For sale: a profitable academic industry
As balloting takes place in every university in a powerful display of unity against the latest pay offer, the celebrations of The THES quarter-century allowed me a peak into the past. From 1973 to...
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Are you a key FOB?
An awful lot of people are banking on a Labour government beating a path to their door for advice. An awful lot of them are going to be disappointed. Brian Brivati predicts who will be called and who...
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For richer... for poorer
Tony Atkinson demands an official United Kingdom poverty target and explains how lessons learned from the setting-up of a report to beat inflation could be relevant. In October 1992, after the pound...
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'Mass of noisy ignorance'
Yesterday the Cambridge Union was due to play host to Mitchel McLaughlin of Sinn Fein. But Ged Martin points out that it is not easy stopping students debating politically sensitive topics. Cambridge...
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Fish face
(Photograph) - A framed relief by Sauvres Hapishi, an MSc student in visual communication at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design is among 150 images from the European League of Institutes of Art (...
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Suspension of disbelief
(Photograph) - Yogic flier Bruno D'Arcy at the launch of the Oxford University branch of the Young Natural Law Party last week
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Health pay parity
Medical academics are still waiting for Lord Henley, higher education minister, to reply to the letter demanding cash to maintain the historic pay parity between them and NHS staff. His spokeswoman...
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Dawkins delivers
Controversial Oxford-based biologist Richard Dawkins is to give the 21st Richard Dimbleby lecture to be broadcast next Tuesday. He will argue that science has a cultural role that goes far beyond its...
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Jubilee appeal
Oxford University Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies has launched a Pounds 5-million appeal for its silver jubilee next year. The centre started the academic year with a new director, Bernard...
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Rise confirmed in top degrees
Some universities consistently award a higher than average proportion of first and upper second class degrees, a national study has found. Relatively high scores have been maintained over more than...
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Unions set for pay fight
THE higher education sector held its breath today for the results of eight separate trade union ballots which could force the first ever shutdown of United Kingdom universities and colleges. Early...
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Maverick Scot backs three years
A Scottish principal has called into question the four-year honours degree as the norm in higher education north of the border. Donald Leach, who retired this week after 11 years as principal of...
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Pixel partners
Department of Trade and Industry funds will help to create a "virtual centre of excellence" in digital broadcasting and multimedia technology. The project involves the National Film and Television...
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Tables showing university income
Tables showing university income in the industry supplement (THES, November 1, p32-33) were derived from data collected and published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, whose assistance...
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Two more split from pay deal
TWO MORE universities are giving staff enhanced pay awards in breach of national pay bargaining. Central Lancashire and De Montfort universities have imposed interim pay awards of 3 per cent and 2.9...