Now is the time for radical action
Skill shortages are here again. Employers are whingeing about lack of suitable staff. There is talk again of recruiting overseas. Salaries are going up faster than inflation. Poaching is back in...
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Overheads must be paid for
FUNDING councils, research councils, companies, charities: they all agree that research needs expensive equipment. They part company, however, on who should provide it. The urgency of this issue,...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: *Staff costs at higher education institutions represented 57.9 per cent of total expenditure *There was a 26 per cent...
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Subject quality league tables
IN THE subject quality league table (THES, 23 May) the Open University's research rating for geography and the University of Wales, Bangor's rating for ocean studies should both have been a 4.
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Said approves new site
DETAILS emerged last week of the new Oxford University business school site, which has now met the approval of donor Wafic Said. The price of the Railtrack-owned site next to Oxford station is still...
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Colleges braced for stringent cuts
COLLEGES this week learned the brutal truth about the scale of next year's funding cuts with the worst hit resigning themselves to slashing student provision and wringing more work from staff. The...
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Jospin gives Allegre HE job
Lionel Jospin, prime minister of France, this week named Claude All gre as minister for education, technology and research. Mr All gre, a geophysicist, had been widely tipped for the post and was Mr...
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Carbon's ebbs and flows probed
Julia Hinde marks World Oceans' Day with a trawl of marine research The role of oceans in preventing global warming is being assessed by British scientists who are taking their expertise to the...
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The Pauline Hanson Controversy
* "The Pauline Hanson Controversy" is the subject of a lecture by Tony Griffiths, a history lecturer from Flinders University in Adelaide, at 5.30pm on July 2 at the Menzies Centre for Australian...
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Too many chiefs drain coffers
COLLEGES appear to have fallen into the health service trap of employing more chiefs than indians, with an estimated extra Pounds 300 million spent employing managers in the past four years, writes...
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Don's diary
Monday Mixed feelings about my lot. The usual news of traffic jams and bad weather to delight the heart of the home worker but irritation that the "server is down" and therefore my virtual existence...
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What is the use of maths?
As far as I can remember, I have always found mathematics a thoroughly enjoyable, if challenging, endeavour. It carries the same intellectual challenge and sense of competition as chess and gives the...
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Porterhouse blues
(Photograph) - Porterhouse blues: Porters in traditional universities earn an average of Pounds 7,613 a year, despite working for some of the richest universities in the world. They would do better...
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Colleges could lose their medics
Medicine could become a postgraduate only subject and be transfered from universities to the NHS, a British Medical Association meeting heard this week. Colin Smith, chairman of the BMA Medical...
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Low pay scandal shames sector
HIGHER education workers are being exploited through a culture of low pay that leaves some earning half the amount of their private sector counterparts, a new survey has revealed. Trade unions have...