Over here, overworked, overlooked
The West devotes vast amounts of money and effort to keeping immigrants out. Sheer stupidity, argues Nigel Harris, because this developed and ageing world depends on an influx of energetic young...
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She who sups with the media...
Margaret O'Brien (left), whose research the BBC used to argue that the children of working mothers suffered educationally, advises academics to be wary when dealing with the media. Last week, to my...
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When a kindness becomes a betrayal
Orthodox Jews have pleaded with Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks not to attend a memorial service for the liberal rabbi Hugo Gryn. Most non-Jews are mystified if not appalled at such an apparent lack of...
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Return of the old school ties
More young people than ever before are going on to university amid accusations that schools are failing to supply students of the required calibre. Has academe lost touch with what is being taught in...
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Notts prods 'poor' staff to early exit
All academic staff at Nottingham University have been asked to produce a two-year research plan to determine whether they would be better off sticking to teaching. The university meanwhile intends to...
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Engineer's epistles
An important collection of long-lost papers and drawings by Isambard Kingdom Brunel were unveiled by Bristol University this week. The university paid around Pounds 100,000 at Christie's for the...
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Forsyth saves archive
Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth has vetoed a decision to close a major part of the Scottish Record Office after academics warned that research would be hit by the closure of West Register House.
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Welsh RAE losers
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has decided departments in Welsh institutions awarded a rating of 1 or 2 in the latest research assessment exercise will receive no RAE-based funding.
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Anti-corruption move
New measures to curb corruption in publicly funded institutions such as universities were expected to be announced this week. Roger Freeman, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was due to announce...
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Officer class
King's College London is to be one of the main providers of higher education for officers in the British armed forces. The college's department of war studies will educate officers attending the new...
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Intelligence test
Coming next term to the Institute of Historical Research's 20th Century British History seminar, a session listed as "Debate on Limits of Intelligence Disclosure (Participants to be announced)" - or...
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Police eye Swansea
The South Wales Police Fraud Squad is considering a full investigation into mismanagement at Swansea Institute of Higher Education following last week's damning National Audit Office report on its...
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Mature student leads biggest university
A WOMAN who entered academia as a mature student has been appointed head of Britain's largest university. Alexandra Burslem, deputy vice chancellor and academic director of Manchester Metropolitan...
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Review of health unit after head departs
Nottingham University is reviewing its relationship with "associate" staff in the health service management centre after the sudden departure of the unit's head, Eric Caines. Associates used by...
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More v-cs get six appeal
The six-figure vice chancellor is close to becoming the norm as pay for heads of institutions continues to rise. This year's THES pay survey, the third, shows that 61 heads of institutions -...