Mental block
The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that very little has improved in the conditions for mental health patients in London over the past year. Paul Lelliott, director of the Royal College of...
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Greenwich awards
The University of Greenwich has earmarked Pounds 50,000 to introduce Pounds 250 tax-free scholarships for all its undergraduate courses this year. The "Millennium" awards will be presented to...
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Cash point
Glasgow Caledonian University this week opened a Pounds 4 million financial services centre, funded by a partnership with Britannia Life, which provided a Pounds 2 million loan.
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Top Welsh post
Keith Robbins, vice chancellor of Lampeter, will become senior vice chancellor of the University of Wales today. He will serve for three years and chair many of the federal university's committees,...
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A stab in the dark
Strathclyde University is aiming for the cutting edge of research with an appeal for industrial partners to develop ways of testing stab-proof vests. The department of mechanical engineering, which...
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Jungians welcomed into fold
The famous rift between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung is healing - and it is happening in Colchester, according to one of the joint holders of the country's first chair in Jungian analysis. The...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service also includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon...
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Punting for Cambridge
A summer school for inner-city, state-educated, ethnic minority pupils - with little or no post-16 education - was held at Cambridge University last week. Twenty pupils from schools in London and the...
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Outcry over bid to control patent rights
The Wellcome Trust, Britain's biggest research charity, has delayed the announcement of plans to control intellectual property rights following an outcry from universities. The charity was to...
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Arranged marriage for FE sector
A merger looks certain to take place next year between the two rival bodies representing the further education sector. The boards of the Association for Colleges and the Colleges Employers Forum will...
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Pounds 100,000 fines for missing HEFCE deadlines
Vice chancellors are to oppose plans to fine universities up to Pounds 100,000 each if they miss deadlines for sending data to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The penalty is being...
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Humane behaviour
During the past few years there has been a discernible shift in popular attitudes towards the social sciences, accelerated by government consultations about national competitiveness and technology...
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Brain boxer
Alumni to be proud of No. 5: "Nine credits shy of a bachelor's degree" may sound like a euphemism for the mental state of any one willing to climb into a boxing ring for even 89 seconds with Mike...
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Building bricks
Further education colleges are asking the Chancellor to invest Pounds 40 million a year in new and refurbished buildings to cope with growing student numbers. The Association for Colleges' public...
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The river of sorrows
The Indians of the Amazon, remnants of advanced civilisations decimated by genocide and disease, now face extinction. Claude Levi-Strauss revisits photographs he took more than 50 years ago and muses...