Pay the local way
Tom Wilson of Natfhe tells us that local pay determination would be expensive, wasteful and wrong (Letters, THES, September 24). It seems useful to bear in mind that most firms and organisations in...
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Pay the local way
According to David Mee, personnel director at the University of Central England (Letters, THES, September 24) the Bett committee should have listened to P. C. Knight and recommended the abolition of...
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Smart cards smooth path to college
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Further education students are to be offered smart cards to store personal information, monitor college attendance and...
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The confusion over whether teaching itself should count towards the RAE
The subject panels judging university research have made proposals on assessment, but they are still unsure about how to assess research on teaching their subjects. Until now research into the...
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Wicks way on lifelong brief
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Malcolm Wicks could not have put it better. Just hours after Tony Blair's love-it-or-loathe-it speech, the newest...
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University safety record panned
Environmental watchdogs have criticised universities' "arrogance" about health and safety. The warning came as Cambridge University pleaded guilty to three criminal charges of losing a package of...
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Welcome aboard
(Photograph) - Students started work this week at Greenwich University's new Pounds 20 million campus, on the site of the old Royal Naval College. Teaching is based in Queen Anne Court, built by Sir...
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QAA to impose externals code
Uniform rules designed to end "wide variations" in the roles, responsibilities and powers of universities' external examiners are to be imposed by 2001 amid concerns that some universities are using...
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Snout placement
(Photograph) - Sophie Clapp, a social anthropology student at St Andrews University, spends her final days of summer holiday at the Sorley Tunnel adventure farm in Loddiswell, Devon, where she has...
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Job prospects are key to extra funds
Universities must demonstrate a good employment record for past students if they want to attract cash for more undergraduates. Funding chiefs are paying more attention to student employability in...
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Fee debtors tempted to pay
Students who have unpaid tuition fee debts from last year are either coughing up or just not trying to enrol for their second year. Press coverage coupled with warning letters have encouraged...
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Warwick offers Pounds 2,000
The University of Warwick is to offer scholarships following concern that the abolition of maintenance grants has deterred students from poorer backgrounds. Scholarships would aid the university to...
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Hull spy takes a year's break
Robin Pearson, the Hull University lecturer who spied for the East Germans for 12 years, has not shown up for the start of the new academic term. A university spokesman said that Dr Pearson was on...
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There are such things as societies
Professional societies are under threat from new technology. But, Harriet Swain says, they could turn a threat into an advantage In their early days, learned and professional societies could...
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In the news
Along with the rather dull recreations of music, running and reading he lists in Who's Who, Trevor Phillips includes "mischief". It is not a hobby automatically associated with the Blairite,...