Master plan for new post-16 council is unveiled
The scale of the task facing the new Learning and Skills Council became clear this week as chief executive John Harwood unveiled his master plan. The LSC, which officially takes up the reins of the...
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Student vets join Maff on frontline
Final-year veterinary students from across the United Kingdom have joined the battle against the foot-and-mouth epidemic. So far, 136 volunteers have answered last week's call from the Ministry of...
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LSE leads revolt against QAA
The London School of Economics resolved to break free from Quality Assurance Agency scrutiny this week, leading the elite Russell Group of universities in open revolt. MPs, peers and trade unions...
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Latest international news
Italian don arrested in mafia butter scam A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the director of Naples University’s food science department for allegedly helping the Neapolitan mafia...
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Latest UK news
Report says academics are underpaid and overworked Lecturing unions have welcomed a report calling on government to address the pay disparity between academics and comparable professions and to...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Researchers at Intervet, a subsidiary of Akzo Nobel, the Dutch chemicals group, are racing to complete development of a test that could tell the difference between animals infected...
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Higher education appointments
West Dean College Bob Pulley , former dean of art and design at Falmouth College of Arts, has been appointed to the post of principal.
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Higher education prizes
Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Debbie Griggs , final year BA student in metalsmithing and jewellery at De Montfort University Leicester, was awarded first prize in the Craftmanship &...
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Laurie Taylor column
More complaints about the current rate of pay for acting as external examiners for PhDs - THES , March 16. Lapping speaking. Ah, Gordon. Charles here. Charles Daventry. Uttoxeter. Media Studies....
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Letter: Double take
Phil Baty's account of the Cambridge debate ("Gamble on PhD double or quits", THES , March 16) implies that awarding two degrees for one thesis would be an innovation. When I became a Cambridge don,...
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Letter: Chemical reaction
I am pleased to report that senior management here has agreed the necessary funding for term-three teaching in chemistry to proceed as normal, despite my earlier concerns following staff redundancies...
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Letter: No right to appeal
Strictly speaking, Pauline Foley never had a right of appeal to the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University (Whistleblowers, THES , March 16). The authority to make the final determination had been...
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Letter: Harder work in schools
I was intrigued to note that "hours worked by university teachers were well in excess of those worked by schoolteachers" ("Scots HE staffing hit by hike in teachers' pay", THES , March 16). As a...
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Letter: Why not Wisconsin? (1)
I was a member of the team that visited Wisconsin with Sir Howard Newby and Roger Brown. Our agreed report was somewhat less euphoric than your article suggests (Analysis, THES , March 16). While the...
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Letter: Why not Wisconsin? (2)
Times are difficult at the University of East London ("Cuts loom amid UEL shortfall", THES , March 16), as they are at South Bank and four other universities outside London. All have financial...