We came, we saw, we came seventh
In his last report from Atlanta, our correspondent Jon Wyatt sees the Olympic flame glow and then die. The Atlanta Olympic Games started and finished with the sort of shows that can take place only...
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Crash course in basics
A university is running crash courses in basic skills to bring students up to scratch before they start their degree courses. Teesside University planned a summer school in skills such as essay...
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Struck out
"Save British Science Society: Supporting Science and the Applications of Science" is the header that accompanies all SBS press releases. The society's bold mission (impossible?) seems however to...
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Gap year used to map career
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. Last year, more than 32,000 of the 205,000 applicants with enough A- level and...
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Child abuse term is 'too confusing'
Twenty years after first proposing the term Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) as a label for a form of child abuse, Roy Meadow, professor of paediatrics and child health at St James's University...
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Fun factor ignored in pupil sums
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. School-leavers grossly underestimate how much they will spend on enjoying...
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THESIS
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESIS on the Tuesday before publication The service is...
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Big guns join league table race
The university guide published annually by the magazine US News and World Report, whose league tables routinely drive United States academics to distraction, is to be challenged by similar...
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Take a deep breath
Tom Husband urges the Labour party to grasp the funding nettle and back loans for tuition fees. Gordon Brown wrote in the last edition of Fabian Review that "the defining characteristic of the new...
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Lads of hope and glory
What is it about Oasis that gets to people? Angela McRobbie argues that the group champions the dispossessed male. When a fortysomething academic like myself dreams she is going out with Noel...
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City advert 'stretched the truth'
Advertising standards watchdogs have upheld for the first time a complaint about quality claims made by a university. City University's Centre for Internal Auditing was forced to change an...
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Misery Down Under as budget slashed
The Australian government is to slash Aus$1.8 billion (Pounds 0.9 billion) from the higher education budget over the next three years and radically reshape the way students pay for their tuition in...
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Blackburn's mark
A bid by Blackburn College to gain a Citizen's Charter Mark is being considered by the Government. The college will have to prove it is working to improve quality, choice, and provide "customers"...
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Fission fun
At last the event for those who are tired of all the carping about nuclear power and nuclear weapons and think they are just great. Coming next month, an annual symposium of the splendidly named...
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On your marks for clearing handicap
THES reporters on the annual race of students for places which gets under way this week with hurdles for both sides. Funding targets are set. Students have their marks. And they're off. With...