Critics spy strings in the name game
An identity change is sweeping over Canadian business faculties as they continue to name themselves after major benefactors. About a fifth of the 55 business faculties in the country have either...
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IT news in brief
High wired Loughborough University has completed a £1 million five-year project to provide high-speed internet access for all its hall-based students. More than 5,100 rooms in Loughborough's 15 halls...
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Apple of Mac's eye honoured
Jonathan Ive, the designer who refashioned the personal computer with his Apple iMac, has been awarded an honorary doctorate of civil law by the University of Northumbria. Mr Ive, vice-president of...
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Spanish to design next chip
Computer multinational Compaq and Spain's Polytechnic University of Catalonia are to set up a centre in Barcelona to design microprocessors. The new research laboratory, known as Barcelona Systems...
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In the information wars, we are on the front line
"We believe we have the right to create something new." That is how one student activist described the philosophy of Otpor (Resistance), the Yugoslav student movement that played a key role in...
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Working is a class issue
Having a job in term-time is not just an academic problem, it has implications for access policies, writes Robin Humphrey. A recent study of undergraduate students covering all seven faculties (...
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Why I... believe Lorna Sage inspires by example
As a professor of literature at the University of East Anglia, Lorna Sage may have seemed like a member of the establishment, but she always had the nerviness of an outsider, of someone who was (in...
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QAA should stay its heavy hand
Proposals for an inspection regime that varies in line with top-up fees are flawed, writes Geoffrey Alderman. In a paper leaked to The THES , the Quality Assurance Agency's chief executive, John...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... David Triesman argued that the University and College Employers Association is moribund. The UCEA certainly has problems, and the higher education unions would strongly...
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Higher education awards
University of Bournemouth The following have been presented with honorary doctorates: Ian Carruthers , chief executive of the Dorset Health Authority; Bill Cotton ,former managing director, BBC...
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Student Focus: <br> A problem, and solution, shared...
A record number of students with mental health problems has highlighted the need for universities to pool their expertise in pastoral care. Leicester University is leading the way. When the...
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Student Focus: <br> Debt, designer clothes and dwindling politics
Mandy Garner looks at a major survey on student attitudes to life, work and mobile phones. Students estimate that they will be saddled with an average debt of £7,026 by the time they have finished...
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Student Focus: <br> Does home work or is it better to breakaway?
Harriet Swain finds out why more students are choosing to live at home. Dodgy flatmates and mouldy fridges tend to play as large a role in graduates' memories of their university days as the finer...
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Student Focus: <br> I'd prefer a Barratt to a garret
As the costs of higher education increase, undergraduates are demanding more for their money - and that includes better accommodation. Harriet Swain reports on how the universities are responding....
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Student Focus: Poor bums, shoddy seats
In the future, degrees could be ten a penny, while a 'prestigious' PhD might cost a mint,. Pants lined with sensors that detect and respond to changes in the body's temperature have been shown to...