Frosty the student
A snowman is due to enrol as a student at the Berlin Polytechnic College. The sculpture, Yesterday's Snow , was created by artist Joerg Jozwiak. The classic three-ball snowman sports a red hat and...
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Don's diary: Military manoeuvres with US marines
Tuesday Amajuba: Zulu for "the mount of doves". An hour of making steady progress uphill, but the steepest section looms ahead. Below is the road to Laing's Nek, marking the positions from which the...
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Why I think universities should prepare for the greater rights of disabled students
Recent legislation has targeted universities in an attempt to tackle possible discrimination against disabled people. Since last September, after the Disability Discrimination Act was significantly...
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Liberate the labs
The UKresearch establishment hobbles its scientists. We must set them free, says Stuart Lyons Britain's science is in a poor state. This is not because our scientists lack talent - they are among the...
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Colleges need a guiding hand
Peer evaluation can raise quality in colleges and build trust in foundation degrees, David Robertson says The expansion of higher education is to be achieved largely in colleges, with incentives...
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How bricks can build confidence
Gwen van der Velden describes how an unusual summer school is helping students who are failing. Mention exams and most students get the jitters. After all, that's when they have to prove their...
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Industry hits out at diluted degree trend
Employers have become so concerned that the widening participation agenda has "watered-down" degrees that one major company is considering recruiting talented school-leavers rather than graduates....
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Accept more money while our staff are underpaid? Never, said v-cs
Vice-chancellors had asked for cuts in their pay rises because they feared angering their underpaid staff, The THES can reveal. In private interviews with economics researchers, several vice-...
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In the news: John McKenzie
The former rector of the London Institute, economist John McKenzie, is the new chairman of Leeds United, the Premier League football club with an £80 million deficit. As well as tackling financial...
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Appointments
David Rhind , vice-chancellor and principal of City University, has been appointed chairman of the Statistics Commission. He has been a member of the commission since its inception in 2000 and will...
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DFES rethinks regulator role
A hasty rethink of the access regulator's role is under way after the government's initial proposals were criticised by senior figures in higher education, including vice-chancellors, college heads...
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'Mismanagement is holding back science'
British science is being held back by deep-rooted mismanagement within the government and its research councils, according to a report published today. The report, commissioned by the centre-right...
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UCL picks Grant as its provost
Malcolm Grant was this week appointed provost of University College London, writes Alison Goddard. Professor Grant, who is pro vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, will take up the post on...
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Minister: all to retain research
All universities will have a three-strand mission of teaching, research and knowledge transfer, science minister Lord Sainsbury said this week, writes Caroline Davis. The higher education white paper...
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Lab nets cash for accelerator scheme
Staff at the once beleaguered Daresbury laboratory are celebrating another milestone in securing funding towards a £120 million project that will put the lab at the cutting edge of accelerator...