Licence to thrill runs out after four films
While diamonds are forever, Bond actors tend to lose their shine after the fourth appearance, according to research by a university economist. Mark Baimbridge, a lecturer at Bradford University,...
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Oxford management school's history lessons
In 1990, congregation, the parliament of Oxford University, passed a resolution establishing the school of management studies. This followed widespread discussion in the university stimulated by two...
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Going private on a public matter
One of the fundamental planks in Government policy has been that increases in real incomes have to be earned. Gone are the days when there would be an inexorable rise in living standards, regardless...
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Call for medical contract
A new "contract" between patients, doctors and medicines' regulators is needed to improve communication about the safety of different medicines, according to a new study, writes Kam Patel. Expert and...
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Ranks of ethnic students swollen
More black and Asian students are going to university than ever before, but they apply to a smaller number of universities and a narrower range of courses than their white peers, according to new...
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Return of the natives
Lions, buffalos, elephants, rhinos and leopards - the "big five" as they are known in conservation circles - could once again prosper on the game parks of Mozambique if a major research contract...
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Oxford management school's history lessons
It was good of Alexander Murray to provide such obvious target practice. His tone of high seriousness barely concealed some pretty ill-informed prejudices. The damning with faint praise of management...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. The 30th undergraduate intake of my career and I find myself singing a Rolling Stones' number - "This could be the last time". There must be a better way of admitting students. The...
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Hooray for Henley
A switch in ministerial responsibilities at the Department for Education and Employment has left Lord Henley looking after higher education. Eric Forth, the former higher education minister, now has...
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Vocational A levels hit by dropouts
More than a quarter of students joining "vocational A-level" courses in 1994 have either dropped out or made no progress, it emerged this week. Figures released by the Joint Council of National...
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Tilted timing
One secret at the Open University is that the phrase "unable to attend summer school", when it appears in a student's records, in fact means "detained at Her Majesty's pleasure". But this code could...
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SS officer keeps degree
A German university has decided to allow a former Nazi SS member to keep the doctorate he earned under a pseudonym to conceal his wartime activities. The University of Erlangen-Nurnberg found no...
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Mobility of Irish and Jewish immigrants
This month's prize for Sheer Academic Shamelessness goes to Ceri Peach ("A Question of Collar", THES, August 23). He calmly admits that there is no evidence for a central part of his highly...
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Warrior on want
Blessed are the poor ... for they have Peter Townsend fighting their corner. Which is just as well because, as he argues, the Tories have systematically unpicked the British welfare safety net. Huw...
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BSE on the run
The Wellcome Trust says the BSE epidemic in Britain is in rapid decline and predicts that even if culling does not take place, the epidemic will fade towards extinction by 2001. The trust adds,...