Dearing questions are often historic ones
The minister announced in the House of Commons that the Government proposed an inquiry into the state of universities. A commission was set up and a series of questions were promptly sent out to...
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Palatable monitor makes it good to talk
One in every 600 children born in the United Kingdom has a cleft palate or cleft lip, which can lead to speech problems. Most of them respond well to conventional speech therapy, but those with...
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Access students warned off elite
Access course students are often discouraged by their own tutors from aiming for a high-ranking university place, a national survey has found. Those hoping to study law at an old university...
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Searching for a colourful lingua franca
An art school head is tickled pink with the results of an international study he has conducted into the everyday use of colour names in popular phrases. Colours used in phrases such as "green with...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. 10.00am. I am in the teaching committee. Oh dear, how dreary - but at least I'll get free coffee and biscuits. Five years ago the teaching committee was exactly what it said; a group of...
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A-level madness
The blow finally fell on the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals press office last week. No, nothing to do with downsizing or rationalisation. Their real fear had always been a slow news...
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On their knees
(Photograph) - On their knees: police order students demanding reunification of North and South Korea to kneel in submission after a nine-day confrontation ended violently when police stormed the...
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Welsh wizardry grows
Three new research centres at the University of Wales, Bangor, have been recognised as centres of expertise by the Welsh Development Agency, part of a network of such centres springing up across...
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Morse code
The 1996 award for subliminally reinforcing confidence in the examination system goes to the central schedulers at ITV. On the night before this year's A-level results were released, with hopeful...
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Dundee wins grant
Dundee University's department of biochemistry, which recently held a topping out ceremony for its Pounds 12 million Wellcome Trust Building, has won a Pounds 4.5 million grant from the Medical...
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Swathe of lecturer redundancies hits Wales
Two Welsh colleges are to make the biggest set of compulsory redundancies in British higher education this year. Up to 20 lecturers and the same number of technical and support staff could lose their...
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Divorce grounds high-fliers
Children from single-parent homes are losing out in the US college stakes. Tim Cornwell reports Children born in the late 1970s, when divorce rates in the United States reached their current level of...
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Namibia buries the corpse of apartheid
Windhoek. There is a camaraderie at the University of Namibia that is a rare commodity on campuses. It may have something to do with size - fewer than 4,000 students are enrolled here - or to do with...
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Open University boss sounds cost alarm
Singapore. India can offer distance education at one-fiftieth of the cost of United Kingdom Open University cour- ses, the OU's vice chancellor Sir John Daniel has warned. Sir John questioned the...
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In the shadow of Big Sister
David Walker reports on the growing pains of men's studies. What a state we heterosexual men are in. Women and gay men have, intellectually at least, got their acts together. There is a vast...