Chinese graduates sail into jobs
Most of this summer's 866,000 Chinese university graduates have already found jobs, according to the Chinese State Education Commission in Beijing. Ninety per cent of the 400,000 students graduating...
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Straitjacket binds artists
In his letter ("Wolf is in the art studio", THES, June 28), Richard Robbins usefully highlights the plight of art college education, and the damage caused by cuts to the important input by part-time...
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Bullying off for Britain
In the first of three articles, Olympic hockey player and student chemist John Wyatt sets off on the road to Atlanta As I walked off the pitch I was overcome by relief. We had beaten Belgium 2-0 in...
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Raven has landed at Sussex
All degree programmes at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication will be validated by Sussex University following an announcement last week of an official affiliation between the two...
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CJD judgment
A High Court judgement is expected today on whether the Medical Research Council is liable for negligence in adminstering a human growth hormone treatment in the 1960s and 1970s. Ten families in...
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Galleries get ready to rock
It is just as well that the birds in London's Natural History Museum are dead and stuffed. They lie in rows inside mahogany cases, sharing a conventional museum existence with miscellaneous fossils,...
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Graduates enjoy growth market
The continued recovery in the graduate labour market is good news for the thousands of university students finishing their courses this month and starting the search for work. An Association of...
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Staff stars help San Diego lift-off
Thirty-five years after its founding, the University of California, San Diego, is one of the top research universities in the United States. In 1995, it was ranked tenth in the country on the quality...
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Luther's message to sinners and saints
The attack on Luther's Reformation and its supposed impact on society as a whole described by Bob Scribner (THES, July 12) delivers no convincing argument for a new image. First, the assertion that...
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The brains behind the brawn
Huw Richards talks to the scientists helping the British Olympic team prepare for Atlanta If this goes on, I'll start to get worried about the English identity - I'm not sure it can stand up to all...
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Profile points
Admissions officers could consult online profiles of prospective students under proposals being considered by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. The Tariff Project, run jointly with...
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Beds merger
Cranfield University is merging two affiliated Bedfordshire colleges - Shuttleworth and Silsoe. Shuttleworth's 210 students and 15 staff will move the ten miles to Silsoe. Frank Hartley, vice...
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Athletes will beat drug tests at Atlanta
Athletes at the Olympics will get away with using a range of drugs because tests for detecting them will not stand up in court, research scientists claimed last week. At a conference called Doping in...
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Making the earth move for you
(Photograph) - One of six statues representing ways of looking at the Earth (behind) at the Natural History Museum's new Earth Gallery, which visitors access via the escalator through the rotating...
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Cultural cohorts fit for action
Cultural, communication and media studies courses do prepare students for jobs, a study into the employment of media and related graduates claims. The preliminary survey, conducted by the Standing...