Higher channels
John Davies selects programmes likely to be of interest to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Lost Treasures of the Yangtze Valley (Sunday 11.0 Discovery Channel). The...
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For better or verse?
Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. United in marriage and now in death. ButHughes's is the poetry that will endure, argues Valentine Cunningham. The pairings-off that the canon loves so much - Homer and...
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Foucault for our time
Slavoj Zizek was once asked to run Slovenia's MI5. Jennifer Wallace meets a radically chic philosopher with a taste for realpolitik. Shit can serve as a matiere-a-penser," writes Slavoj Zizek in The...
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Dross, second rate, gobbledegook
This is how Richard Pring, James Tooley and Alan Smithers describe much educational research. So what is good research? We look at who's hot and who's not. The research pouring out of university...
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A man with the world at his web feat
Ayala Ochert meets fast-talking WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee. For as long as Tim Berners-Lee can remember, computers have been a natural part of life. His parents met while working on the world's...
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Listen up
(Photograph) - Listen up: Ste Curran (left) and Matt Wilcox, students at the University of York, are broadcasting to the whole city now that University Radio York has won an FM licence.
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Bombs away
(Photograph) - Bombs away: Chris Jones from Park Lane College, Leeds, in the review "English Eccentricities and Dream of Foreign Travel", staged in the city square last Friday. Students are showing...
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CVCP ready to take in colleges
A single body representing all higher education institutions could be created out of a wide-ranging review ordered by vice-chancellors. The review of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals...
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OU teams up with WGU for distance learning
The Open University has teamed up with Western Governors University to offer degrees in the United States. Each is putting up $4 million to create the Governors Open University System, which will...
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Women succeed by trying harder
Researchers at the University of Sussex have established why, on average, women get better degrees than men. "Our finding is that they do better because they work harder," Ruth Woodfield said. The...
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Tailor courses to work needs, says Coldstream
Academic courses are too full and degrees should gear learning towards work, said Patrick Coldstream, visiting professor at the Institute of Education. He said undergraduates are expected to master...
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In the news
What can Sir William Taylor offer the beleaguered Thames Valley University? Perhaps a little bit of MBWA. A man who likes initials, Sir William was appointed last week as acting vice-chancellor of...
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Student demos sweep across Europe
Tens of thousands of students took to the streets across Europe this week as part of an international week of action. Students were due to march through London on Wednesday to protest against tuition...
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Tribunal told of 'cabal' at Edinburgh University
A former Edinburgh University professor has told an industrial tribunal that there was a sense in which Edinburgh's social anthropology department was run by an "inner cabal". Judith Okely, now...
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College pays Pounds 100,000 to widow of employee
The widow of a former college employee has won Pounds 100,000 compensation after her husband died of lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Margaret Lord was awarded the compensation after...