Governors told to be more open
Universities should model their governing machinery on the "old" universities with staff and student representation, open systems for nominating governors and all decisions except those concerning...
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Help for contract staff
Proposals for the career management of contract research staff in universities are close to being finalised by the research councils. Kenneth Edwards, chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors...
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Funders delay quality plan
Vice chancellors are facing further delays before they can discuss the Higher Education Funding Council for England's proposals for a single quality body. The funding council is committed to...
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Net users take fast line to new jobs
Use of The THES Internet Service increased by half as the online service, offering job advertisements, summaries of the newspaper's contents, and other resources, entered its second week. The busiest...
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Students lobby on cut
Mature students from across the country lobbied MPs at the House of Commons this week on the abolition of their special allowance in the budget. A spokesperson for the National Union of Students,...
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Scottish lead way on credit-based courses
Scotland is leading the way in quality assurance for credit-based education through its pioneering national credit accumulation and transfer scheme, SCOTCAT. The scheme's Quality Assurance Handbook,...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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Appointments at the Academy of Medical Sciences
New fellows elected to the the AMS on April 1 2001. Dr Timothy John Aitman , M.R.C. Clinical Scientist, Honorary Clinical Reader and Consultant Physician, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre,...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who was born in El Quds: "If the knowledge of Orientalism has any meaning, it is in being a reminder of the seductive degradation of knowledge, of any...
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Speaking Volumes: New Society (1962-87)
Simon Frith on New Society (1962-87). When New Society was launched (as the social sciences' own New Scientist) on October 4, 1962, I was still at school. I bought the magazine every week and read it...
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A blood-soaked land between two rivers
Iraq since the Gulf War - Inside the Arab World - The Shi'as of Iraq
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A thinking deficit
The Goals of Macroeconomic Policy
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Adam Smith altruist
Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics - Egalitarian Perspectives - Profits, Priests and Princes - Adam Smith's Discourse
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Anatomy of a giant
The German Economy - Money and Magic
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Asian forces alter the status quo
The Global Competitiveness of the Asian Firm