Galleries get ready to rock
It is just as well that the birds in London's Natural History Museum are dead and stuffed. They lie in rows inside mahogany cases, sharing a conventional museum existence with miscellaneous fossils,...
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Graduates enjoy growth market
The continued recovery in the graduate labour market is good news for the thousands of university students finishing their courses this month and starting the search for work. An Association of...
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Staff stars help San Diego lift-off
Thirty-five years after its founding, the University of California, San Diego, is one of the top research universities in the United States. In 1995, it was ranked tenth in the country on the quality...
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Luther's message to sinners and saints
The attack on Luther's Reformation and its supposed impact on society as a whole described by Bob Scribner (THES, July 12) delivers no convincing argument for a new image. First, the assertion that...
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The brains behind the brawn
Huw Richards talks to the scientists helping the British Olympic team prepare for Atlanta If this goes on, I'll start to get worried about the English identity - I'm not sure it can stand up to all...
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Profile points
Admissions officers could consult online profiles of prospective students under proposals being considered by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. The Tariff Project, run jointly with...
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Beds merger
Cranfield University is merging two affiliated Bedfordshire colleges - Shuttleworth and Silsoe. Shuttleworth's 210 students and 15 staff will move the ten miles to Silsoe. Frank Hartley, vice...
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Athletes will beat drug tests at Atlanta
Athletes at the Olympics will get away with using a range of drugs because tests for detecting them will not stand up in court, research scientists claimed last week. At a conference called Doping in...
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Making the earth move for you
(Photograph) - One of six statues representing ways of looking at the Earth (behind) at the Natural History Museum's new Earth Gallery, which visitors access via the escalator through the rotating...
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Cultural cohorts fit for action
Cultural, communication and media studies courses do prepare students for jobs, a study into the employment of media and related graduates claims. The preliminary survey, conducted by the Standing...
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Anglo-Irish 'double whammy'
William Simpson argues that Trinity College library is penalised because of its legal deposit status for all UK and Irish published materials For most visitors to Ireland, Trinity College library...
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From Third Man to third rate
Continuing our serieson favourite films, Norman Stone contrasts the triumphs of British cinema of the 1950s, epitomised by Carol Reed's The Third Man, with the vacuous efforts of today Music...
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Nursing first
Lothian College of Health Studies, which merges with Napier University on September 1, has become the first Scottish National Health Service college to offer a BSc honours degree in nursing studies....
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Finals and Olympian feats
The Olympic Games in Atlanta will be the second major event of the summer for several British competitors, after their degree finals. Eight-hundred-metre runner Diane Modahl managed to combine her...
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Get the CVs right first, EU trainers told
The European Union must guard against being over-ambitious in its plans to help reform vocational education and training in the former Eastern bloc. The warning came from Anne Jones, professor of...