Cool for kids
(Photograph) - Amy Staunton's fashion prediction for childrens-wear in the near future won her Pounds 4,320 in this year's Royal Society of Arts student design awards. Ms Staunton, aged 21, is a...
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Professional ambitions
You report that "British-born black youngsters are being confined to an arts and humanities ghetto" (THES, January 24). When examining at the University of Singapore I was surprised to find that only...
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Shephard aims for exam parity
Clear parity between academic and vocational paths to higher education came a step closer this week as education secretary Gillian Shephard detailed "the biggest shake-up of the qualifications system...
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Foreign language teaching tips swap
A Government-funded knowledge exchange has been created to disseminate best practice in foreign language teaching in the workplace. The Network in Vocational Foreign Languages, dubbed Hevocal, is a...
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African history of hit and myths
The practice of history in the conventional western sense is a comparatively recent phenomenon in Africa, says the Nigerian historiographer G. Akin Akinola. The specialist in African histography and...
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The implausible pundits
Why do magazines and newspapers highlight the wrong academic arguments? Patrick O' Brien deplores the limited space newspapers and journals allot to book reviews For a long time I have been...
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Pupils pool brains to improve GCSEs
TEACHING children to think for themselves can dramatically improve children's exam performance, educationists at King's College, London, have shown. A study by the college's school of education...
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Science fears for Birkbeck
A projected deficit of more than Pounds 2.6 million at Birkbeck College could signal the abandonment of laboratory-based science and a wave of redundancies, it was claimed this week. The college's...
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Optometrists keep computer's eye on driving
A COMPUTER model simulating human vision could help improve road safety, University of Wales scientists believe. Researchers there are familiar with the physics and biochemistry of individual...
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Poor encouraged
Cambridge University Students' Union has launched a handbook to encourage more state school applicants. Every state sixth form will receive the Target Schools Handbook. Topics addressed include: "Do...
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Geography of success
Businesses located in strong geographical "clusters" of related industrial activity still perform better than their more isolated counterparts, despite the communications revolution, research from...
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Cambridge don rattles deans
CONTROVERSY continues to dog the Australian government's appointment of a committee to advise on the future of higher education for the next 20 years. Deans of education have called for the sacking...
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HERA for equality
I WAS saddened to read Opinion (THES, October 11) as it gave a biased and ill-informed impression of the COMCON project. The project was initiated in 1993 by a group of personnel directors and with...
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Campus asbestos row goes to court
A fierce row over asbestos risk assessment and academic responsibility has broken out between Paris's Jussieu University campus anti-asbestos committee and members of the Academy of Medicine and the...
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What's in a name?
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has set up a working group to consider what rules should govern the use of the name "university college". Its conclusions may feed into the Dearing...