All the world's no longer Will's stage
Only one third of major American colleges now require their English majors to take a Shakespeare course, according to a recent survey. The finding has fuelled concerns that the great authors are...
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From a rock to a soft place in QuickTime
Images digitally stitched together into wrap-around panoramas make for a dramatic virtual field trip, Susan Nowak discovers. Imagine being able to walk around the mouth of a live volcano which may...
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Building a team for the future
A recent report from the Construction Industry Board has recommended the setting-up of a common foundation course for building industry students, in response to damning criticism of the United...
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Tuition fees make their mark
The collapse of eastern Europe has shown state-run industry to be a failure, is it the same for state-run universities? THES looks at the competition. The private University of Witten-Herdecke is a...
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Record numbers gain access at Dundee
A record number of unqualified young people have been accepted by Dundee University after completing a rigorous ten-week access programme. At a special "graduation" ceremony, 57 of the 72 students...
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Thanks, but no thanks
Now the dust has settled over the question of the next secretary-general of the United Nations, we can reveal one name that was not going to get very far, at least if its owner had anything to do...
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BSE research boost
The Office of Science and Technology has earmarked Pounds 17 million from the 1997/98 science budget for research into BSE and related diseases, including scrapie in sheep. Science minister Ian...
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Graduate joblessness doubles
Job prospects for French graduates have worsened sharply with the number of unemployed one year after graduation soaring from 13 per cent in 1990 to 26 per cent in 1995. This and other findings in a...
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Keep the bright sparks burning
Should there be a national curriculum for higher education and if so what would it consist of? The national council of the Training and Enterprise Councils is moving that way, with its demands that...
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A fearless arbiter of competing interests
Christopher Kenyon, newly appointed chairman of the higher education quality agency, sets out his agenda. As the squeeze on higher education funding tightens inexorably with no foreseeable prospect...
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Tough nut with a sweet centre
Birmingham colleges are merging learning resources in a state-of-the-art library, Debby Raven reports. The designers of the new learning resources centre in Birmingham had a tough brief: design a...
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Who gets paid most
Vice chancellors and medics may dominate the top end of the pay tables but the highest paid academic in Britain is a faculty member at London Business School, who pulled in between Pounds 150,000 and...
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Strike urge
Lecturers' union Natfhe has announced that it will ballot its 18,000 members in the former polytechnics and HE colleges, urging them to vote for industrial action over this year's 1.5 per cent pay...
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School report to government
Those of us with an interest in teacher training are nervously waiting to see what an incoming government might have in store for us. In the past decade reform has followed reform, more often, it...