Child abuse term is 'too confusing'
Twenty years after first proposing the term Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) as a label for a form of child abuse, Roy Meadow, professor of paediatrics and child health at St James's University...
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Fun factor ignored in pupil sums
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. School-leavers grossly underestimate how much they will spend on enjoying...
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THESIS
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication The service is...
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Big guns join league table race
The university guide published annually by the magazine US News and World Report, whose league tables routinely drive United States academics to distraction, is to be challenged by similar...
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Take a deep breath
Tom Husband urges the Labour party to grasp the funding nettle and back loans for tuition fees. Gordon Brown wrote in the last edition of Fabian Review that "the defining characteristic of the new...
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Lads of hope and glory
What is it about Oasis that gets to people? Angela McRobbie argues that the group champions the dispossessed male. When a fortysomething academic like myself dreams she is going out with Noel...
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City advert 'stretched the truth'
Advertising standards watchdogs have upheld for the first time a complaint about quality claims made by a university. City University's Centre for Internal Auditing was forced to change an...
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Misery Down Under as budget slashed
The Australian government is to slash Aus$1.8 billion (Pounds 0.9 billion) from the higher education budget over the next three years and radically reshape the way students pay for their tuition in...
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Blackburn's mark
A bid by Blackburn College to gain a Citizen's Charter Mark is being considered by the Government. The college will have to prove it is working to improve quality, choice, and provide "customers"...
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Fission fun
At last the event for those who are tired of all the carping about nuclear power and nuclear weapons and think they are just great. Coming next month, an annual symposium of the splendidly named...
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On your marks for clearing handicap
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. Funding targets are set. Students have their marks. And they're off. With...
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Lab becomes new SIM city
Laboratories can now put themselves under the microscope using a software toolkit developed at Glasgow University. Barry Clark and Euan Crawford, of the department of pathological chemistry, have...
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Malaysia approaches open road
The Malaysian government looks set to approve at least two privately-run universities this summer, including an open technical university in Port Dickson and a national institute of engineering in...
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Jobs for the women at Birkbeck
Birkbeck College now has seven female professors. This places us fourth in your league table (THES, July 26) with 15.9 per cent, not joint 29th with 6.8 per cent. The two Oxford academics, Jennifer...
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Pacific overtures
Paul Keating launched Australia towards a republic when he was prime minister. Now a visiting lecturer, he tells Chris Johnston about his hopes for the nation. In the scheme of things, Paul Keating...