When education is just a joke
Humour guru Joel Goodman had some prejudices to overcome when he addressed an audience at Leeds Metropolitan University recently on "The Positive Power of Humour". For the notoriously robust British...
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Scottish IT link gets Pounds 5m boost
Scottish higher education is poised to set up one of Europe's most advanced information technology networks, with a Pounds 5 million boost from the Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council. SHEFC...
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College crosses Irish divide
(Photograph) - The first cross-border further and higher education institution is opening in Northern Ireland. The Pounds 1.3 million Rural College, close to the Irish border at Draperstown, is fully...
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Degrees on offer at Sotheby's
The world-renowned auction house Sotheby's has been given Government approval for a prestigious new institute providing fine art degree courses. The centre, called the Sotheby's Institute for Fine...
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Pure genius
(Photograph) - Pure genius: Sharon Helina, lecturer in languages at Airedale and Wharfedale College in Horsforth, tells a regular at the Cardigan Arms in Leeds about a course on ordering drinks...
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Stars in their eyes and good prospects
Doctorate programmes in particle physics and astronomy attract high calibre students and those qualifying have little difficulty in getting jobs, according to a study to be published soon, writes Kam...
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Chemists raise lab alarm
Top chemists in industry and academe have warned the Government that deterioration of laboratory equipment in universities is rapidly approaching "crisis proportions" and that an urgent national...
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Greenwich blazes private funding trail
Greenwich University has become the first university to strike a deal under the Government's private finance initiative by signing a Pounds 40 million student accommodation agreement with the...
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Rabbit stew
Further to last week's revelation about THES reporter Alison Utley's status among Salford's best-known alumni comes news of the academic affiliations of her near-namesake Alison Uttley, author of the...
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Pembroke pair
Alumni to be proud of nos 17 and 18 are the chief protagonists in Dulwich College's recent travails. On the one hand Anthony Verity, college master from 1986 until last week when he was forced to...
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Guildhall gallantry
Too bad there is no funding council performance indicator for knights in shining armour, or troubled London Guildhall University might be feeling a little more optimistic. Human sciences dean Deian...
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Portillo peace
Perhaps student militancy is not as dead as we thought if the mere fact of "Portillo Visit Passes Peacefully" is considered worthy of headlining in Imperial College's student newspaper Felix.
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Jobs skills skewed
The new Modern Apprenticeship scheme is not attracting young women and people from ethnic minorities, although new evidence suggests it is proving popular with employers and young people. A report by...
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Il Duce ad nauseam
Being a high-class biographer has its costs as well as benefits. To be found dubiously contemplating no fewer than 40 bound volumes of the complete works of Benito Mussolini last week was Paul...
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Something fishy
A real catch for the Southampton Oceanography Centre must have been Dr Peter Herring, who works on pelagic biology there. Rumour has it he is known as "kipper" to his mates. But he is not alone and...