Lecturers' pay lags behind schoolteachers'
Salaries for university academics have risen by less than half the rate for school teachers since 1979. While the average increase in earnings was 37 per cent for all employees between April 1979 and...
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North Wales en route to Normal merger
Bangor University and the north Wales town's Normal College will merge on March 1, 1996. The new institution will cater for 6,700 students, and the changes will mean that two higher education...
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Government rules on primates
Primates caught in the wild are to be banned for use in research, the Government has announced. And regulations on the use of captive-bred primates are to be tightened. But anti-vivisection groups...
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Industry chiefs call for greater say in Scotland
Industrialists want to play a greater part in Scotland's quality assessment system, according to the latest evaluation of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's scheme. Researchers at Moray...
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Three times lucky
(Photograph) - Three times lucky: Ian Springford, an architecture student at Edinburgh College of Art, has won first, second and third prizes in the graduates' section of the international 1995 OASYS...
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Bond bears private strings
The rush by universities to the door of the money markets, which began in earnest last week when Lancaster University became the first higher education institution to launch a bond scheme, could lead...
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NCVQ set for huge expansion by degrees
The Government quango charged with introducing a unified national vocational qualifications system - which would mean universities offering undergraduate and postgraduate NVQs and GNVQs - is set to...
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Call for council to unite Scots adults
Adult educationists in Scotland would like a new Scottish council for continuing education to help bring together the sector's diverse interests. This is the majority view among a sample of Scottish...
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Freebie deal
(Photograph) - Freebie deal: Students at the University of Plymouth's new Pounds 14 million Robbins hall of residence have ended a nine-week rent strike in return for a Pounds ,000 rent cut and...
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Scots stay silent on principals' pay
Only the newest of Scotland's 13 universities, the University of Abertay Dundee, has revealed its principal's salary, a year before being required to do so, according to figures from the Scottish...
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Akker unveils pruning strategy
A campaign for cuts in the structure of lecturers' union Natfhe has been launched by its general secretary, John Akker. Fears of a financial crisis lie behind his proposals to reduce the number of...
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Tropical disease research appeal
A World Health Organisation adviser has appealed to academic chemists and to the drug industry to give tropical disease researchers access to their chemicals. The researchers need to screen them for...
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Tall tales
There's nothing like slightly outre academic expertise to get the odd phone calls coming in. Roderick Floud, the provost of London Guildhall University, is also a leading authority on height through...
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Good God!
Reassurance for those with doubts about the Foreign Office's sources of advice from the latest issue of PSA News: "Basil Eastwood (Head of Research and Analysis Department, FCO), spoke to GOD at...
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Disgusted of . . .
What you find disgusting is not a unique aspect of your multi-faceted personality but falls neatly into one of five categories common to all of us, psychologists have discovered. Karen Barker of City...