Firewalking feat
(Photograph) - Southampton University students have been exercising mind over matter to walk on burning coals. Former Southampton lecturer Robin Allen returned to the university to lecture students...
Search
-
-
Akker retired 'by the book'
Natfhe has publicly defended its role in the events which led to general secretary John Akker's sudden suspension and subsequent early retirement. Jean Cooke, chairwoman of Natfhe's national...
-
GCU stands by Murray decision
THE CHAIRMAN of court at the troubled Glasgow Caledonian University has turned down a plea to investigate the removal of Douglas Murray, head of computer studies, from his post. The THES has obtained...
-
Stubbs gets top job at QCA
London Institute rector Sir William Stubbs has been appointed chairman of the new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Vice chair will be Dominic Cadbury, chairman of the Confederation for...
-
Lecturers back illegal action
Natfhe conference has committed itself to defending illegal industrial action, a move that could lead to union funds being seized. Delegates at lecturers' union Natfhe's annual conference in...
-
Universities don't 'know what they're for' any more
Universities face a "knowledge crisis" and no longer know "what they are for", a study published this week will argue. Ron Barnett, professor of higher education at the Institute of Education and one...
-
Students sue for damages
Two students are set to challenge job losses and restructuring at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the high court. Helen Vincent and Heather Mitchell, second-year students at the Institute of...
-
University of Luton investigating actions of its former auditors
The University of Luton is investigating the actions of its former auditors, Ernst & Young, after discovering a hole in its finances of more than Pounds 1 million. Vice chancellor Tony Wood...
-
Text book dilemma for SSEES
A funding council "anomaly" has forced an across-the-board early retirement programme at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, its director said this week. SSEES lost Pounds 250,000 in...
-
University of Nottingham and AUT issue a joint statement over job losses
The University of Nottingham and the AUT have taken the unusual step of issuing a joint statement over job losses. They have reassured staff that none will face compulsory redundancy over research...
-
Slings and arrows
Natfhe's 1997 conference must go down as one of the oddest in living memory - which, given the wealth of collective experience, is a very long time. In what were almost surreal circumstances, the...
-
A new slant
Just as Dundee University's two student newspapers are considering a merger, archives assistant Michael Bolik has unearthed a student magazine from 1922 which reveals one contributor violently...
-
Post haste
Like Madam Speaker and the staff of Hansard, we are having trouble working out who the new MPs are. A missive from the University of Warwick chides us for omitting it from our list of universities...
-
Widdershins
In the interests of political and gender balance, the alumnus to be proud of No. 108 is a Tory alumna, best known for her role in the far-from-accidental demise of a would-be prime minister. Michael...
-
Contest goes from bad to worst
A Professor of comparative literature at Duke University in the United States is the winner of the third Bad Writing Contest, sponsored by the journal Philosophy and Literature and its Internet...