Attractions of a Bovis en suite
Rental income makes student housing an ideal candidate for PFI. Stephen Hoare looks at two case studies. A student accommodation block at the University of Kingston shows what can be achieved if the...
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Appointments
OXFORD CENTRE FOR HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES Richard Greenbury, chairman of Marks and Spencer, has been appointed chairman of the board of governors. Bernard Wassester, professor of history, was...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF WALES COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Readership: David Healy, senior lecturer and director of the academic sub-department of psychological medicine in Bangor, North Wales. THE OPEN UNIVERSITY Mike...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND LLD: Sheila McKechnie, director of Shelter, chief executive of the Consumers' Association. MA: Bill Frain in recognition of his contribution to the development of...
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Chairs
TERNOPIL PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE, UKRAINE An honorary professorship has been conferred on Mark Mabey, head of the corporate enterprise centre at the University of Wolverhampton. UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS...
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City of landfall and landfill
BOMBAY: THE CITIES WITHIN By Sharada Dwivedi and Rahul Mehrotra India Book House Pvt Mahalaxmi Chambers, 5th Floor, 22 Bhulabhai Desai Road, Bombay 400 026 335pp, Pounds 40.00 (p+p extra) ISBN 81...
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The University of Abertay Dundee is setting up an alumni association. It has written to 14,000 former students inviting them to join. Membership will be free to anyone with a qualification from UAD...
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A PFI marriage of convenience
Are strategic partnerships between the public and private sectors of benefit to higher education or not worth the risk, asks Fari Akhlaghi There appears to be a growing consensus among commentators...
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The new Greenwich village
John McWilliam and Paul Watson describe how PFI is helping to build student bedrooms to order. In seven months time around 650 students from the University of Greenwich will occupy new purpose-built...
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The quick modular fix
Rental income makes student housing an ideal candidate for PFI. Stephen Hoare looks at two case studies. The phenomenal rise in student numbers in higher education means Britain's universities are...
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To fit out or fit in
With space at a premium, Paul Roebuck, Peter Lyon and Frank Woods predict another university league table. It has yet to dawn on many universities and colleges of higher education that space (area to...
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Four-star chain reaction
Stephen Hoare on the United States's experience of contracting in and contracting out. Students of the University of Tampa in Florida have every reason to be contented. They eat first-class meals...
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Clean sweep, new broom
Outsourcing has become a managers' buzz word. Michael Jackson reports. The University of Westminster takes facilities management seriously. With 1.3 million square foot of buildings spread over 23...
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A working campus holiday
Summer comes in January in Middlesex when it starts planning its intensive 12-week summer vacation building maintenance, alteration and extension programme. This marks the start of the "outsourcing...
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Nourishing the brains of Britain
Courted by contractors, a Pounds 160 million business remains steadfastly in house, says Richard Taylor. The chill of change is gusting through academia. In its wake, the twin spectres of swingeing...