Rebuilding masonry brick by brick
Masonry, the use of brickwork and stonework, was once a skilled art. Today, brick and stone block are invariably flat faced and dull. But the art of the mason could be revived, thanks to work at the...
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University College Salford's brass band in Sao Paulo, Brazil
(Photograph) - Top brass: The University College Salford's brass band is currently in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on a two-week concert tour in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Cultura Inglesa, an...
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Second thoughts on Scots mentors
The Scottish Office Education Department has postponed its controversial mentor scheme for student teachers following lack of support from schools. College of education staff fear that the scheme,...
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Designer approach to production line
Encouraging companies to incorporate design in their manufacturing strategy is the aim of Cardiff Institute's innovative Design Engineering Research Centre. Focusing on helping industry to create...
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High fibre contact could lead to cancer
Deaths from mesothelioma, the cancer of the lungs linked exclusively to asbestos fibre exposure, are set to reach 3,000 a year in this country by the year 2020. Nearly all of these deaths are likely...
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Universities ordered to repay tuition fees
Universities in Portugal are faced with having to refund students' tuition fees they paid illegally, following a council of rectors' ruling. The mistake - a misinterpretation of the 1994 tuition fees...
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Passport rush to beat oppression
The value of foreign passports among lecturers in Hong Kong has reached an all-time high, with uncertainty reaching fever-pitch among lecturers over China's plans for academic freedom after 1997....
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The vapourised and the dead
In the steaming heat of a July evening this year, 20 students at the American University in Washington were hard at work learning about the history of nuclear war. "The question is why did we drop...
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Unesco digs deep to save caveman site
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation is appealing for help to raise Pounds 1.6 million to fund emergency protection of the endangered Peking Man site in China. The money...
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A contract killing
In his vicious maligning of further education staff who have rejected the Colleges Employers Forum contract, Roger Ward (THES, July 26) demonstrates yet again the ignorant hostility that has made it...
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Barking up the New Right tree
Readers should not be misled by Harvey Kaye's superficial misconstrual of Newt Gingrich's remarkable book To Renew America (THES, July 28). Nor should they follow him in underestimating the...
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Window of research opportunity
Your report and headline "British Academy cuts PhD years" on my address on behalf of the British Academy's Humanities Research Board for Graduate Education (THES, July 28) is misleading. First, the...
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Look east, we're lagging behind
Every now and then the world's attention shifts. For much of the post-war period it focused on the Third World, on Korea and Vietnam and the struggles against colonialism. In the 1980s it was the...
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