Hogmanay kiss mixes emotions
Wanseo Koo's introduction to the traditional British Christmas dinner was a festive Yorkshire pudding. Mr Koo, a Heriot-Watt student from South Korea, spent Christmas with friends whose oven broke...
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Loneliness of overseas students at Christmas
Loneliness is the biggest problem faced by foreign students forced to spend the Christmas holidays in this country, according to Chris Ng, international student secretary at the University of...
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Courtesy code to stop turf wars
The British Council's marketing watchdog has moved to prevent turf wars between universities and colleges operating overseas. A tough code drafted by the Educational Counselling Service bans...
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Bids invited for virtual shops
Prospective students will be able to shop for higher education in a virtual mall next year. The United Kingdom Higher Education Mall will present users with a computer-generated mall, or centre,...
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Aerospace university 'has a right to its title'
Geraldine Kenney-Wallace, vice- chancellor and managing director of the British Aerospace University, faced questioning over her company's use of the title university at a Lancaster conference this...
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Cambridge rejects accountability rules
Accountability measures recommended by Cambridge University's internal standards watchdog have been rejected by the governing council. The council voted against recommendations made earlier this year...
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Glasgow bids for brains
Educationists can take little comfort from a MORI word-association survey among adult Glasgwegians. For 73 per cent, "education" was associated with "school"; for 43 per cent, it was "boring". The...
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Umbrella body is to open libraries to wider public
The government has set up a national body for libraries, museums and archives that should bring greater cooperation between university and public libraries. Fred Friend, director of scholarly...
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The THES Diary
Wealthy and wise Dame Barbara Cartland was only too happy to oblige when the Royal Society of Arts invited her, along with other prominent figures, to comment on what "wealth" means to her for an...
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Horses on course for Nikes
Horses might soon be queuing up for the latest Nike Air trainers, say researchers at De Montfort University. They are about to launch a major research programme to study the links between physical...
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Butterfly colours set for camouflage
The wings of iridescent butterflies are shaped like Christmas trees and this gives the creatures their colours, according to researchers at the University of Exeter. Butterfly wings are covered in a...
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Moscow
MBA courses are booming in Moscow as a shrinking job market fuels a drive for graduates to gain higher qualifications. Private western colleges and organisations such as the British Council, which...
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Bliss on the balance sheet
Gross happiness levels will replace GDP as a key social indicator, Andrew Oswald argues The politician's staple notion - try to maximise material progress - is now redundant. Britain is going to have...
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Readers' reactions
Rick Rylance, Secretary of the Council for College and University English Last week in The THES Diane Purkiss suggested we needed a British version of the Modern Language Association The Council for...
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The charity, Crisis
Once called Crisis at Christmas, Crisis changed its name ten years ago to stress that it was hard at work in every season. All too often the charity,dedicated to helping single homeless people who...