Dorms offer taste of the good life
When Christian Riser told his classmates at the University of Maryland that he lived on a dormitory floor where smoking and drinking were banned, they asked him what on earth he did for fun. "People...
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Master class
Perhaps there is no such thing as bad publicity. London Guildhall, which would certainly be near the top of any league table in the field, had little difficulty hitting recruitment targets this year...
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Season's eatings
'Tis the season of goodwill and gluttony when college and campus tables groan with slabs of Christmas pudding and melt-in-the-mouth brussels sprouts. But not everyone joins in this festive time with...
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Gloucester comes to rescue campus
THE three-year battle to save Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education's redundant Gloucester campus is nearly won after a cash injection from Gloucester City Council. The council hopes...
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MIT and MUST in joint thrust
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has agreed to form a partnership with the Malaysia University of Science and Technology, the country's proposed new private university, when it opens its...
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OECD damns stats
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development has admitted that its higher education statistics are inadequate. At a top-level meeting one week before the launch of "Education at a Glance...
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Agency for Higher Education
There should be the "closest possible" co-operation on quality assurance between the proposed new single quality agency for higher education and the Teacher Training Agency, the final report of the...
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General depilation
Look out for sales of electric razors to rocket in the Bristol area should New Labour, complete with its antipathy to beards, win the general election. The five-strong top table at the press...
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Grapes of Sussex
Wine may have featured heavily in last month's festivities. But English wine? The image of English wine has not kept pace with the reality. It is a multi-million pound industry of up to 500...
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Prescription for ambition
Among current research being carried out in the nursing department at Liverpool University is an evaluation of new innovations in nursing practice. The relative success of a pilot project in which...
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Wellcome's fellow
IN CARRYING a withering review of my book, AIDS: The Failure of Contemporary Science (THES, November 15), I think it would have been fairer if you had stated that the reviewer, Jon Turney, is...
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Life in the Twiglet zone
COMPUTER SCIENCES: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY 1992 rating: 5 1996 rating: 5 Bowls of abandoned Twiglets and untouched champagne festooned the end-of-term party for Edinburgh University's informatics...
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Unstinting fast food and blue chips
Your item on the preliminary results of the 1995 graduate destinations survey (THES, August 2) released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency contained a couple of errors. The total of 177,500...
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Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. Anna Tobin provided an articulate case for arguing that "students' needs have low...
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Catastrophe for physics at A level
The argument presented by Simon Szreter on A-level grades (THES, November 17) could hardly be more misconceived. Data collected by the ALIS survey, run by Carol Fitzgibbon, professor in the...