Pension pays, Essex profits
Universities are juggling staff to get dynamic deals. Lucy Hodges talks to two men who like a break with tradition. Bernard Ready was chief research officer in the department of chemistry at Essex...
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How to read the signposts
Mark Nye analyses the data on degree course results. Students' gender, age, mode of study, ethnicity and subject area all appear to have a influence on their class of degree. Recent figures from the...
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Bridge across the skills gap
Richard Latimer, Barry Lee, Margaret Noble and Penny Wolff describe how they devised a guide on how to develop a competence-based degree. After the age of 16 there is no coherent, credit-based,...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a book that introduced us all to the butterfly effect: "Up in the mountains, he knew, the ants changed with the season. Bees hovered and darted in a dynamical buzz....
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Tales from the Medway
Linden West talks to adult learners about the problems they face. It is a cliche that higher education has changed and will continue to do so, rapidly. Many of the changes were desirable and overdue...
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Ten months' work, two months on a P45
Aged 39, Annie Callaghan is a native French speaker employed on a part-time contract to teach French at the University of Essex. She is described as a teaching fellow and has worked this way for...
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Survival tactics
Geoffrey Talbot examines the pros and cons of opting out of occupational pension schemes. When your vice chancellor chooses to opt out into a personal pension, start worrying. Presently, managers and...
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Ranks swell in army of casually employed
Lucy Hodges takes a look at universities' reliance on part-time lecturers in a THES supplement on the changing profile of academic staff and students. During the 1990s a growing army of casual staff...
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Letters for publication in The THES
Letters for publication in The THES should arrive by Tuesday morning. Letters should be double-spaced, written on one side of the paper and as short as possible. The editor reserves the right to...
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A trip over red tape
Elaine Carlton reports on the energy expended in the assessment race. A growing mountain of paperwork and red tape is threatening to overwhelm university academics, stall research and turn top...
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Appointments
INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS On October 1, the following will take office for the 1996/97 session. President: Robert Hawley, chief executive, British Energy. Divisional Chairmen: Computing and...
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Euro-call to break traditions
Higher education funding should reward colleges and universities that promote access and support for students from non-traditional backgrounds, a Council of Europe report has proposed. It calls for a...
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All out in November
All university staff, from porters to professors, from both old and new universities, could walk out in industrial action this November. Two higher education unions have voted to ballot their members...
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Expertise shortfall
Organisations should improve their expertise in staff planning to fit in with the current climate of "downsizing" and decentralisation, according to a report released this week by the Institute for...
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Trio launch hi-tec boost
Edinburgh's three universities have joined forces in a radical scheme to stimulate the growth of local high-tech companies. The "Connect" programme, launched by Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Napier...