Jill Forbes on Simone de Beauvoir's Mémoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangée . I first came across Memoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangee in the Penguin translation published in 1963. I had just returned from a...
The market for lending to universities is buoyant, but finance directors must know how to negotiate the currents, argues Andrew Jordan. To borrow or not to borrow, that is the question . . ." At...
Lucy Hodges talks to some versatile men who know how to sell talent. Six years ago Graham Richards was a humble chemist at Brasenose College, Oxford, entirely dependent for his living on his academic...
(Photograph) - British industry is dipping deeper into its pockets in order to fund research in the old universities. Government statistics show that industry spent Pounds 131.3 million on research...
Peter Toyne is proud of Liverpool John Moores's partnerships in which money talks but academic judgement rules OK. Working in partnership with industry is the life-blood of the new universities -...
Arranged marriages often make sound business sense, argues Philip Love. In the popular view of recent history, the universities experienced a rude and long overdue awakening in the early 1980s. One...
SATURDAY. Fly from Heathrow at 7am with a brief stopover at Frankfurt and then by Ukraine Air International to Simferopol, capital of the Crimea. The flight is remarkably pleasant, as is the wine...
Lancaster University is planning to charge all its postgraduate students a "top-up fee" of Pounds 30 from 1996/97. Paul McGreal, general secretary of the student union at Lancaster, said: "This is...
(Photograph) - Entente cordiale: French poet and critic Jacques Roubaud (centre) relaxes after giving the inaugural Saintsbury lecture at Edinburgh University. The departments of French and English...
CARDIFF INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. European funds. T. Dakin, Pounds 820,000 from the European Union (LINES, project using Internet to improve communications between college databases throughout...
SCRE. The Scottish Council for Research in Education has awarded fellowships to the following: Ian Morris, former head of the research and intelligence unit of the Scottish Office Education...
ANTIQUITY TO ABSTRACTION. An exhibition of Lancaster University's art collection will be shown at the Peter Scott Gallery until December 1 (Monday to Friday: 12pm to 5pm; Thursday 12pm to 5pm and 6pm...
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE. Janet Bainbridge, divisional leader in chemical and biotechnological sciences, professor of biotechnology and food science. UNIVERSITY OF DERBY Professorships have been...
SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Garth Foster, chairman for the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union, has been appointed head of the environmental sciences department at the...
(Photograph) - This table, compiled by The THES, lists the outcomes of the teaching quality assessment exercise carried out in English universities and colleges by the Higher Education Funding...