Lecturer wins case
Robert Gordon University was this week ordered to reinstate senior lecturer Sheena Falconer and pay her Pounds 41,000 in back pay after failing to prove that she was truly redundant when it made her...
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Gut reaction
Following the news that physicists at Cern are to search for the Higgs boson, a theory proposed by Peter Higgs, professor of theoretical physics at Edinburgh, Scottish Television launched a vox pop...
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Branch line
Antithesis would be the last to make fun of the International Electronics Reliability Institute's forthcoming seminar at the University of Loughborough merely on the grounds that the main speaker,...
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Resurrection
(Photograph) - Resurrection: Peter Nardini, architect and senior lecturer in building design at South Bank University, displays the design of the Great Cross of Dresden's baroque Frauenkirche. The...
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Arts core
A new "core skills" qualification for sixth-formers completing academic and vocational courses was this week launched by the Royal Society of Arts. The Diploma of Achievement, which is to be...
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Oxford probe
The framework of the Commission of Inquiry into the future of the University of Oxford was published this week. The commission will look at governance, the future of the colleges and resources, the...
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Special needs net spreads
Facilities designed for students with special needs are having a wider impact than envisaged, a survey has found. The report, Access to Higher Education: Students with Special Needs, examines the...
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Guerrilla war for sixth forms
An independent further education advisory group has called for a moratorium on new school sixth-forms after a survey highlighted alarming side effects of their rivalry with colleges. Laser, the...
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Researchers facing shortage of patients
Medical researchers should have the freedom to pay hospitals other than their own to send them patients, according to Malcolm Green, the director of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation. This...
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Students lobby MPs over Bill for disabled
Hundreds of students were expected to join the National Union of Students' lobby of Parliament this Thursday in protest at the Government's Disabilities Discrimination Bill. Jim Murphy, president of...
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Digging design
(Photograph) - Digging design: David Stevens, Britain's first professor of garden design, wants to save the British garden from the time warp into which it has fallen. He said in his inaugural...
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Colleges snub entry proposal
Plans to introduce a post-results admissions system have run into trouble from colleges of higher education. The Standing Conference of Principals has opposed moves to allow students to apply to...
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Budget threat to space science
British research projects in particle physics and astronomy are under threat because of last week's science budget allocations to the research councils. According to officials at the Particle Physics...
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Pay-offs: colleges to tell
Six further education colleges will have to explain "potentially unusual payments" worth a total of Pounds 300,000 following an inquiry by the National Audit Office into severance payments. The...
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Donors give Pounds 35m for loan launch
The number of black South African students receiving loans will treble to 70,000 this year following a three-month government fund-raising drive which netted more than Pounds 35 million (Rand 210m)....