Fur as fashion
(Photograph) - Dorthe Christiansen, 24, a Danish fashion student at the University of Wales College, Newport, has joined the growing number of fashion designers who choose to fly in the face of...
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MPs grill Sainsbury over synchrotron site
Science minister Lord Sainsbury came under heavy fire from MPs last week over the government's controversial decision to site the United Kingdom's new Pounds 500 million synchrotron source at...
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A career under scrutiny
Colleagues of a senior lecturer at Paisley University have uncovered a remarkable series of anomalies in his CV. But Paul Coleshill, director of Paisley's Scottish Centre for European Public Sector...
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Imperial spawns one a month
Imperial College, London, is establishing new companies at the rate of about one a month, a move encouraged by the government's backing of enterprise and innovation in institutions, writes Kam Patel...
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Sources for research funding
Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this service is available to subscribers on our Research microsite at www.thesis.co.uk Each week this section lists funds available for...
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Raising aspirations - and debt
As calls to improve access to HE clash with rising student debt, Jennifer Currie asks if 'junior universities' can help. Do not worry if you keep hearing the pitter-patter of tiny feet echoing down...
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The end of turning a blind eye to need
America's Ivy League universities are fee-driven, with significant funding supplements from private donors. These provide the source for the aid packages that enable these private universities to...
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Non-participation extends far further than Oxbridge
All top universities in the United Kingdom must overhaul their admissions systems to give pupils from poor backgrounds a fair chance, a report from the Sutton Trust will say next week. Drawing on...
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Admission impossible?
As the furore over the government's attack on Oxford elitism rumbles on, THES reporters gauge reactions and ask what universities can do to improve access The furore surrounding Laura Spence is a...
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Advice for nice Natfhe
It seems David Melville, chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council, has taken up with enthusiasm the idea of closer cooperation in the sector. Paul Mackney, general secretary of...
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No O level, lots of nous
Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks was in confessional mood at Natfhe's annual conference last week, admitting that he had reached his elevated government post in spite of failing an O level in...
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The elitists exposed
Recent performance indicators published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England show Oxford and Cambridge clearly lagging behind in the proportion of young full-time first-degree entrants...
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Bristol's Dimmock MA
Charlie Dimmock has a lot to answer for. The University of Bristol has seized on the television-fuelled public demand for everything greenfingered by offering a new master of arts in garden history....
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On the move
Michael Grade, chief executive of First Leisure Corporation and former chief executive of Channel Four, is to hold the first chair of television production at the National Film and Television School...
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Glittering prizes
Golfers Seve Ballesteros and Colin Montgomerie will receive honorary degrees of doctor of laws from the University of St Andrews in July. Warwick University is to award honorary degrees to: Baroness...