From cradle to coffin . . .
Chris Johnston talks to students about the world of summer jobs. Summer is a time when university students can relax for a couple of months, but many trade the stress of assignments and exams for a...
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Test lifts bar on Mars proof
The Martian question that everyone wants answered - did the Antarctic meteorite that Nasa has claimed contains signs of ancient life really come from the red planet? - could be solved by a piece of...
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Biotech booster
Universities, firms and training organisations were this week invited to bid for a slice of a Pounds 5 million initiative aimed at supporting embryonic biotechnology firms. The Department of Trade...
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There's the rub
(Photograph) - Over the summer students are going to cathedral camps around the country to clean up - in the case of Richard Lamey, from Altrincham, Cheshire, by dusting York Minster's lectern.
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Courses require a degree of meditation
Students considering enrolling at a new residential college run by the Maharishi Foundation, which promotes transcendental meditation, were told this week to get as much impartial information as...
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Academic Sherlock Holmeses aid detectives
A university department dedicated to busting violent crime has become the focus of attention for police forces in the United Kingdom and abroad which are turning to academic sleuths to capture...
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Chance lost to cash in on UK training
British businesses are boosting the number of employees receiving formal on-the-job and off-the-job training in a bid to close the skills gap with rival international companies, according to a...
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Pounds 5.8 billion
Vice chancellors say the universities will be Pounds 5.8 billion in the red by 2005/06. They want to get the money from students - but it may not be that easy. Vice chancellors were warned this week...
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Why fallibilism is wrong for maths
Paul Ernest contrasts absolutism in mathematics with fallibilism and tries to convince us that the latter is acceptable (THES, September 6). Towards the end he denies any expectation of converting...
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Wrong answer for HE
One of the reasons why reform of student support arrangements has had so little priority in recent years can be found in The THES's interview with Education and Employment Secretary, Gillian Shephard...
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Students run riot on campus
Conflict between rival student groups at the University of Natal in South Africa has caused chaos, with running battles with each other and the police. The protests were sparked by unhappiness on the...
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Breeding ground for governors
As party conference season approaches, Alan Thomson and Huw Richards look at student politicians of past, present and future and examine the impact of mass education on politics In 1992, a fifth of...
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Glen coup
Scotland's red deer are threatenedby a Japanese breed, Juliet Vickery reports. We have, as a nation, broadly welcomed Japanese investment in Britain but there is a growing feeling that one such...
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Teachers ignored by academic recruiters
The response in last week's letters to the charge of low standards of teaching in United Kingdom universities misses the point that those in charge of recruitment discriminate against candidates who...
