The English and the others
Bernard Crick argues that we already have a quasi-federal state - it's called Britain. The current angry chauvinism springs only from English, not British, angst. Whenever I read a report of a...
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Food feuds: a safety issue to chew over
Tim Lang, Erik Millstone and Mike Rayner send a memo to the prime minister on why international experience suggests he should set up a new food agency. Now the general election has passed, the new...
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Swan's song of Chairman Mao
Jung Chang is taking the art of history writing from the familial to the global with her biography of Mao. Lucy Hodges talked to her about it. Later this month - just weeks before Hong Kong reverts...
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Research papers
Research papers relating to the stories on this page (where indicated) can be found through THESIS. The THES Internet Service is: http://thesis.newsint.co.uk
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/6 reveal that: *31.8 per cent of all academic staff are female *57.4 per cent of academic staff are employed on a permanent contract *29.5...
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Quango kills off La Sainte Union
La Sainte Union College in Southampton is to be shut down following the Teacher Training Agency's decision to withdraw accreditation from its teacher training courses. A new college will be opened on...
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Britain 'needs overseas clarity'
Britain needs a more coherent policy for overseas higher education, the British Council has said. Such a policy should encourage universities and colleges to think more carefully about the curriculum...
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Patten heads for Lords
John Patten, secretary of state for Education and Science until 1994, was one of two former education secretaries given peerages this week. Mr Patten accompanies 20 other new peers including Kenneth...
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Pay costs from tax, say rich
Huw Richards outlines the results of the THES/MORI poll of voters' attitudes to higher education. How important an issue would you say that higher education is in determining which political party...
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Down the drain
(Photograph) - Msggi Morris, of Liverpool University's School of Architecture and Building Engineering, goes 'into the sewers of Liverpool' as part of a series of events organised with the City of...
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Glasgow warns 'passengers'
Glasgow University academics with a poor research record could lose their jobs following a Pounds 2-million drop in research funding. Sir Graeme Davies, Glasgow's principal, says there will be a "...
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St Hilda's holds out as female bastion
Male academics will not be allowed to join St Hilda's College, Oxford, despite a majority vote in favour of changing the 100-year-old rule. The college's financial difficulties will intensify as a...
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Wellcome gets frosty over lab costs
The Wellcome Trust warned this week that it would consider withdrawing funds from universities in the United Kingdom if medical research charities were forced to contribute to university laboratory...
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Voters back growth...
VOTERS want to see universities expand after the general election. But academics do not. The views of voters in a poll conducted for the THES by MORI clashed on two key issues with those of academics...
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Voters back growth ... so may Dearing, but in FE
Sir Ron Dearing has called for a report on how more working class students can be attracted to higher education. The report, just completed by David Robertson, head of policy development at Liverpool...