Jo Rusco
(Photograph) - Saving face: Jo Rusco paid her way through a Manchester Metropolitan University sociology degree by face painting.
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The big sleep
(Photograph) - The big sleep: students from Plymouth University staged a sleep-out last month to highlight student poverty and raise funds for the student union's community action programme and to...
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The new social class categories
1 Higher professional and managerial occupations 1a Employersand managers, company directors, health service managers, bank managers 1b Higher professionals Universityand collegelecturers, scientists...
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SBS
We are happy to point out that SBS is not funded by trade unions, contrary to what was said in The THES diary on November . We apologise for this error.
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Students behind bars
Students in 1998 are working too hard in order to make ends meet - and, when they get around to relaxing, are likely to prefer the less demanding end of popular culture to the high-minded stuff their...
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Spelling shaky, history dodgy, football sound
Most students will be relieved when hereditary peers are booted out of the Lords - because they cannot spell hereditary. But the THES/MORI poll showed that students do have some sense of history -...
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Marine panel keeps head above water
Radical changes to the number and make-up of panels are expected for the second round of the government's Foresight programme, which aims to identify growth areas in science, engineering and...
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New Deal is not a good deal for the taxpayer
The government's New Deal for the unemployed is the most expensive way to get young people back into work, according to the Conservatives. Damian Green (pictured), shadow minister for further and...
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Contestant shortlist for University Challenge
Twenty-four universities have been shortlisted in the new University Challenge Fund competition. Chosen from 45 applications, they must now prepare full business cases by January 19. The challenge...
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Flood of applications for sciences funding
The Wellcome Trust expects more than 50 applications from university biological and medical science departments for the first round of the Pounds 600 million Joint Infrastructure Fund, which closes...
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Dance and drama gets Pounds 17 million boost
Nearly 2,500 dance and drama students will benefit from a Pounds 17 million government-funded scholarship programme over the next three years. Higher and further education minister Baroness...
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Malpractice report to be public, says Liddell
Scottish education minister Helen Liddell is calling for the publication of a report on alleged malpractice at Glasgow Caledonian University. The inquiry, led by John Darby, former vice-principal of...
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State school pupils still not making Cambridge
Initiatives to attract more state school applicants to Cambridge University have failed to make any impact on the proportion of accepted applicants, new figures show. Applications and acceptance...
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Bad managers make good university bullies
Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, said a recent study of lecturers in Wales found 18 per cent of respondents...
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Merger on cards of two European bodies
The Association of European Universities (known as the CRE) is considering a merger with the Confederation of Rectors Conferences of European Union States. The CRE, whose chairman is Leicester...