Viking hell
Better not let the Government know, but Dundee University's European studies department organised a highly successful bash to celebrate European Day earlier this month. Hundreds of visitors turned up...
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Survey highlights Britain's pluses and minuses
The United Kingdom outshines five international competitors at producing highly-qualified professionals, according to a survey by the Institute of Employment Studies. But the proportion of the...
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Ecology unit eyes freedom
Edinburgh University's radical Centre for Human Ecology is considering re-establishing itself as a "Free University of Scotland" following its effective closure by the university court. The centre,...
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French fear genes release
French researchers are spearheading an initiative to get governments and international organisations to impose a moratorium on the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the...
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What some might say
The second report of the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life recommended that, where confidentiality clauses in severance agreements were "absolutely necessary", those signing them should be...
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One rule for the old and another for the new
There is one aspect of the Harris review of postgraduate work (THES, May 17) that seems to have gone almost unnoticed: the proposal to "freeze" the proportion of taught postgraduate students at...
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Throwing a spanner in the text
Physicist Alan Sokal was unconvinced by the abstractions of cultural studies. So he sent a spoof article to the discipline's leading US journal couched in the right jargon but, at heart, utter...
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Scholarships offer
Strathclyde University is offering scholarships to pupils in the most deprived areas of Glasgow, starting next session. The university has set up links with a number of secondary schools in areas...
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Fascinating losers
History may be written by the winners, but is it written about them? Keith Robbins's formidably inclusive Bibliography of British History 1914-89, recently published by OUP, lists 152 books and...
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Older intake comprises more than 40% of roll
Student profiles are ageing at virtually all United Kingdom universities, according to the latest statistics. More than 40 per cent (642,076) of the student population (1,567,313) in 1994-95 were...
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N. Ireland ponders vocational future
The Department of Education in Northern Ireland is seeking views on whether a range of vocational qualifications should be regulated by an English quango or in the province. The consultation paper,...
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Protest closes Natal campus
The University of Durban-Westville in South Africa is due to reopen on Monday, following weeks of protests and a management coup by students and staff. Since mid-May the campus has suffered violent...
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Cultural clues to student guidance
The presence of international students in higher education is becoming a significant economic force in the United Kingdom, especially as the battle for them intensifies with other western...
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Broad support for Jinnah film
Simon Targett correctly pointed out that, as an academic, I wished to avoid being "embroiled" in Pakistani politics while attempting to make a film on its founder M. A. Jinnah (THES, May 31)....
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Mother church's dissenting daughter
Lesbian theologian Mary Daly tells Lucy Hodges how she ended up in a fractious relationship with a mother church she believes has few maternal instincts Mary Daly's books are full of capital letters...