Don's Diary
MONDAY. 10.00am. I am in the teaching committee. Oh dear, how dreary - but at least I'll get free coffee and biscuits. Five years ago the teaching committee was exactly what it said; a group of...
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A question of collar
Ceri Peach digests the ethnic data of the 1991 census and concludes that while Indian immigrants are following the white-collar route established by Jewish settlers, people of Caribbean origin are...
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Searching for a colourful lingua franca
An art school head is tickled pink with the results of an international study he has conducted into the everyday use of colour names in popular phrases. Colours used in phrases such as "green with...
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Access students warned off elite
Access course students are often discouraged by their own tutors from aiming for a high-ranking university place, a national survey has found. Those hoping to study law at an old university...
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Wizard idea
Nice to see that the science comedy show Modern Problems in Science was among the features offered at Fringe Sunday last week in Edinburgh. But we are a bit nonplussed about both the originality and...
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Palatable monitor makes it good to talk
One in every 600 children born in the United Kingdom has a cleft palate or cleft lip, which can lead to speech problems. Most of them respond well to conventional speech therapy, but those with...
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Design for the computer age
Dear Ron, Sorry I'm a bit rushed. Just back from a few days in Berlin. Fascinated to see a city re-creating itself. To contrast the lively west and backward east. I am struck that similar...
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Dearing questions are often historic ones
The minister announced in the House of Commons that the Government proposed an inquiry into the state of universities. A commission was set up and a series of questions were promptly sent out to...
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Casino course
Never let it be said that making it in the jobs market these days is a lottery. Lucky students at Salford University have been given the chance of a new degree with the odds of a job at the end of it...
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Peerless prof
David Currie, professor of economics at the London Business School, became a life peer in the list announced this week. Professor Currie, 49, is a member of the Treasury Panel of Independent...
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Sexy discrimination
Freudian slip or typographical error? These questions may be occupying the mind of Clare Ruby who is, according to Middlesex University's newsletter North Circular, "Middlesexy Project Development...
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Sea-borne
(Photograph) - Sea-borne: Plymouth University student Lucy Lake has reclaimed materials from the sea to make this storage unit as part of her 3D art and design degree course.
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Apologies
Further apologies to THES subscribers whose copies are again delayed by postal workers' industrial action. The latest strike was due to take place yesterday.
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Alcohol researcher sees red
A leading alcohol researcher is demanding an explanation for an academic journal's refusal to publish a book review which it commissioned from him. John Duffy, director of Edinburgh University's...
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Colleges in two-tier clearing
Universities are developing a two-tier system of degree programmes in an effort to mop up applicants to over-subscribed courses during clearing. About 10,000 new or amended courses are on offer...