Queen's gadfly bitten
Queen's University Students Union - long the scourge of the institution over its saga of job discrimination cases - has itself come under criticism over fair employment. Official figures after an...
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Overseas PhDs in UNL row
A leading Indian academic has complained to the British High Commission about the treatment of three overseas PhD students whose research programmes were thrown into chaos when their supervisor lost...
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Rude Health
Neither Freudian slip nor typographical error, contrary to speculative angst in Antithesis (THES, August 23). "Middlesexy" is the name of Middlesex University's innovative sexual health promotion...
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Not getting anywhere
Roger Scruton's addendum to his article on animal rights (THES, August 30) does nothing to further his case, first because it is based on unargued assumptions and second because it misses the central...
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Tales of woe from the researchers
THES reporters turn the spotlight on the working groups set up so far by Sir Ron Dearing as part of his inquiry into the future of higher education. Sir Ron Dearing's probe into the country's...
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Record numbers gain access at Dundee
A record number of unqualified young people have been accepted by Dundee University after completing a rigorous ten-week access programme. At a special "graduation" ceremony, 57 of the 72 students...
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Conversion courses a catalyst
Your correspondent (THES, August 23) reports the welcome news from the Higher Education Funding Council for England that entry to engineering courses has been boosted by higher introduction...
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Cuts focus moneyspinning minds
MELBOURNE. Australian universities generate almost 45 per cent - more than Aus$3 billion (31.5 billion) - of their operating revenues from non-Commonwealth sources but because of budget cuts they...
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Nurse teachers fight pay deal
As Scotland's 12 colleges of nursing and midwifery this week join the higher education sector, nursing teachers are in danger of becoming second-class citizens, the union Unison has warned. Six...
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THES price rise
The price of The THES goes up to Pounds 1.10 this week. This is its first price rise in two years despite increases in newsprint costs of 75-80 per cent. Subscriptions will remain at the old price...
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Chip shop
Relative proximity to Silicon Valley must be responsible for the following conversation overheard in a North Beach bookshop in California: "Yeah, he's homeless". "You don't say!". "That's right, he...
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Dying for a fag? Yes, says critic
Cigarette advertisers are capitalising on images of entrapment and oblivion, a Scottish academic claims. Alastair McIntosh of Edinburgh University's Centre for Human Ecology argues +that the health...
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BSE on the run
The Wellcome Trust says the BSE epidemic in Britain is in rapid decline and predicts that even if culling does not take place, the epidemic will fade towards extinction by 2001. The trust adds,...
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Mobility of Irish and Jewish immigrants
This month's prize for Sheer Academic Shamelessness goes to Ceri Peach ("A Question of Collar", THES, August 23). He calmly admits that there is no evidence for a central part of his highly...