Institute of Physics
* The president-elect of the Institute of Physics (IOP), Brian Manley, said last week that the institute may fund research into the structure and content of post-16 education, writes Graham Lawton....
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Stars in her eyes
(Photograph) - Stars in her eyes: Hazel Hall, single parent of two, has just been awarded a first-class honours on the part-time BA fine art course at the Canterbury College of the Kent Institute of...
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Cambridge sends smoke signals
More than 3,500 Cambridge University dons will finally decide today whether to accept the controversial gift of Pounds 1.5 million from tobacco giant BAT Industries for a professorship in...
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Post script
We apologise to THES subscribers whose copies are delayed by this week's planned one-day postal strike, which, as we went to press, was due to take place on Thursday.
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Class act
(Photograph) - Diane Modahl will run in the Olympic 800 metres having just done a media studies degree
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Disco Gold: John Tomlinson
(Photograph) - Disco Gold: John Tomlinson, head of department at Glasgow School of Art, won second prize with this photograph in the college winners 'category in the 1996 Fujifilm student awards
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Better dead end than nothing
Graduates are taking "boring" and "routine" jobs once shunned by self-respecting university students, according to a report by the Institute of Employment Studies. In a survey of 1,000 Sussex...
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Tough talk from top woman v-c
Fay Gale, the first woman to head the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee, is a high-flying academic with a string of prizes, papers and books to her credit. Vice chancellor of Western Australia's...
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Wish-list or hit-list: wait for Dearing
The 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England has just issued a consultative document on the funding method it should adopt for teaching from 1997/98 onwards. To its credit, the council's...
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Fall-out from the nuclear family
Divorce, single parenthood and live-in lovers have changed the variety and complexion of the British family. But one thing has not changed - the woman who has a man and the child who has a resident...
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Soil scoop to seek life on Mars
Moon rock, the only planetary material to have been brought back to earth by humans, could soon be outdone by Mars rock, if a plan by Nasa comes to fruition. The United States space agency has...
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Race track puts broad base in pole position
The Government should concentrate on promoting broad-based university and school education and avoid detailed involvement in job-specific training, according to new findings by the Institute of...
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Oxford reveals business aim
Oxford University has announced plans for a world-class international business school funded by its largest single benefaction in 60 years, writes Alan Thomson. Vice chancellor Peter North said it...
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Meaningless moos and slightly used wives
If a child is left out for more than 20 hours a day it would have a devastating effect on the child's development. Peter Barnes's Open University students are always a fruitful source of unusual...
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Snakes and ladders
Finding a job is a process fraught with tough decisions. Four graduates describe their experiences. Paul Wilkes, from Barrow upon Soar, gained a 2:1 in mathematics from Leicester University. He also...