Unions reject 2.1% offer
Unions in the old universities have flatly rejected this year's pay offer to academic and technical staff, saying it amounts to a cut in real terms. The 2.1 per cent increase proposed by the...
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Immortal cells key to cancer
Scientists' understanding of how cancers develop is being rewritten by a new discovery in cell biology. The mechanisms that control cells dying may be the most crucial aspect of regulating the body,...
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Funders call for salaries lure
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has called for a continuing expansion of student numbers, backed by "fully competitive" salaries for staff. In a trenchant submission to the Government's...
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N. Ireland plans Scots model
Northern Ireland's regional education boards are likely to lose control of further education in the province. But the proposals for their future have not dispelled the uncertainty hanging over...
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Global vision
(Photograph) - Global vision: the European environmental satellite ERS-2, above, will be launched next week carrying eight instruments, including the along-track scanning radiometer (ATSR-2), built...
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Mauritius wins loan
The island of Mauritius, a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean known for its sugar fields, volcanic mountains and white beaches, is to receive a $16 million World Bank loan for higher education....
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Salary secrecy slammed
Many senior academic staff are in the dark about how their pay increases are awarded, according to lecturers' union Natfhe. It has blamed the scrapping of nationally negotiated scales for...
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The reel thing
As Oxford University tardily embraces film as a subject worthy of academic study, Ian Christie assures the traditionally trained that they can feel comfortable with the seductive magic of the cinema...
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Thou shalt honour thy sources
Jim Parlour argues that if we are going to lecture students on the evils of plagiarism, we ought to be clear about what it is. Wolverhampton University has launched a poster campaign to "warn...
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Our three pound engine
Paul Churchland argues that as the secrets of the brain are uncovered by neural science, its many ills will become as easy to treat as the ills of the body. The past five years have seen an...
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Past masters
Composer Jonathan Harvey recalls his former maestros. I liked several of my Cambridge tutors well enough, but I did not get the sort of teaching that I needed. Analysis was rudimentary, the idea of...
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`Keep your mind in hell and despair not'
Elaine Williams talks to Gillian Rose, the philosopher who has fused her scholarship, love affairs and experience of ovarian cancer into an extraordinary bestselling book. It takes an extraordinary...
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A contrary ventriloquist
For Oxford political theorist and former Thatcherite John Gray the central point is that there is no central point. David Walker reports on a self-confessed 'contrarian'. Philosophy is back. So...
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Unions in local pay scale fight
Scotland's two main academic unions have joined forces to repel a threat to national pay scales, despite being bound by separate negotiations. The Association of University Teachers Scotland and the...
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Employers' bodies explore the options
It is perhaps ironic that at a time when the further education sector has a pressing need to see the long-running dispute with Natfhe on lecturers' contracts settled as calmly as possible, the...