Trek from mean streets to masters
Almost ten years after leaving the streets of Regina, Canada, where she worked as a prostitute, Sharon Acoose left the city's university with a masters degree. Under her belt was a year-long research...
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Graduates find degrees pay in jobs market
Graduates are getting a pay-back for their years at university, a study by David Armstrong at the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre has discovered. Of those earning less than Pounds 5,000 in...
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Marriages made in heaven?
The Further Education Funding Council for England has a thankless task. Like the hapless guardian of 450 teenage kids, it has to distribute inadequate pocket money, offer advice and then take the...
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Return of the natives
Lions, buffalos, elephants, rhinos and leopards - the "big five" as they are known in conservation circles - could once again prosper on the game parks of Mozambique if a major research contract...
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Critics force quality rethink
Plans for a new single quality agency and system for higher education have been revamped in response to criticisms from the sector. Fresh proposals contained in a report to be published in early...
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Nice people, when you get to know them
French anthropologist Philippe Descola tells Lucy Hodges about a lively two years spent with an isolated South American Indian tribe of wife-beaters and reformed headhunters with a penchant for...
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Double Dutch
Too late, alas, for our Howlers competition, but Strathclyde University would have been a strong contender with this offering from an environmental planning exam: "Today, Glasgow has no real function...
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Brunel ends pain in Spain on buses
Mussolini's trains ran on time in the 1930s Italy, much to the chagrin of the Spanish. Now Brunel University is helping them rival Il Duce's achievement on an arguably more recalcitrant public...
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Conveying what Mr Gibberish is driving at
Throw in a few spare parts of a Ferrari with those of an old Skoda and you have the vehicle for conveying economic news to the public, argues John Corner. Nicholas Jones's "insider" account of...
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Madness of a class-ridden system
Rising fees and a widening social divide mean that the path from graduate to academic career needs ever more money and luck, argues Geoffrey Strickland. Evidence that the expansion of higher...
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Rugger mix-up
Talking of exaggerations in the press, Gareth Roberts, chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, may be feeling less than grateful that an error in an early draft of a flier for...
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Nurses' courses in fast lane
A flood of courses in advanced nursing, often at masters degree level, may be appearing too quickly, even before a consensus has been reached about what "advanced nursing" is, a conference will hear...
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Cash call for dying species
Many natural history collections, especially in the tropics, will soon be lost forever unless money is made available for developing countries to preserve them. Richard Leakey, wildlife biologist and...
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