'Silver' staff face sack
LECTURERS have accused a cash-strapped Midlands college of holding a gun to their heads in a battle over contracts. Twenty-one staff at Bournville College of Further Education have until April 11 to...
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Union chiefs' pay modest
Higher and further education union leaders' salaries remain modest compared with vice chancellors and funding council executives, according to a recent study. The figures are from the annual report...
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Detector sheds light on breast cancer
THES reporters review the best of the papers from the Institute of Physics annual congress in Leeds SAFER techniques for detecting breast cancer without using X-rays could go on trial as early as...
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Slogan machine
Scottish higher education naturally takes careful note of every word uttered by John Sizer, chief executive of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. But what he says may soon affect the...
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Good old days
The unhappiness we report at the University of Nottingham is not universal. Some long-serving academic staff in less than top-rated departments are known to the university managers as "the smilers"....
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Computer brain gets colour mix
THES reporters review the best of the papers from the Institute of Physics annual congress in Leeds PAINT manufacturers are hoping a computer model of how the brain perceives colour could help them...
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Digital care
The country's first gene jury, run by the Wellcome Trust, experienced a few teething problems after a member of the audience suggested the computer system was not working. He wanted to know why,...
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Now you see it
We cannot let March end without pillorying the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council for this month's page of its 1997 calendar, which commemorates William Herschel's discovery of the...
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A glow in his eyes
New Labour, new NUS. Blairite phrases filled the air at this week's meeting of the National Union of Students in Blackpool, where almost all talk was of unity, reform - and victory. Rowdy elements...
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Star burst
Alumnus to be proud of No: 95 has contrived to be implicated in the creation of a new black hole without any qualification in either cosmology or astronomy. Kyriacos Papouis is currently suspended...
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Cambridge offends top-flight dons
Cambridge University contravened its mission statement by denying its staff "long-overdue" promotion opportunities after spending Pounds 1.2 million drafting in new recruits to boost its research...
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Cuts to hit business
Sir Gordon Beveridge, vice chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, has warned business leaders that Government funding cuts could severely hamper Northern Ireland's economic development and lead to...
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Election threat to Scottish funds
Scottish higher education will face disaster next year if the next Government implements proposed cuts of more than 5 per cent, the Association of University Teachers Scotland has warned. Provisional...
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Quick fit dance fix
Dance students at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance are leaping ahead of rivals in London by applying the latest techniques of sports science to the dance studio. Injury prevention is a...
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Engineers to toughen entry
THE Engineering Council may propose a tiering of the Chartered Engineer qualification in an effort to dampen fierce criticisms of its plans to reform engineering education and training. According to...