No time to sit about
There are now well over 200,000 postgraduates in British higher education -- one in seven students. This includes a 76 per cent increase in home postgraduates alone since 1988/89. The rise has been...
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Gongs for the gang
Winners of the first Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education are published today. The prizes, set up with funds remaining from the Queen's 40th anniversary year celebrations, are...
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Just say no, in a very proper protest
The publication by the Higher Education Funding Council for England of its decisions on the assessment of teaching quality in 1995 and 1996 confronts universities with their most serious challenge...
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Try business class world wide
The major debate about the future of British academic research will not be about who should fund it. As in all other leading market economies, the overwhelming share will continue to be funded by...
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No chance to talk
Olga Wojtas (THES, October 14) reported on the findings of an industrial tribunal against the University of Glasgow which found unanimously that two members of staff had been unfairly dismissed...
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Woman's place
The question of whether attempts should be made to accommodate academic spouses (THES, November 18) when making appointments is difficult. Your academic couples were examples where both members...
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`Perks' cause resentment
The funding council's investigation of vice chancellors' salaries (THES, October 28) should be placed in the context of the wider debate over standards in British public life. I hope that HEFCE will...
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Threat posed by a third semester
I welcome Richard Jones's awareness of the problems which any move to an early September start to the academic year would cause, which underline Natfhe's policy to resist any such proposals (THES,...
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Nice one, Cyril
Having been made redundant by Goldsmiths College "on thematic grounds" last August, I am naturally delighted to hear that "redundancy is not looming" there (THES, November 11). The news of the accord...
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Fat cats in top hats
Here are the dates of foundation of the precursors of the major British government funding agencies for science and higher education: Medical Research Council, 1913; Science and Engineering Research...
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Partiality of UN secretary
This week talks are to take place in Geneva, under the auspices of the UN, in an attempt to achieve a settlement of the long-running crisis that has resulted from the Georgian attack on Abkhazia in...
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Procedures not bypassed
It was perhaps inevitable that a letter headed "Lecturers loathe to report on GNVQs" emanated from the secretary of a Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards' (sic). I would like to...
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A halting revolution
The socialist regimes of central and eastern Europe assumed that statements of equality in their constitutions were all that was needed to ensure equality. Yet they did make some special provisions...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. Car from Anglesey to Manchester, then to Nice via Brussels. At the airport study a 15-page Ministry of Agriculture form on which proposals must be submitted. Seems longer than some research...
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AUT aims for uniform pay - but not yet
The THES (November 11) correctly reported that the Association of University Teachers was not in favour of either joint pay scales or joint bargaining for academic and related staffs in "old" and "...