Merger mystery
(Photograph) - Merger mystery: University of the West of England students Richard Neale, Sarah Desmond and Nathan Naylor perform The Mysteries at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which by next July...
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Staff face Christmas without an income
Hundreds of the lowest-paid university workers face an income-less Christmas because of confusion over a law governing term-time-only contracts. Public services union Unison has petitioned the House...
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Vice-principal appeals against dismissal
The former vice-principal of Glasgow Caledonian University, who was sacked in July on the grounds of gross misconduct, is to take his case to an employment tribunal. Vice-principal John Phillips was...
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Students take a close look at Universitas 21
Students are hoping to capitalise on a global network of 18 universities to improve services. Glasgow University's students' representative council this week hosted an inaugural meeting of 13 student...
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Fees abolition set for NI Assembly agenda
Abolition of tuition fees is likely to be high on the agenda of the new Northern Ireland Assembly executive. There is a broad consensus between the parties to abolish fees, although the former...
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Commons MP follows trend for ex-lecturers
One former university lecturer has replaced another as chairman of the influential Commons' education select committee. Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman (above), a former lecturer in political theory...
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Derby wins licence for Israel subsidiary
Derby University has been granted a temporary licence to operate a franchise in Israel, after a probation period. The Israeli Higher Education Council had withheld the licence after it discovered...
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Ofsted fails Cambridge training college
Leading teacher-training institution Homerton College, Cambridge, has failed an inspection by schools' standards watchdog, Ofsted. The inspectorate said that two out of six aspects of Homerton's...
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Undergrads in need of grammar schooling
Should lecturers be responsible for improving their students' grammar? That was one question for academics gathered at Anglia Polytechnic University last week for a key skills debate. Cordelia Bryan...
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Borders to student access
Scottish and Northern Irish institutions admit a lower proportion of access students than English, reports the Higher Education Statistics Agency. England, which took 83 per cent of all students in...
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Proud North Brum
I am writing in response to the article by Phil Baty in The THES of November 26. The procedural question regarding the appointment of senior postholders at North Birmingham College was referred to...
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Wrong side of the line
While I congratulate the founder academicians elected to the Academy for Learned Societies for Social Sciences (THES, November 19), it is disappointing and surprising to note that only one is drawn...
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Not Bloomsbury at all
The epigraph "No, not Bloomsbury" does not come from Lucky Jim ("Blooming of a square set", THES, November 26). The relevant paragraph ends "... Wapping, Chelsea. No, not Chelsea." And the hero is...
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Spelling it out
You have solved our problem of professorships acquired in old and new universities (Whistleblowers, THES, November 19). Your "new" title of professer should apply only to those in "new" universities...
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No ACCA deal
You claimed that Middlesex University "set up a deal to offer degrees in partnership with ... the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants" (Whistleblowers, THES, October 22). I would like to...