Liberal Democrats spokesman named
PHIL WILLIS, MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, has been named by the Liberal Democrats as their new further and higher education spokesman. Mr Willis has been a head-teacher of two comprehensive...
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Degrees rule the House
ALMOST three-quarters of MPs in the new House of Commons have a university education. In 1945, just 43 per cent had a degree, writes Alison Utley. MPs are still most likely to have studied at Oxford...
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Scotland faces cash crisis
SCOTTISH higher education faces an "unmitigated tragedy" if the Government does not back off from the Tories' proposed spending plans, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has warned...
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Labour gives Sir Ron his head
LABOUR is hoping that Sir Ron Dearing's review of higher education will offer some clear answers as well as questions about the future of the sector when it reports in July. Tessa Blackstone and Kim...
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Out of the shadows into a place in the sun
IF MINISTERIAL hopefuls endured a tense weekend after the general election as they waited for the call from Downing Street, former Shadow Cabinet advisers had an even tougher time. Disappointed...
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Ron and Ron
Stop press on the sluggish progress of Oxford's commission of inquiry into the workings of the university. Antithesis last left inquiry members debating whether to bring out their two-and-a-half year...
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Power dressing
One of the surprises of the election aftermath: the sight of Ian MacKenzie entering No 10 Downing Street along with new boss Ann Taylor. Formerly president of the student union at the University of...
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Dirty joke
Westminster University lecturers could have been forgiven for thinking they had to lump cleaning duties on to their already onerous academic workloads, Antithesis has learned. An internal memo, dated...
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Syne language
Who needs the Scottish parliament? Scotland already appears to have declared UDI through abandoning the English language. The information superhighway is about to be signposted in Scots, thanks to...
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Bridge players
So much for the classless society. Maybe it is the reaction to being led over the precipice by a chap with a couple of O levels, but you would think that with six runners for the Conservative party...
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Director of drive and energy
Tony Tysome on the background to the latest move in the Southampton Institute saga On paper, David Leyland's performance as a manager in higher education looks impressive. Since becoming Director of...
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Unions aren't us, thanks
BETTINA RHOADES runs a picket-line gauntlet of union taunts every day, unshakable in her belief that her responsibility is to students, writes Alan Thomson. Mrs Rhoades, a lecturer in floristry and...
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Unions aren't us, thanks
ALAN GREEN, a lecturer in the built environment at the University of Central England, has become disillusioned with unions, writes Harriet Swain. A Natfhe member for 18 years, he failed to renew his...
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Unions aren't us, thanks
ALISTAIR HEADLEY, lecturer in environmental science at Bradford University, was a member of the AUT until 1994, writes Julia Hinde. "I was appalled by the way the AUT did not stand up and fight...
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Membership numbers are on the side
LESS than half of further and higher education lecturers are members of unions and redundancy, early retirement and general disillusionment all threaten further recruitment. The latest membership...