In a linguistic jam
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has revealed herself to be a budding linguist. She told a Westminster Hall debate on language teaching and learning, earlier this month, that she was...
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Chuffed chiefs
Yet more entries have arrived for the competition to identify the collective noun for a train load of vice-chancellors. Readers have suggested a consignment or, in the light of the spending review, a...
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Falling demand threatens to scupper target
Demand for higher education is stagnant, endangering the government's 50 per cent participation target, according to figures published today, writes Alison Goddard. The number of UK school-leavers...
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Plagiarism puts Monash v-c out of job
The vice-chancellor of one of the world's top universities was forced to quit last week after an investigation by The THES revealed that he had been a serial plagiarist. Monash University, in...
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Science world stung by more fraud allegations
Two more allegations of research fraud have hit the science world following recent events at Bell Labs. It has emerged that Victor Ninov, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has...
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Europe's top computer goes to Daresbury
The next-generation supercomputer, the most powerful available to researchers in Europe, will be sited at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire. A joint team from Daresbury and Edinburgh University will...
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Project aims to power environmental change
The environmental record of universities will be scrutinised in a two-year project led by the University of Bradford. Project director Peter Hopkinson, senior lecturer in environmental management,...
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Professor loses court action against Leeds
A professor has lost his claim that his employer, Leeds University, drove him to a nervous breakdown. Esmail Foumeny, a professor of chemical engineering, resigned as head of department in 1997 as a...
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UK's poor diet costs NHS £3 billion a year
The nation's poor diet could be costing the National Health Service as much as £3 billion a year, according to research from the University of Bristol. In a report for Waitrose, Bristol's David...
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'Fast-food' history proves unpalatable
Historians have complained that the modular system of teaching history is subjecting undergraduates to "an unwholesome diet of fast academic food". A survey by the magazine History Today found that...
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Twin sisters awarded identical degrees
Twins Helen and Jane Barraclough are graduating from the University of Manchester with first-class degrees in biological sciences this week. The twins got exactly the same GCSE results and achieved...
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King's College set to test athletes for drugs
The Drug Control Centre at King's College London will test athletes at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games, which begin next week. Some 4,000 athletes are due to take part in the games. The centre...
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Merton students top Oxford degree table
Students at Merton College gained the best degrees in Oxford University, according to this year's Norrington table. The table, which ranks colleges by the class of degrees gained, puts St John's...
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A man of letters
Kingston University has a new chairman of its board of governors, Jerry Cope. For his day job, Mr Cope represents Royal Mail on the board of the troubled Consignia group. Consignia announced record £...
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Why I ...believe the PhD is in danger of becoming a joke
British academics have traditionally prided themselves on the academic rigour of their research and their ability to produce useful outcomes in terms of completed projects and publications. Their...