Admin bumps up workload
LECTURERS have less time for their students because of significant increases in administrative workloads, according to a survey of new universities and higher education colleges. About 400 out of the...
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Further education colleges need Pounds 48 million says Natfhe
* Further education colleges need Pounds 48 million from the government just to fund this year's pay rise, says Natfhe. A union survey shows that unless the money is made available only a quarter of...
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Hail, Mary
If she is unsuccessful in next Thursday's Irish presidential election, a warm welcome back for Mary McAleese is assured at Queen's University, Belfast, where her day job as a law academic is based....
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Story time
The University of the Highlands and Islands may not be such an original scheme after all. David Warner, pro vice chancellor of the University of Central England, points out that Inverness University...
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Picture posted
Latest news on the photographic career of Ted Nield, ex CVCP PR person and now at the Geological Society of London. Having put his holiday snaps on the GS magazine Geoscientist twice in a row, he has...
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Hair, heir
Things are almost as much fun at the University of Armageddon (The THES October 10), the imaginary university where managers can let their hair down confidentially. Which institution can possibly...
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Speaker cornered
Science Minister John Battle used the opportunity provided by the Royal Institution's launch of its Christmas lecture programme this week, to extol the virtues of science, engineering and technology...
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Window box bloomer
No doubt Princess Anne relishes a bit of variety in days spent pulling very small curtains across walls and smashing bottles against boats. So she must have been thrilled to unveil her very first "...
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Tunnel vision
Alumni to be proud of this week, N142 and 143, are a lawyer and an engineer at the sticky end of the Romany shift to the UK. Im-migration minister Mike O'Brien is a former academic, a graduate of...
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Pay review queried
UNIVERSITIES' new pay bargaining chief Peter Humphreys has called on the government to come clean on whether it supports or rejects Dearing's recommended pay review committee. Mr Humphreys, who took...
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Five prepare for Natfhe ballot
FIVE candidates will contest the election for general secretary of the lecturers' union Natfhe, writes Alan Thomson. The five will fight a five-week campaign for the post which has remained vacant...
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Fry quip stokes a drugs fire
DUNDEE University was quick to play down reports this week of a row over alleged pro-drugs remarks made by its student-elected rector, the writer and actor Stephen Fry. There was press speculation...
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Deficit day looms for universities
MORE than half of the universities and higher education colleges in England will be in deficit within two years, latest funding council figures show. By the 1999/2000 academic year, the sector...
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Seamless study for Staffs locals
STAFFORDSHIRE University is close to completing a unique project that will provide seamless education from basic skills to degrees. The university's Pounds 3.2 million campus is part of a joint...
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Views from the podium
LECTURERS are too scared of losing their jobs to be openly critical of new teaching methods but some at a traditional university in thenorth of England agreed to air their views anonymously. "In...