Adding an annexe to the ivory towers
When The THES came into the world, the UK taught 446,000 students in a higher education sector that included 45 universities. Now there are 1.5 million students and 105 universities. Michael Shattock...
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Those 1,300 weeks in brief
1971 First issue of THES October 15 Bristol planning to introduce two-year pass degrees Margaret Thatcher, secretary of state for education and science, trying to reform student unions South Bank...
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The ism that spawned a momentary glee
If universities have changed enormously in the past quarter century, so too have the ideas that are taught in them. Peter Aspden considers academia's flirtation with postmodernism. It was a word that...
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Redecorating Britain in a deep shade of blue
If universities have changed enormously in the past quarter century, so too have the ideas that are taught in them. Richard Cockett assesses the influence of the new right. The year 1971 was a...
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Grants
Nottingham Trent University. Professor A. Cobb and the department of life science, Pounds 112,000 from the Home Grown Cereals Authority (three-year assessment of potential risks to crops and...
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The Darwin impresario
Marxism's decline has been followed by a link up between evolutionary biology and social science which should produce startling insights into human behaviour, argue John Ashworth and Helena Cronin....
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Coup for 'coffee jar' monitor
British scientists hope to use data from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland last week to predict volcanic hyperactivity months before an eruption. For the team from the University of Durham, the...
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Jesus College, Cambridge
(Photograph) - The new library at Jesus College, Cambridge offers a vision of the digital library as a haven of quiet study and peaceful order amid the chaos and frenetic pace of the Internet. The...
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Doctors have a good feel
Trainee doctors are to experience the ups and downs of dealing with patients earlier following complaints that their degrees are too theoretical. New medical students at Liverpool University will...
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Enrolment overrides government capping
The number of students in higher education has grown considerably despite the Government cap on university intakes, according to the latest statistics. The Higher Education Statistics Agency Data...
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Plant fibres find a home in industry
Plant-based products could come out of the laboratory and into industry if a collaborative research project, part supported by the Government's Technology Foresight programme, is successful. The...
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Security agents harass strikers
Nigerian security agents are harassing lecturers and leaders of their banned union in an attempt to break a strike that closed the country's 38 universities. Assisi Assobie, national president of the...
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Middle age cash spread
I am all in favour of academic freedom and democracy and frequently tell my elders and betters they are wrong. But G. R. Evans (THES, September ) should not delude herself. The principal reason why...
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. . .while Welsh rocket
Enrolments in Welsh further education rose by 9.8 per cent over 1994/95 levels, the Further Education Funding Council for Wales 1995/96 annual report shows.
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Hot spot: Bardhabunga volcano
(Photograph) - Hot spot: Durham scientists hope to gather the best information ever on an eruption from a monitoring device placed two kilometres from Bardhabunga volcano just weeks before it erupted...