NUS quizzes members on student funding
The National Union of Students is launching what it describes as its most widespread and in-depth research initiative, to sound student views on the funding of education in time for its annual...
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Wanted: local heroes
The latest academic research has thrown up a a new link between those much debated phenomena; screen violence and rising crime rates. According to researchers at the London School of Economics the...
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Marks upgrade for 4,000
A new university raised the marks of over 4,000 of its students by 6 per cent because of the disruption caused by building work on one of its campuses. The move by the University of Westminster,...
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Stroppy charity gets lottery cash
The medical research charity that made the loudest fuss about National Lottery charity funding policy is the only one so far to have won a grant from its charities board. The Cancer Research Campaign...
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Number of lab animals grows
The long decline in the number of animal experiments may have stopped, reflecting the rise in the breeding and testing of animals bred with harmful genetic defects and transgenic animals, writes...
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Red letters
(Photograph) - Red letters: The main gateway of the new British Library, London, has emerged from its hoardings, displaying the lettering of David Kindersley, who died this year having been one of...
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Bank on UMIST
The leading professional banking qualification is to be given Manchester University degree status in a move which could lead to the decline of rival banking courses. The associateship of the...
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Crime, lives and videotape
David Puttnam tells Kam Patel that movie violence must influence the way people behave while Michael Winner rubbishes the idea. A team of academics is researching possible links. In Brian De Palma's...
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Chart hits?
Some geographers are getting very excited over the uses of computerised mapping systems. Others are not convinced. John Davies reports. Cartographic wonder-tool or overhyped techical gizmo? Enhancer...
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Virtual politics, as seen on TV
Did Clinton's health care reforms perish in the glare of the TV lights? ask Edwin Diamond and Robert Silverman. At one point in the mid-1990s, the number one and number two bestselling books in the...
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New ending from the history man
Francis Fukuyama tells David Walker why greater trust between people would lead to more prosperity. Alfred Schutz is not a name that appears among the many social thinkers listed in the compendious...
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The landscapesof tyranny
Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini used art to cement their power, reports. An immense building project is underway in Moscow to recreate Russia's largest church. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 30...
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Key to the door for graduates
It is ironic that at the very moment when sweetness and light has broken out on all sides in what had become a largely sterile debate about how to ensure the quality of university teaching, the real...
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Real national product
Nations differ in the way in which they organise research and development and in the way they prepare innovations for the market. Germany has long been renowned for the strength of its basic research...
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Treasury's shadow must not fall on pay
S P. Rouse is correct in the view that pay review bodies are unlikely to result in fair, professional pay levels for the higher education sector (THES, letters, October 20). It is questionable,...