The woman before the cross
Sarah Coakley tells Elaine Williams why, as a feminist theologian, she believes in vulnerability before God and an eroticised notion of prayer My feminism, I think, was born on my knees." Sarah...
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Election spending promises broken
The Australian government has admitted that it intends to break a pre-election commitment to the nation's universities and slash spending on higher education. More than two months after the...
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University League Tables 1996
Entry Requirements average points: Cambridge 28 Oxford 26 LSE 24 Bath 22 Imperial 22 Birmingham 21 Bristol 21 Nottingham 21 Sheffield 21 St. Andrews 21 Sussex 21 Warwick 21 York 21 Aston 20, Durham...
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Bolton to bolt ahead on status
Bolton Institute, the unlucky loser in John Patten's 1994 moratorium on university status, has been offered a fast track to upgrading. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and...
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Exit staged
(Photograph) - Exit staged: Why did O. J. Simpson try to run away from the police after his former wife was found murdered? "I just wanted the pain to stop," he explained to a packed debating chamber...
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No credibility in union stargazing
The president of the Association of University Teachers warned delegates at the AUT's annual council meeting yesterday against seeking "flawless ideals" that could never be achieved. Joanna de Groot...
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Over 50s face chop at Notts
Multimillion pound savings are being sought at one of the United Kingdom's most successful universities, which is proposing to worsen its staff-student ratio by offering early retirement to all staff...
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Ministers warned off labs
The Government should reconsider moves to privatise public sector agriculture and plant science laboratories, ministers have been told. A confidential report argues that privatisation could cost more...
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Islands in advert row
Nottingham Trent University is to investigate the marketing and publicity strategy of Southampton Institute, whose courses it validates, after receiving complaints from the Channel Islands education...
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Face the facts: A portrait of the sculptor Marc Quinn by Florian Jaenicke
(Photograph) - Face the facts: A portrait of the sculptor Marc Quinn by Florian Jaenicke, a photography student at the London College of Printing and Distributive Trades. Mr Jaenicke is showing his...
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Clarke degree 'void'
The vice chancellor of Nottingham Trent University has received a solicitor's letter warning him that today's planned conferment of an honorary doctorate on Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor of the...
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Just write for the scientists
A New York-based psychoanalyst and writer has beaten four British academics to win the Rhone-Poulenc science book prize. Arno Karlen has fuelled the growing debate about whether writers or scientists...
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Charity cash to health falls
Charity funding for medical research has dropped for the first time in ten years, according to figures released by the Association of Medical Research Charities. Nearly Pounds 22 million was wiped...
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Staff disputes hit Anglican colleges
Two Anglican church colleges are embroiled in industrial relations upheavals involving dismissals of senior members of staff. Cheltenham and Gloucester College of 糖心Vlog has lost an...
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Cornwall to name site for campus
Cornwall's proposed new university will be designed to support "lifetime learning", Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice chancellor of Exeter University, has promised. Schools, colleges and workplaces...