Barnard Selects Debora Spar of Harvard as President (Update3)
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Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Barnard College, the womens liberal
arts school affiliated with Columbia University, named Harvard
Business School professor Debora Spar to be its 11th leader.
Spar, 44, will take office as president [...]
Senior Saudi prince offers Israel peace vision
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KRONBERG, Germany (Reuters) - A senior Saudi royal has offered Israel a vision of broad cooperation with the Arab world and people-to-people contacts if it signs a peace treaty and withdraws from all occupied Arab territories.
In an interview with Reuters, Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former ambassador to the United States and Britain and adviser to [...]
When the pathway disappears
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Ed Balls, the secretary of state for children, schools and families, has stated that one of the four building blocks for the successful raising of the education participation age is “advice and guidance that helps all young people make the right choices”. This should be supported by “clear specifications for local authorities to provide every [...]
Gerald Pillay Hope and faith
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There is a cross - minus the figure of a tortured Christ - above the door leading to the comfortable office of the vice-chancellor, set among the well-trimmed gardens of Liverpool’s smallest university. It says a fair bit about the place and the man.”Liverpool Hope is an extraordinary place,” enthuses Professor Gerald Pillay, by training [...]
To have and have not
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Withywood Community school takes its name from the large postwar estate it serves in south Bristol. Its headteacher, Bob Thornton, says his pupils and their parents are the “salt of the earth” and on the up. Official Ofsted forms tell a story of a community where “self-esteem, empowerment and literacy are historically very low”. On [...]
Compulsory home computers are an intrusion too far
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You report education minister Jim Knight as being in talks with companies such as Microsoft, BT, Sky and Virgin to help close the widening achievement gap between pupils from the richest and poorest families (Plan to give every child internet access at home, January 4). It may become compulsory for parents “to provide their children [...]
Logical new plan or a betrayal
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The University and College Union (UCU) is six months old, and the two unions that merged to form it still seem far from becoming one. New proposals for restructuring the union from the general secretary, Sally Hunt, have been met with fierce criticism, and a special meeting of the executive has been called next week [...]
Crib sheet
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Stan’s Facebook page looks much like any other thirtysomething man. He enjoys Holby City and snorkelling, has “very liberal” political views and lists “women” as his main interest. But Stan’s interchangeable genitals, ability to become pregnant and the fact that he dies on a regular basis mark him out as no ordinary social networker.Stan is [...]
Disputes simmer ahead of pay claims
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Whatever sympathy college lecturers might feel for schoolteachers in their pay grievances will no doubt be blunted by an old sense of unfairness.Further education teachers continue to resent the gap between their salaries and what their counterparts in schools earn. Though this has narrowed from 10% or so five years ago to between 6% and [...]
Stock loans surge in toppick Reed Elsevier
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LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Investors have built significant
short positions in Reed Elsevier ahead of its results in three
weeks despite the Anglo-Dutch publisher being rated as one of
the most defensive media stocks in Europe.
Figures from CrestCo, the UK settlements house owned by
Euroclear, show 10 percent of Reed Elsevier’s (ELSN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) (REL.L: [...]
