Crossing the great divides
Cath Cotton talks to academics about breaking down barriers in the brave world of interdisciplinarity MOVES to break through traditional boundaries between disciplines can be threatening to some...
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Could these nightmares ever happen to you?
University of Armageddon Over-enthusiastic recruitment has swollen Armageddon's new intake. Administrative strategy last year was directed at slimming the salary bill to release funds for new...
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Factfile
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 70.6 per cent of academic staff in Wales are male * 69.8 per cent of academic staff in Scotland are male * 67.7 per cent...
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Headbangs and reality
OH DEAR, only in "the lower reaches of humanities and social sciences" would an argument that does not appeal to reason appeal. So says Ray Monk in his review of The Last Word by Thomas Nagel (THES,...
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Loan fund for research
THE disappearance of hundreds of university research posts (THES, October 3) that would inevitably follow an unfunded increase in the overhead on research council grants, underlines the need for care...
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Years of not being dead
CAN anyone tell me why the United Kingdom pay scales for research assistants are determined by age? Salary levels could be more fairly determined by length of relevant experience. Beyond the age of...
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Women locked in timewarp
SHABBIR Akhtar ("Ex-defender of the faith", THES, August 22) comes close to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. His article reads like one recanting, and one is left confused, wondering what...
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Tories need a vision to stay on Earth
ASTHEY gathered in Blackpool this week, the Tories resembled nothing so much as Mir - an ageing, crumbling listed building in outer space without a working guidance system, from which bits...
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New life for Asian culture
AS A young student, I enjoyed courses that introduced me to ancient civilisations, but I never expected these civilisations to return to centre stage in my lifetime. We all paid our respects to...
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Don's diary
Sunday Off to Stockholm for a conference on human rights in psychiatry. On the plane there is an extremely large man in front of me. His idea of reclining his seat is to push back with all his weight...
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FE revolution for universities
UNIVERSITIES should model themselves on further education colleges as they prepare for the lifelong learning revolution, Bob Fryer, chairman of the Government's National Advisory Group for the...
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Broke colleges resort to courts
THE Further Education Funding Council is facing a legal challenge over "unfair" budgets which have been slashed at some colleges by up to 20 per cent over the last year. Bilston College in the West...
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Top-up fees law set for Euro row
THE government may fall foul of European law if it legislates to prevent British universities charging top-up fees, it was claimed this week. Liberal Democrat education spokesmen have warned that...
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Student housing benefit claims rejected
CITY council officers have refused to meet thousands of pounds-worth of housing benefit claims from Oxford Brookes university students. The students now have six weeks in which to bring a test case...
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Industry rejects Dearing Pounds 500m funding plea
The UK pharmaceutical and chemical industries have given a "resounding no" to a revolving loan fund suggested by Dearing to help plug the Pounds 500 million university infrastructure funding gap. A...