Ulster FE in contract battle
Further education colleges in Northern Ireland have been warned they could lose 2 per cent of their budgets if they fail to get lecturers to sign new flexible contracts. The threat comes in a letter...
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Wessex family gets together
Southampton is considering forming a regional university with its four accredited colleges based on the multi-campus model common in the United States. The project, already being referred to as the...
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Scots lack self-criticism
Scotland's higher education institutions are failing to be sufficiently self-critical when assessing their teaching quality, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has warned. In its second...
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Highlands goes hi-tech
The new chairman of the University for the Highlands and Islands academic council believes high-tech links between all the colleges in the project could be in place by the end of this year. Mick...
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Alumni urged to build on goodwill
More than three-quarters of international students are so positive about their experiences of British undergraduate life that they would recommend their institution to family and friends - but a...
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Anger over student's forced exit
The forcible return of a student union president to his native Zimbabwe has triggered a storm of protest from his university, student union, member of parliament and the National Union of Students....
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Science teaching `heading for disaster'
The Association of University Teachers warns of "absolute disaster" for key areas of science in universities because of recruitment difficulties associated with growing numbers of senior scientists...
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Super model
(Photograph) - Super model: The first phase of the new University College of Lincolnshire campus is to be built on the derelict 15-hectare site which the Royal Fine Arts Commission called "the...
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Up the creek over River development
Kingston University has blamed a Pounds 1,000 overspend on its central administration offices on "informal advice from a quantity surveyor" and inadequate internal management. River House, which...
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Employers go back on the milk round
Employers are returning to the milk round as demand for graduates is expected to increase by 10 per cent this year, according to a new report from Incomes Data Services. A survey of more than 100...
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Cataract lab pioneers human touch
A laboratory to house world-leading, non-animal research into cataracts opens today at the University of East Anglia. The Pounds 170,000 lab is funded by the Humane Research Trust, which supports...
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Plugged in
Further academic soaps nominated by Mark Griffiths of Plymouth University include Only Fools and Courses, Tears Before B.Ed Time, Did You B.Sc, Low Grant and that well-known university-based crime...
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On the ball
Never let it be said that The THES has no influence. No sooner had we reported that the Nigerian university system was expected to close for the duration of this year's Junior World Cup than FIFA...
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Power plant
An extremely warm hello to the author of the new Staff and Educational Developmental Association paper Education for the Environment, Malcolm Plant.
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Naked fear
Amid fears that protests about student poverty had taken a dramatic turn, Dundee University administrators raced to investigate reports that a naked woman was chained to a campus fence. But the...