The Cinderella syndrome
Nothing separates wealthy from poor students so much as summer balls. Harriet Swain reports HEDONISM is hard when you have been up since the early hours cleaning offices. But while some students this...
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Lancaster admits reckless spending
AN INTERNAL report chronicling the "reckless" management of Lancaster University, which slid into debt during an ambitious expansion programme, is being considered by the university's governing body...
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Hatton head resigns
The director of Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery resigned six weeks before the gallery was targetted for closure, in protest at the university's "stonewalling tactics", writes Alison Utley. Art...
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Eastern facts
Low participation meets blue-chip research: Phil Baty reports on the East in the latest of our regional focuses * There are 23 universities and colleges with higher education provision. There are 39...
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Peterboro' to get own university
Low participation meets blue-chip research: Phil Baty reports on the East in the latest of our regional focuses Peterborough should have its own university by next year, the local Training and...
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Maths days numbered
THE University of Northumbria could become the first large higher education institution to scrap its pure mathematics degree. It has reviewed its academic provision as part of a "rebalancing exercise...
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Virtual Gallery 97
The THES will open a virtual gallery of students' artwork during the summer vacation. Art schools are invited to submit up to ten images with written details, preferably on diskette or other storage...
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VR field trips come step closer
Edinburgh University has added to its multi-site campus with a virtual environment centre which could lead to students going on virtual reality field trips and carrying out virtual reality surgery....
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Manual staff underpaid overstressed and ignored
MARIE Conlan takes home Pounds 68 a week from her cleaning job at the United Kingdom's biggest non-collegiate university. The 30,000-student Manchester Metropolitan University pays Mrs Conlan Pounds...
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A-level reform on hold as ministers disagree
Reform of the A-level system has been put on hold for at least a year to allow wider consultation, education and employment minister Baroness Blackstone confirmed this week. It is understood that...
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Unions unite to fight role analysis
THE COUNTRY's two largest lecturing unions have joined forces in a bid to sink a new staff role analysis scheme. The Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe agreed last Friday...
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Students clueless about SMEs, and vice versa
Small firms discriminate against graduates in the job market, a study by Huddersfield University for Wakefield Training and Enterprise Council has revealed. Despite the fact that the "small and...
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Health warning on science policy formulae
Scientists must get more involved in issues of science policy if the health of European science is to be safeguarded, says Sir Dai Rees, president of the European Science Foundation. In his president...
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Feuding pawns of empire
Triumph of the Lack of Will - Croatia - The Serbs
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The 1.5-million-year-old
The Wisdom of Bones - The Neanderthal Legacy