Patients reject student rounds
THE GREATER number of medical students in teaching hospitals is putting pressure on patients who in turn are withdrawing goodwill, it has been claimed. Derek McLaughlan, chairman of the British...
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Take a bet on Bolton
You report that Gillian Shephard has asked the Privy Council to speed up the process of conferring university status on Bolton Institute (THES, January 3). Worthy as Bolton is, this represents a...
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Tax dodge robs students of vote
STUDENTS may be robbing themselves of the chance to vote in a misguided attempt to avoid paying council tax. Although students are exempt from paying the tax, a conflict arises for those who share a...
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Cambridge campus
Cambridge University unveiled its masterplan for a West Cambridge campus this week. Vice chancellor Alec Broers said that development on the 150-acre site would "allow the university the space and...
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The snoozy life at the big snoop
After staking out private detectives for two years, Martin Gill and Jerry Hart have returned safely to Leicester University's Scarman Centre. They believe that they are the first academics to dip...
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Citizenship is not just cricket, teachers warn
Michael Portillo believes that military discipline and good citizenship go hand in hand. But Carol Nahra finds that teacher trainers are not so sure No political party wants to be seen to be ignoring...
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Glasgow wins world crown
GLASGOW University's student debating team of Derek Sloan and Andy Hume has won the World University Debating Championships at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Mr Sloan, a fourth-year...
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A woman's place is on the street
Are field trips too arduous for women? Olga Wojtas reports from the Royal Geographical Society in Exeter. Homeless women's views of home are being investigated by a Reading University postgraduate....
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Universities split over share-out
THES reporters examine the fall-out from the research assessment exercise now that funding weightings are known FUNDING weightings attached to grades awarded in the latest research assessment...
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Americans show staying power in battle for status
Huw Richards talks to two men in the London hot seats of learning about Australia and the US IT WAS not so much Independence Day as Permanence Day. Last month staff at London University's Institute...
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Roots of the Ivy League
Stanford University is not an Ivy League university (THES, January 17). The Ivy League traces its origins to 1943 when the presidents of eight elite universities on East Coast of the United States...
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Business chief predicts local, vocational future
Universities would become local vocational training institutions under a higher education model which is expected to hold great sway with Sir Ron Dearing. Chris Humphries, representing the 81...
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Clinical chats in line of GPs' fire
Nearly a third of GP practices offer patients counselling, but how effective is it? COUNSELLORS using "talk therapy" in clinics are giving their profession a bad name and should concentrate on more...
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Warning over animal organs
In the week that the Department of Health was expected to publish a report supporting animal to human organ transplantation, a leading scientist warned that such transplants could result in the...
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Brum goes Pounds 1m in red
THE UNIVERSITY of Birmingham has a Pounds 1 million projected deficit for next year and is planning up to 15 job cuts, but no top-up fees. Its prospectus has gone to the printers without the "health...