Football hazy
Liverpool John Moores University staff footballers behav- ed a little more sedately when they played a new flock of Malaysian graduates of their university in Kuala Lumpur last week. But staff will...
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Business leg-up for out-of-work graduates
The University of Central England's management centre has devised a course to help unemployed graduates. Funded by the Birmingham Training and Enterprise Council, the course offers the chance to take...
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Koreas wed over butter but divorced over guns
Academics come to their subjects for a variety of reasons. For Don Malatesta of Norwich University, Vermont, the stimulus came from five years of service as a United States air force pilot in Korea...
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Military bans trade unions for academics
LAGOS. Optimism about a possible settlement of Nigeria's five-month university strike was crushed at the end of August by the sudden proscription of university trade unions. The move followed a...
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Prisoners boost figures
If Tim Cornwell (THES, August 9) had asked "how" or "why" the historically black University of Maryland Eastern Shore had most recently enrolled some 3,000 students, he might have been surprised to...
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Mr Invisible's silent entry
He has stepped silently into Eric Forth's shoes to handle a brief which takes in many education and training issues for the over-16s. To the academic community Lord Henley, the new higher education...
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Oz graduates offer tips on course rating
A graduate questionnaire used to assess the quality of university teaching in Australia is an economical method of identifying courses in need of inspection and more efficient than the British system...
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Herts of gold
Stagecoach, the bus company that has mushroomed after being launched by a humble bus conductor, has a rival. The University of Hertfordshire's student bus service has opened to local people,...
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Bungling spies may find missions impossible
The Central Intelligence Agency celebrates its 50th anniversary next year, but there are doubts over its future following the end of its chief raison d'etre - the cold war. Among the doubters is...
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Referee blows whistle on war
SANJUAN. In the remote pueblos of the Guatemalan highlands people have yet to hear of the peace accords now being signed by the government and guerrilla leaders. They are still living with the terror...
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Degree no way over racial barrier, survey finds
Graduates from ethnic minorities still face obstacles to employment despite having gained a degree, according to a study released this week. The Ethnic Minority Graduates: Differences by Degrees...
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Cheap solution ruled out
Pressure from English university heads for a cheaper quality assessment system could lead to its disintegration, Paul Clark, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's new director of teaching...
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Fingered green
Sir Ronald Oxburgh, rector of Imperial College and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, told in his presidential address of an elderly lady who asked him whether he...
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Workload and redundancies exercise brains
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. The Dearing inquiry working group on the use of...
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Dole tossed in history's trashbin
Clinton's star waxes and the CIA's wanes but Blair has not yet eclipsed Thatcher in the American consciousness. Huw Richards savours the debates at the American Political Science Association...