Union to fight staff dismissals
The Educational Institute of Scotland is to pursue unfair dismissal claims on behalf of three academics made compulsorily redundant at Jewel and Esk Valley College. The union says it does not accept...
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Singed sausages burn fingers
Student fare may be humble, but the price of the average undergraduate's gastronomic experiments is potentially astronomic. The burned burger and the singed sausage, trademark of the novice self-...
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Spy row prompts dig halt
The University of Wales has suspended its involvement in an archaeological dig in Bulgaria after a senior lecturer was accused of military espionage and expelled. Douglass Bailey, an American who...
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Knights top pay league
Vice chancellors who have been knighted earn 31 per cent more than those without public honours, according to a report by economists on top academics' pay. It predicts that the new openness about...
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Catching on
(Photograph) - Catching on: a passer-by admires a model of a Rolls-Royce for the 21st century made by Sean Henstridge, a graduate from the MA automotive design course at Coventry University, whose...
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Mururoa divides scientists
Scientists are polarised about possible environmental damage caused by French nuclear tests such as Tuesday's at Mururoa atoll in the Pacific. Most scientists think that the explosion will create an...
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Vet school anthrax stocks destroyed
Stocks of anthrax bacteria at Cambridge University department of clinical veterinary medicine have been destroyed after the Health and Safety Executive discovered that the bug was being handled in a...
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Unclear route for the rest
GNVQs fail to make the grade on three counts, Alan Smithers argues. England and Wales, indeed the whole of the United Kingdom, vitally need a good applied education route for educational reasons. We...
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Scots funding formula
John Sizer of SHEFC wants to know if there is a case for treating the same research rankings differently depending on the subject. But he has not told us what the funding councils are doing to ensure...
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Go tell it to the employees
Competence-based training is not new to the Scottish vocational and education and training scene. Assessments based on the ability to demonstrate and do, and assessment and education and training...
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Guilty of science on Brent Spar
Greenpeace's Sue Mayer (THES, August 25) chose to misinterpret some of my written words and to quote others out of context. In my Brent Spar article (THES, August 11) I did not write that "dumping...
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Healthy baby
I would, for the record, point out that Sheffield achieved the integration of its local nursing and midwifery college, as a full school of its faculty of medicine, on April 1 this year ("Nottingham...
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Balkan reality
Will Podmore's letter "Let the Yugoslavs fight their civil war" (THES, August 25) repeated common myths and failed to describe the reality of the conflict in the Balkans. He asked important questions...
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Favourites boost profs' popularity
A series of radio spots in which celebrities will talk about "My Favourite Professor" is being planned in the United States. Faced with a hostile Congress and a battery of negative publicity, the 44,...
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California president aims for peace
Bitter opponents of the University of California regents, who last month voted to end "affirmative action" or positive discrimination programmes on nine state campuses, have taken to the Internet to...