Doctoring the degree
Aisling Irwin on doctorates experimenting with vivas and theses. Imagine a doctorate with no viva. Instead, the student must give an open defence of their thesis, which anyone can attend. The first...
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Misfits, misprints, mistakes...
Allan Reese wants to know why PhD theses still look so shoddy. The PhD thesis should be taken by the scruff of its neck and dragged into the 21st century. In the age of CD-Roms, multimedia and...
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A rock in a hard place
Susan Hawley is stretching the boundaries of theological research. Elaine Williams reports. Held up by a road block, at the mercy of bandits in the northern mountains of Nicaragua between Managua and...
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Rich remark
No signs of deficit financing at King's College, Cambridge even if the foundations of its fortune were laid by Keynes during his period as bursar. Those attending a recent fundraising event were on...
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Uninspired spelling
Always priding itself as a source of wit, vitality and new ideas, the Cambridge Union has taken up the neglected cause of spelling reform. This term's programme includes such imaginative coinages as...
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OJ speaks
Alumnus No: 48 follows in the Oxford Union's tradition that its guest speakers from the world of sport should epitomise the highest traditions of fair play, sportsmanship and above all exemplary off-...
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SHEFC pulls plug on TV pilot
Moves by Scottish higher education institutions to set up their own television channel have foundered because the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council says the scheme is not value for money. The...
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Female fillip for male bastion
The traditionally male-dominated discipline of economics is set to attack its gender gap with the creation of a new Royal Economic Society committee. The RES executive, which meets next Thursday,...
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Job value scheme takes off
A consortium of more than 100 universities and colleges has signed a contract with management consultants to develop a unique job evaluation system. The system is intended to form a new basis for...
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Queen's park scrapped
Queen's University's innovative Pounds 29 million plan for a research and enterprise park at the historic former Belfast gasworks has collapsed, writes Noel Mcadam. The hi-tech proposal had formed a...
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Week of pleasure in learning
Colleges, Government departments, the media and private enterprise are to throw their weight behind Adult Learners Week in order to drive continuing education to the top of the national agenda. This...
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Fending for future
After HEFCE's first annual meeting Brian Fender talked to Tony Tysome about planning a funding system responsive to society's needs. Sir Ron Dearing has until summer 1997 to chart a future course for...
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If I were a carpenter . . .
A carpentry and joinery foundation course for women has been chosen as an Adult Learners Week award winner jointly by the European Union Social Fund and the National Institute of Adult and Continuing...
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Pounds asks MPs for Pounds 60m
Ken Pounds, chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, has called for a Pounds 60 million fund to help it meet its financial obligations to Cern, the particle physics...
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Keyboards' end is just moves away
Keyboards could become an optional extra if City University research produces a computer that can interpret the slightest hand movement. The team includes experts in mime and computer science who...