Household accounts circa 1300
Family values are to be explored within a late medieval context in a project bringing together scholars of English with historians and archaeologists. The interdisciplinary research team is based at...
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Malay teacher status boosted by new university
Malaysia is planning to build a university for teacher training within the next three years and is upgrading all teacher training courses to diploma level from next month. Education minister Datuk...
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Middlesex denies gagging clauses
We must protest most vigorously at your front page sensationalist headline (THES, June 7). It was not supported by the article beneath it, your own leader or the facts of the situation. It is the...
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Men without a mission
Equal job opportunity for men and women is bad for family life. Partners tend to geton better if the man is the main bread-winner during the child-rearing years, argues Geoff Dench. Most people would...
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MRC lobbies for mad cow study
The Medical Research Council has drawn up proposals for a Pounds 22 million study of mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in an effort to boost Britain's scientific expertise in the area....
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Drama hits House over artistic future
A Tory MP tackled the Government this week over its failure to address a "growing crisis" in funding dance and drama courses and students. Peter Luff, Conservative member for Worcester, told the...
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Crowe's feat
So how much has changed in the US in the 30 years since the foundation of London University's Institute of United States Studies, celebrated this week with a party at the US ambassador's Regent's...
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Fixed-terms deter the best
University teaching quality may be suffering because of problems associated with increasing numbers of fixed-term contracts, says the Association of University Teachers. The union held the inaugural...
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Respect due to British innovators
Innovation should become an academic field with its own professorships and institutes, a leading industrialist said this week. While schemes to solve the United Kingdom's old problem of poor...
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Glasgow reveals Irn constitution
The stiff upper lip has achieved particular rigidity in Glasgow, according to a United States researcher investigating the health beliefs of different ethnic groups. Carolyn Fong, professor of...
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Taxing tasks for static cabbies
A student at Universite Laval is completing a study on the occupational hazards faced by taxi drivers. Cedric Plante, a masters student in the department of community health at the Quebec university...
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Wolf is in the art studio
The painful results of the years of high inflation have been affecting academic institutions for some time. The backlog of those years of the nation's financial imbalance has now arrived with a...
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Quality chiefs prefer secrecy
Reports on universities' and colleges' quality assurance arrangements should not be made public and institutions should set their own standards, quality chiefs have proposed. The results of...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a film director who believed that we all have our reasons: "As I bid farewell to the landscape of my childhood I think of Gabrielle. Certainly it was she who...
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Speaking Volumes: Florence Nightingale to her Nurses
Jenifer Wilson-Barnet on Florence Nightingale's Florence Nightingale to her Nurses . These letters to the probationers and nurses at St. Thomas' (written between 1830 and 1900) are less well known...