Giving up the day job
Fed up with the research assessment exercise? Is it your New Year's resolution to get out ofhigher education? Five former academics tell The THES how their extracurricular activities provideda means...
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Peeling back the mandarins
David Walker talks to Sue Richards, a professor of management who prescribes therapy for the public sector. There can be few organisations anywhere within the public sector which have not in recent...
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Honorary degrees
BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY DLitt: David English, chairman, Associated Newspapers. MA: Barbara Chamberlain, former academic secretary of the university. UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE DLitt: Alan Davie,...
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Bob sled speed hope
The prospects of British success in the next winter Olympics will get a boost this week as trials begin in Austria of a new skeleton bob sled designed at Nottingham University. Combining research...
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THESIS
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESISon the Tuesday before publication. The service is...
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Loan chief is named
Colin Ward, assistant managing director of the Student Loans Company, is to become chief executive for three years from January 1. Mr Ward joined the company in 1990, but Sir Eric Ash, acting chief...
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Bolton strike spills over into new year
The lecturers' strike at Bolton College, already a month old, is set to run into the new year. The college management set a final deadline of Friday December 15 for strikers to agree to their new...
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Christmas spirit
(Photograph) - Christmas spirit: Drama students on the BA course at Bretton Hall University College, Wakefield, performing a scene based on Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management at a "Festive...
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Data interpreted
The Government has produced a handbook to help further education colleges meet the needs of business and the labour market. It will help them interpret local employment data.
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Tit-for-tat bank deal claimed
The Government has been accused of bribing private sector lenders to back its twin-track student loans scheme. Six financial institutions which are bidding for a lucrative contract to take over the...
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Rectors as peace-brokers
The rectors of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, of the Jesuits' Gregorian University in Rome and the vice president of Cairo's Al-Azhar University met in Rome as Christmas approached to promote...
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Creatures of habit
(Photograph) - Creatures of habit: "I can have a drink and go to parties. But we are under vows." So says Simon Uttley, one of four Jesuit undergraduates at Campion Hall, Oxford University. Exposed...
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Take the wrap for presents imperfect
The perfect giver of Christmas presents rarely gives money, always wraps gifts and draws attention to the "ritual sacrifice" of shopping they endured in order to find them, say psychologists. The...
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Naval contemplation
Greenwich University's bid to take over the 300-year-old Royal Naval College in Greenwich will be examined by an advisory panel announced this week by Defence Secretary Michael Portillo. A shortlist...
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Horses for resources
Bidders for the Natural Resources Institute have been whittled down to three: Cranfield University; a consortium of Edinburgh and Greenwich universities, Imperial College and Wye College, both part...