Maastricht border crossing
THE FIRST transnational university merger in Europe will straddle the Dutch-Belgian border. A team of academics from both countries is recommending that Maastricht University, in the Netherlands,...
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Nazi student fined for inciting racial violence
A university doctoral student who arranged a lecture by a leading Swedish Nazi has been fined by the courts. Karolina Matti, a student at the University of Umea, was fined the equivalent of Pounds...
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Short-term scandal in our universities
When tenure was abolished in the old universities for all those appointed or promoted after 1987 it was said that the then growing habit of hiring staff on limited-term contracts would decline. After...
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Pilot confirms change needed
It is now more than nine months since Baroness Blackstone formally launched the joint University of Sunderland and Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) pilot of the University for Industry. At...
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Does your institution do anything underhand for its RAE scores?
RAE abuse alleged Does your institution do anything underhand for its RAE scores? Any examples welcome. Please contact Phil Baty on 0171 782 3298 or email him on pbaty@thes.co.uk
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Value added by league tables
FEW people in British universities are comfortable with league tables published by newspapers. As they proliferate, anxiety has sharpened over the newspapers' role in compiling such guides and their...
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...but we do need clinical academics
Alan Maynard (below) and Michael Rees (right) suggest cures for two ills of the NHS on its 50th birthday The report commissioned by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals from Sir Rex...
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We don't need more doctors...
Alan Maynard (below) and Michael Rees (right) suggest cures for two ills of the NHS on its 50th birthday Forecasting the National Health Service workforce is rather like peering into an opaque...
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Who is affected and how
THES reporters look at the spread of casualisation and its effects and the campaign against it Who are casual staff? At the heart of the unions' campaign are people employed on fixed-term contracts...
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Bird's eye view
(Photograph) - A helicopter pilot checks a map of the Solent to ensure that researchers from Southampton Institute maritime leisure management department can video boats in a survey last month to see...
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Safety 'hit by cash pressures'
Unison claims employee health and welfare increasingly at risk as resources are squeezed THE health and safety of higher education employees is a low priority in universities, Britain's biggest union...
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Face-to-face admission
UCAS applicants who list hobbies and pastimes are often revealing little more than their privileged upbringing and not how capable they are of taking responsibility ("Is an interview really necessary...
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NVQs need a debate
THE government is not paying the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority Pounds 5 million a year to draft occupational standards with industry (THES, June 19). Updating national occupational...
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Face-to-face admission
YOU report Nick Tate, QCA chief executive, as asserting that "... we have these standards (for NVQs) and there is no reason why they should not be used to build other qualifications as well". There...
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The eighties' rise of the good degree
YOUR story on grade inflation gives a misleading impression by failing to place university degree results in a wider context ("Dumbing down disproved", THES, June 26). Although the award pattern has...