First Impressions
This week's First Impressions was written by a supercivilised man: "I am standing on the Pont des Arts in Paris." Entries to First Impressions, The THES, Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield, London...
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Sitting pretty with Mary Allan
Kate Pretty, the principal of 糖心Vlogrton College Cambridge, tells a tale of quads, tables, and natural ventilation to Peter Sandy In her first five years as principal, Kate Pretty has turned round...
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All together now, children
Top researchers have been lured to a transformed Institute of Child Health which lets scientists and clinicians mingle happily. Peter Sandy reports. People work well if they are given good...
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Mr Fixit of campus fugit
Greenwich University has been in training for years for higher education's heritage coup of the century - its occupation of Sir Christopher Wren's Royal Naval College. With its collection of listed...
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The future? A pay-your-own-way free-for-all
Imagine tomorrow's world. Then think again. Fari Aklaghi looks at how scenario planning can help you be more realistic. That higher education faces considerable challenges in the near future is...
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Snuggle up, I'm feeling optimistic
The federation formed by four Manchester business schools three years ago is soon to be embodied in a ?7-million building built to house one of the partners. The facility is in the city centre at the...
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PFI: modern estate management's Man Friday
Remember that with PFI you are buying a service, not a building, advises Mike Sherrington. As a relative latecomer to private finance initiative contracts, higher education estate management has been...
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No more carry on campus
With more than 200,000 university bed spaces in England alone, one for every first-year undergraduate not living at home, student residences are big business. A further 11,000 spaces are under...
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Wanted: flexible, responsible, all-round genius
There seem to be more and more advertisements for heads of estates. They all say they want the successful candidate to be a seasoned all-rounder, with a proven track record of delivering an economic...
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The tanks that think
Simon Midgley turns the spotlight on the Institute for Public Policy Research The Institute for Public Policy Research was set up in 1988 as a left-of centre alternative to the free market think...
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Now you see it, now you don't
You will never get students - or staff - always to lock their doors. Frank Woods looks at other ways to keep intruders out and valuables safe. A couple of weeks ago one university security officer...
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Campus Services
(Photograph) - The financial squeeze on universities in recent years is set to continue. And it is not just academic provision that is undergoing a big transformation. As this issue of Campus...
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The virtual past master
Historians inevitably look at what was, but Niall Ferguson also asks what if ... Sian Griffiths talks to him Niall Ferguson's London flat is like an Oxford undergraduate's set of rooms. True, it is...
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Reigning cats and dogs
People lavish affection and money on pets and some even prefer them to humans. John Archer reveals the evolutionary reasons P D. James's novel The Children of Men takes the apparent decline in sperm...
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The haves and have nots
The general election campaign is unlikely to include discussion of poverty or the gap between rich and poor. Tony Atkinson wonders why Inequality is a major election issue. Even if Labour is cautious...