Italy's love-hate relationship with Raphael
Italy probably fought hardest for Raphael, the European Commission's student exchange programme in art restoration and conservation, yet it now has the greatest problems in taking part. The country's...
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Language barriers in the seminar
Jennie Bristow examines the pros and cons of the influx of overseas students LECTURERS are preparing themselves for a new set of faces in universities at the start of the United Kingdom's academic...
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Harkness harnessed to US health policy
A CHANGE in the arrangements for Harkness fellowships are causing mid-Atlantic pique, confusion, and in some cases heart-felt grief. The outstanding people selected for the award were funded to...
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Honorary degrees
University of Exeter DD: Desmond Tutu, archbishop, prominent anti-apartheid campaigner, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. DLitt: Bridget Riley, artist; Joyce...
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Appointments
The Wellcome Trust Mike Dexter, (above) director of the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester, will succeed Bridget Ogilvie as director on her retirement next year. University of...
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Look who's over here
Over a fifth of postgraduates are overseas students. Mark Nye looks at the attractions of studying in the United Kingdom THE SCRAMBLE for a university place for Michaelmas entry is in full swing but...
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No curtain to raise
Kam Patel unearths the powerful interests that coalesced to deprive Cardiff of Zaha Hadid's award-winning opera house. To this day, the architect Zaha Hadid is at a loss to know why the Millennium...
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Nuclear family meltdown?
Alison Utley reports on new research which claims that same-sex relationships are reordering the British household. What do today's young people really want out of life? New sociological research...
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Endless points of order
The party conference season opens this year to the sound of organisational shuffling rather than ideological clashing. Richard Cockett reports as Blair prepares to rid Labour of the last rituals of...
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Swanning around on the river
Julia Hinde meets the warden of the Queen's swans, Christopher Perrins Swanning around on the river. The Queen's swan warden is rather looking forward to the next week. Surrounded by publishers'...
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Unnaturally concerned
As the list of genetically modified foods expands, so the level of consumer anxiety burgeons. Simon Midgley looks at the causes of public concern. As the list of genetically modified foods expands,...
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Britain's wards of shame
David Pilgrim argues that our scandal-hit maximum security hospitals are unreformable, expensive Victorian relics that should be closed. Anonymous threats of death and sexual violence are to be...
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Speaking the same language
(Photograph) - Japanese postgraduates Ami Fakuda and Sanae Izumi work on their English at the University of Leeds language centre to prepare themselves for their masters degrees
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Fact File
The 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 20 per cent of first-degree graduates go on to further study. * 55 per cent of the women who continued studying went on to...
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Value us more, plead sad MBAs
Employers do not appreciate employees with MBAs, a study from Imperial College Management School has found, writes Phil Baty. The study found that 57 per cent of the school's alumni believe that...