Managers get more macho
The shiny new face of further education with its caring nature and liberal outlook is challenged by fresh research that has uncovered a "disturbing" and growing trend towards a harder-edged masculine...
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Snake charmer
(Photograph) - Snake charmer: The Cambridge Natural History Society held its annual Conversazione in the department of zoology last week. The 100 exhibitors included local naturalists, schools and...
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Superstore plan boosts peaceline campus
The University of Ulster's planned peaceline campus in West Belfast has received a surprise boost from the retail sector. F A Wellworth, one of Northern Ireland's leading chainstores, has announced...
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Bangor export program
Computer programs developed at Bangor University to improve dyslexic's linguistic skills are now being used in Romania to teach English to local children. Xavier Educational Software, a small...
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Mentors prove to be fine guides
Nearly 90 per cent of students on mentoring schemes say that their self-confidence has grown and 30 per cent say that their academic work has improved as a result. The National Mentoring Consortium...
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Depression hits young in the West
The post-war era has witnessed "substantial increases" in the rate of psychosocial disorders in young people across Europe and North America, according to a report by top psychiatrists and...
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Study focus on Welsh poverty
Poverty is a major problem in rural Wales, according to Mark Goodwin of Aberystwyth University's Institute of Earth Studies. He has just completed a survey of 1,000 households, and has found that up...
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Tapes cut child stress at trials
A -month investigation into the effectiveness of videotaping children's evidence has found that the tapes are succeeding in reducing the stress faced by children in trials, but do not appear to be...
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Australia's guests want to stay on
Almost half of Australia's 45,000 foreign students hope to remain in the country as immigrants after completing their courses, according to a survey by a team of five academics. The team surveyed...
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Call for more cash to go east
Ex-research minister Paul Kruger has called on the German federal government to provide special funds in order to boost the expansion of higher education and industrial research in eastern Germany,...
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Bonn is blamed for German retreat
The president of Germany's Rectors' Conference, Hans-Uwe Erichsen, has blamed state and federal governments for the country's loss of its international lead in qualifications and research. Addressing...
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Island sun, sea, sand and . . . studying
Erasmus students on their year abroad on the island of Reunion are tanned and happy. This French Overseas Department in the Indian Ocean is what one student describes as an "unknown tropical paradise...
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Taking a lead in lecturer training
In your report of the Confederation of British Industry conference on National Vocational Qualifications for teachers and lecturers (THES, May 26) you quote Dominic Cadbury's statement to the effect...
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A bid for more forethought
The Higher Education Funding Council for England recently invited all higher education institution to submit bids for projects to extend the teaching year with a third semester. This is not the first...
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For the records
May I suggest that in between phrases like "I am looking towards running the library far more as a business unit," Emma Robinson, head of the University of London Library, also notes her "passion for...