Lecturers-for-hire service slashes prices
A new business providing lecturers for hire has cut its subscription rate by Pounds 1,000-Pounds 2,000 per college, fuelling speculation that the take-up of the service has been poorer than expected...
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Unions signal summer of disputes as employers look again at pay offer
Higher education unions in new universities and colleges this week predicted industrial action as a result of the employers' "derisory" pay offer. Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union...
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It's a dog's life
At the time when the United Oxford and Cambridge University Club is defeating its pro-women lobby, another, less publicised Cambridge male bastion has fallen - but not to the delight of many...
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Simply frightening
Edinburgh doctor Colin Douglas, writing in the latest Student British Medical Journal, provides a helpful if worrying insight into interviews for new medical graduates. "Do not be alarmed if we ask...
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Problems add up
Maths exam students at an Ulster college could count on nothing last week. They sat down to do their exam paper and soon realised that they had been given the paper they were due to sit the following...
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Alarming tale
Perhaps Mr Widgery could set his mind to the design flaws in the fire alarm system installed at Imperial College London. The alarms are not triggered by cigarette smoke . . . unless the naughty...
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Mine's a Napier
Academics at some Scottish higher education institutions have taken to referring to a gin and tonic as "a Napier", a reference to the High Court case this spring, when Napier lecturer Paul Agutter...
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Fast repast
At last, an insight into what sets the Scots apart from other European nations - they eat faster than anyone else. The discovery was made by a multicultural group of student teachers from...
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Child prodigy is sent home
Adam Dent, a 15-year-old "child prodigy" who is just finishing the first year of a chemistry degree course, has been sent home until the end of term following allegations about his behaviour made by...
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Oxford review snag
Responses to Oxford University's first wholesale review in 30 years have signalled concerns over the style and direction of the exercise. A report from the eight-member commission of inquiry says...
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Internet news
The THES Internet Service this week carries the Research Opportunities listings in full. The service also includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated...
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Health wealth
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals this week launched Universities and the Health of the Nation, to highlight the contribution that universities make to medical research. The document...
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Pay latest
Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union was expected to submit a claim for a flat pay increase of nearly Pounds 2,900 for l995/96 on all scales to the College Employers' Forum today. But...
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Labour formula
The Labour Party has this week launched an initiative to debate the shortcomings of British science policy. Called Scientists for Labour, it has attracted the support of more than 200 scientists.
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Scots settle
Scotland's former central institutions have reached a 2.7 per cent pay settlement, backdated to April 1. The award has been recommended to all 12 higher education institutions.