How old is that lobster in the tank?
After seafood lovers have taken a table in their favourite restaurant and selected a fine-looking lobster from the glass tanks teeming with live crustaceans, the question of the creature's age may...
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Lisburn college eyes west Belfast centre
A second Ulster college has entered the fray to provide further and higher education in west Belfast. The scheme could encroach on the University of Ulster's plans for a "peaceline" campus at...
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Glasgow leads brain gain
Glasgow University is at the hub of a new international consortium which aims to advance understanding of brain injury and its treatment. Head injury is a major cause of death of young adults in...
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How exams reflect life
It seems to be agreed that traditional exams, whatever their failings, are at least one of the more objective forms of assessment (THES, June 7). Much criticism is based on the idea that they are "...
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Franchise row rages at Swansea
A fierce battle over the standard of overseas franchise courses is being fought between senior managers and quality assurance officials at Swansea Institute of Higher Education. Senior managers at...
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South Bank makes lecturers redundant
One seventh of all full-time academic posts at London's South Bank University are to be axed, including the first compulsory redundancies to hit the university sector. Almost half of the 84 axed...
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Jobs axe to fall in Scotland
Scottish higher education institutions are facing the loss of more than 1,100 jobs, half of them academic, if the Government goes ahead with its funding cuts for the next three years. John Arbuthnott...
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Universities' critical role in stable society
The London conference on challenges to the Dearing committee (THES, June 21), reflected in part some received and dangerously unquestioned assumptions about higher education. Discussion focused on...
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Yugoslavia counts cost of sanctions
Sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia by the United Nations have had a devastating effect on its higher education. International links are all but severed, and apart from immediate material constraints,...
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Of all the projects in all the world . . . video gets Pounds 2m
Interactive television, video megastores for home shoppers and the creation of 3D models from film and video that could place the user in Rick's Bar in Casablanca are among the areas to be explored...
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Students foot bill
Efficiency gains imposed by the Government on teacher training courses mean travel and equipment costs are being passed on to students, MPs were told this week. The extra costs could become a barrier...
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Mortar attack on the chalkface
When teacher training is used as a political football you know the election season is on. No political party can afford to blame parents for lack of discipline in schools or for poor literacy skills...
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Michelin guide to standards
J. R. Shackleton (THES, June 21) states that "restaurants are awarded Michelin stars". Michelin awards the stars following a series of unannounced visits to the restaurants. The inspectors only...