Myth belonging to another age
British universities may be moving closer to their European counterparts in terms of numbers, but one aspect of university life remains different. The British system has been premised on the notion...
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Winning at the board name game
The new board of the new further education body representing the nation's colleges met for the first time this week. Few new boards can have faced such wide opportunities or heavy responsibilities....
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ILEA jewel theft
Fewer courses and higher fees have tarnished London's "jewel in the crown" adult education service, according to a report by lecturers' union Natfhe covering provision since the break-up of the Inner...
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Gaelic praise
Irish president Mary Robinson praised the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, a shared study programme between universities of Strathclyde and Aberdeen and Trinity College, Dublin, at Strathclyde's...
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Tony award
No career worries for Tony Blair, should his political hopes not come to fruition. Having permitted 14 pictures of himself to appear in Labour's 40-page manifesto document, he undoubtedly has the...
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Red bricks and mortar-boards
(Photograph) - Red bricks and mortar-boards: new arts and humanities graduates received their degrees at Birmingham University this week.
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Great Scott
Strathclyde University is hoping for an action-packed graduation ceremony next week, announcing that Scottish Claymores American football player Scott Couper will pick up his PhD in pure and applied...
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Complaints cost hard cash
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Court out
Alumnus to be proud of No. 57 is currently featured in a clearing bank advertising campaign which displays him in legal dress and announces that he would have "ended up in court" without the...
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Victims of Troubles need help for trauma
The psychological costs of political violence in Northern Ireland are only now beginning to emerge, according to research by a University of Ulster psychologist. Marie Smyth warns that whatever the...
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The natives are restless
The customers - hateful as the term may be to many - are getting stroppy. What with citizens' charters, an increase in students' financial commitment as grants dwindle, and a growth in litigiousness...
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Shame about the media
The account given by Christopher Brumfit and Rosamond Mitchell from Southampton University of how their research on "grammar" was handled by the Economic and Social Research Council (THES, June 28)...
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Massacre denied a page in history
Tim Cornwell reports on a challenge to the Jewish Holocaust. When the Nazis came to test the gas that they would use in their death camps, they chose 250 Gypsy children as the guinea pigs. In fact,...
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Student debts rise
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Cancer breakthrough
Survival rates from large cancers of the breast could improve because of a new technique that may enable doctors to tailor chemotherapy to individual patients, a meeting heard this week, writes...