Cuts fuel campus disputes
Cuts and restructuring are causing upheaval in universities countrywide. Thes reporters look at four hotspots. UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON BAILIFFS evicted 35 students on Tuesday from buildings at the...
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Cuts fuel campus disputes
Cuts and restructuring are causing upheaval in universities countrywide. Thes reporters look at four hotspots. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY Plans to shed 60 academic posts at Cambridge University through an...
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Howler alert
This man must be stopped! If Peter Barnes of the Open University is not to run off with The THES exam howler competition yet again, he needs some more opposition. Entries by the end of the month or...
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Spain takes Dearing track
EUROPE SPANISH universities will have their own Dearing-style report by the summer of 1999. It will focus on the problems affecting the university system and recommend reforms. The initiative stems...
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Sexual bias irks union
EUROPE The Irish Federation of University Teachers has slammed the "serious gender imbalance" in the current round of promotions at University College Dublin where one female and 19 male associate...
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Split on quality blueprint
THE Quality Assurance Agency's blueprint for policing higher education standards was in tatters this week as two opposing camps tore it apart. The funding councils, keen to get quality monitored,...
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QAA's role challenged
The QAA's role in monitoring standards in subjects with statutory professional bodies was challenged by the British Medical Association this week, writes Julia Hinde. The General Medical Council has...
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Black power
(Photograph) - Fifty years after the vanguard of West Indians arrived on the troopship Empire Windrush, Britain has its first black woman professor. Lola Young, professor of cultural studies at...
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Swiss take genes to the polls
Switzerland's citizens vote this weekend on whether to severely restrict genetic engineering, potentially forcing thousands of biomedical researchers abroad and seriously harming university and...
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Watchdog snarls at UFI's use of title
QUALITY watchdog John Randall has cast doubt on the use of the term "university" in the government's flagship University for Industry project. At a lifelong learning conference last week, Mr Randall...
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Opposers in final bid to alter bill
OPPOSITION parties are staging an eleventh-hour challenge to the government as the controversial Teaching and Higher Education Bill approaches its last Commons' hurdle. Both the Conservatives and...
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MPs urge Pounds 600m benefit switch
MPs have recommended taking Pounds 600 million a-year in child benefit from parents and handing it to their teenage children to spend on further and higher education. The Education and Employment...
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Willetts hopes to befriend foes
The new Conservative frontbench education and employment team appointed by William Hague in this week's reshuffle will go straight into parliamentary action next Monday and Tuesday as the Teaching...
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Internet
OUR1998 university league tables, are now on THESIS, The THES Internet service. Go to the Statistics section to find three years of league tables and many other useful facts and figures about higher...
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Bolton seeks compromise over title fight
Bolton Institute chiefs are hoping a meeting last month with ministers will lead to a "useful compromise" over their application for a university title. Education and employment secretary David...