Tribunals miss race point, says lecturer
A law lecturer at Manchester University has spoken out against the lay industrial tribunal system, which he says is failing victims of race discrimination in higher education. Asif Qureshi, who is...
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Does the Lottery dice with health?
Two health experts at London University are warning there is an urgent need for research into the effects of the National Lottery. Martin McKee, reader in public health medicine, and health economist...
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Shrunken team on expanded stage
The triple jump, suddenly fashionable in the wake of Jonathan Edwards' spectacular victory at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenberg, could provide further British triumphs at the World...
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Labour faces learning inertia
The Labour Party should tread carefully but boldly if it wants to win votes with the idea of creating "learning accounts" to support education and training, according to independent policy...
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May or may not
Rumours persist in Whitehall that Bob May, the Oxford University-based biologist, initially refused to continue with his appointment as the Government's chief scientific adviser on being notified of...
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The 500 year reunion
In Rashdall's classic study The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages we read: "Paris and Bologna are the archetypal - it might almost be said the only original universities: Paris supplied the...
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Collider hints at new world
Imagine a red car and a yellow car hitting each other head-on at high speed. Both cars are wrecked and debris is strewn across a wide area. But what is this? The red car, despite all the evidence...
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Excluded student prepares to sue
A student on Glasgow Caledonian University Company's troubled counselling course is poised to sue after being excluded from its final stages. Two students on the certificate course, Winifred Scott...
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Lords decide contract staff have equal rights
A House of Lords probe into university scientists' careers has concluded that contract research staff should have the same status and rights as established colleagues of equivalent rank. The plight...
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Millennium mark up
The Scottish Office this week announced upgraded entry requirements for teacher education courses from the academic year 2000/01. Entrants to primary teacher education courses will need a standard...
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Talking terror
The horrors of abduction, torture and murder by governments are coming under scrutiny at a Glasgow University conference today. The university's department of forensic medicine and science is hosting...
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Part-time pay off
More than 250 part-time lecturers have won a total Pounds 100,000 for unfair dismissal or redundancy compensation since the House of Lords ruled last year that they had the right to pursue such...
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Medics' malaise
The latest British Medical Association survey of medical students' finances reveals record debt levels, with an average debt of Pounds 3,696, almost 30 per cent higher than last year. The average...
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Internet news
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our job advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon...
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Soap plot thickens as writers join course
Two leading writers from the soap world are to join university lecturers to teach up-and-coming scriptwriters some tricks of the trade. EastEnders writer Chris Reason and Emmerdale's Gary Brown will...