...
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UEL could be plunged into fresh financial crisis
NEW cash crises could hit the University of East London next year because it is "seriously adrift" from target levels of recruitment, an independent consultant has warned, writes Harriet Swain....
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Agency staff stay at UCE despite union flak
AGENCY staff will continue to be employed as lecturers at the University of Central England, in spite of criticism from teaching unions. The university plans to use Education Lecturing Services for...
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Contract row hits Leeds tie-up
Will terms and conditions be eroded as FE and HE institutions merge? The THES looks at the flashpoints A STAND-OFF over staff contracts is expected to blight the merger between Leeds Metropolitan...
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College in title clash
Southampton University has clashed with King Alfred's College in Winchester over its use of the title "university college". The university, to which the college is accredited, has criticised it for...
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York head falls foul of governors
The principal of University College of Ripon and York St John is to leave suddenly after governors froze his plans to restructure. A governors' meeting this week confirmed that he would leave next...
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Wrong proportion
Smokescreens generated to befuddle the opposition over the Scottish tuition fees anomaly have claimed their first victim - Tony Blair. In fact, the PM was seriously disorientated when he told MPs...
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Early warning
Historian Conrad Russell had some advice for Blair as the House of Lords prepared to defy the government a second time on the issue of Scottish tuition fees. Margaret Thatcher, said Earl Russell,...
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Watchdog or poodle?
Education secretary David Blunkett may be blind but his insight is certainly undimmed. This much was clear when he cut Margaret Hodge short during Tuesday's education and employment committee hearing...
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Dundomin'?
Critics of dome secretary Peter Mandelson's handling of the Greenwich project will be praying Tony Blair's threatened reshuffle really does mean Mandy getting booted upstairs to take over as culture...