Current pleasures
Sir Ron Dearing can hardly be faulted for his willingness to take on a challenge. But there are signs he is growing a tad tired of the latest he has set himself - to complete the higher education...
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Slow motion
The odd moment of fun enlivened an otherwise terribly serious AUT council meeting in Scarborough last week. Delegates indulged in a pretty spectacular piece of time wasting over the name of its...
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Deathlong earning
The cash-strapped Open University is tackling Government funding cuts with a unique approach to alumnus relations. Cutbacks at the OU's regional centres, a string of redundancies and a reduction in...
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Whipped delights
As the Government unveils its plans to improve basic literacy in schools, Edinburgh University has launched a pincer movement through its Centre of Canadian Studies. Ged Martin, the centre's director...
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Laid and paid
Alumnus to be proud of No 107 is Tony Banks, our ebullient new sports minister whose evident capacity for enjoying himself was well developed by the time he went to York University as a politics...
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Fine art rewrite
A review of fine art at Glasgow School of Art has been dramatically rewritten in Scotland's first reassessment of any discipline's teaching quality. The school's fine art teaching has now risen from...
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Survey pleads for career emphasis
UNIVERSITIES must become more career-minded if their students are to have a chance in the cut-throat graduate jobs market, employers have warned, writes Harriet Swain. A survey of 12,000 finalists...
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Degrees expand women's wallets
A DEGREE can expand the wallet as well as the mind - especially for women. New government-funded research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies has found women graduates earn 35 per cent more because of...
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Place of refuge
(Photograph) - Place of refuge: Pascal Nugiraneza fled from the genocide sweeping Rwanda two and a half years ago and became a postgraduate economics student at York University. After completing his...
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Delegates get tough
STORM clouds are gathering over universities as lecturers fight to defend jobs and pay. Delegates at last week's Association of University Teachers council meeting in Scarborough passed an emergency...
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Motions condemn contracts
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ AUT has voted for outright opposition to fixed-term contracts amid fears that within three years fewer than one in five academics will enjoy the security of a permanent contract. Council passed a...
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Natfhe members demand sweeping review
DELEGATES at this week's Natfhe conference will be asked to approve a fundamental review of the union's organisation amid leadership problems, falling membership and growing industrial disputes....
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20 pc use ELS, but who owns it?
NEW figures have revealed the unrelenting drive towards the mass casualisation of college lecturers with two out of five institutions having already replaced or considering replacing permanent...
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Do you take this college to be your lawful...
Shot-gun weddings or happy marriages? Throughout the country further and higher education institutions are embracing. É«ºÐÖ±²¥S reporters interview the prospective partners. The first full merger between...
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Welfare to work threat to jobs
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ TRAINING and Enterprise Councils have warned that the Government's ambitious welfare-to-work programme could actually increase unemployment, without proper planning. The TEC National Council has...