Complaints boom is looming
More than half of universities do not meet principles of "natural justice" when dealing with student complaints, student leaders believe, writes Phil Baty. Launching the findings of a national survey...
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Lecturers hold own in class terms
University and college lecturers retain their place at the top of the tree following a reclassification of social class this week. They share the rarefied atmosphere with university researchers, who...
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On the move
Lord Tugendhat, 61, chairman of Abbey National and Blue Circle Industries, has been installed as chancellor of the University of Bath. Tony Rich, 44, academic registrar at the University of East...
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British and European social attitudes
A survey of British and European social attitudes was also published this week. It showed that commitment to work has fallen in Britain over the past eight years. In 1989, 65 per cent of Britons said...
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Clampdown on rogue recruiters
A clampdown on the unscrupulous recruitment of full fee-paying overseas research students will be imposed under a tough new set of quality principles governing the recruitment and tuition of all...
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Cash claw-back talks
Misused public money will be clawed back from Halton College following an investigation into the alleged misappropriation of millions of pounds. The Further Education Funding Council has completed a...
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Natfhe campaigns against gagging clauses
Lecturers are still subject to sweeping gagging clauses two years after Lord Nolan's committee of standards in public life explicitly ruled them out as "unacceptable". "Confidential information I...
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World watch
Panama Student protests in Panama City greeted a cut in government funding for local universities from $120 million to $80 million a year after President Ernesto Perez Balladares likened them to...
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Believers who stray made to pay
Boston Some American universities and colleges with religious affiliations have come under attack for endangering academic freedom by acting upon their beliefs. One Catholic college cancelled an...
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Graduation goes off with a bang
Ibadan An explosion disrupted the 50th graduation ceremony at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, minutes before the country's head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, was scheduled to arrive....
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Call for independent inquiry at Anglia
Lecturers' union Natfhe is demanding a full independent inquiry at Anglia Polytechnic University following an investigation by The THES into allegations of nepotism, bullying and senior-level...
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Growth of the LSE Library leads to Huge storage problems
Just about every measure of library activity at the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics shows expansion. Librarian Jean Sykes believes this reflects...
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Hunt for Easter tree
British scientists are behind an international rescue bid to return a flowering hardwood tree, now extinct in the wild, to its native Pacific home of Easter Island. The toromiro tree, Sophora...
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Two-pronged attack on rheumatoid arthritis
An innovative two-pronged attack to prevent the progress of rheumatoid arthritis is being pioneered by scientists at the University of Leeds. In rheumatoid arthritis the body's immune system attacks...
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The borrowers' life on the shelf
Soaring publication prices hit university libraries just when they were getting to grips with greater student demand and the information revolution. Kam Patel asks if they can rise to the challenges...