Lisburn college eyes west Belfast centre
A second Ulster college has entered the fray to provide further and higher education in west Belfast. The scheme could encroach on the University of Ulster's plans for a "peaceline" campus at...
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Glasgow leads brain gain
Glasgow University is at the hub of a new international consortium which aims to advance understanding of brain injury and its treatment. Head injury is a major cause of death of young adults in...
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How exams reflect life
It seems to be agreed that traditional exams, whatever their failings, are at least one of the more objective forms of assessment (THES, June 7). Much criticism is based on the idea that they are "...
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Staff oppose degree move
Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education has taken a further step towards full university status by announcing that it will offer its own degrees for courses starting next academic year. The High...
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Harsh words miss Harris's point
I am sorry that Anthony Cohen (Opinion, THES, June 28) felt it necessary to address the recommendations of the postgraduate review, which I chaired, in somewhat intemperate language, particularly...
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Cash back pledge is too late
The Canadian province of Alberta's government is reinstating some of the 21 per cent of cuts to higher education it has made in its past three years in office. The Progressive Conservative Party has...
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Blossoms nipped in the bud
Stopping new universities doing legitimate university work is wrong Few universities in the United Kingdom are older than 200 years and only two of these are English. When England was industrialising...
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How Latin can be music to the ears
Long-suffering students at the University of Munster in Germany once named a campaign against compulsory Latin exams for many degree subjects "Latinum in Latrinam!" Lecturer, Karl-Heinz von...
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Dreadwood
This week's award for spreading alarm and despondency goes to the public relations office of the University of Wales, Cardiff which has issued a press release under the horrifying headline "Redwood...
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Out of this world
In the second of our series on favourite films, Ian Christie describes how he overcame critical prejudice against Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death I've come to realise that my...
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Survey eyes PhD career paths
The European University Institute in Florence is to coordinate a survey of postgraduate students' employment after they finish their studies. The initiative follows a conference of 80 academics,...
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Turbines turn on British white heat of technology
Materials scientists in Cambridge and Wales are designing high-performance materials that could give British aeroengine makers the edge over competitors abroad. Project leader Colin Humphreys of...
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CVCP gets ahead with a haircut
(Photograph) - The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has become that much harder to dismiss as a body for the staid and conventional with the election of Mike Fitzgerald, vice chancellor...
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Centre stage
James Dunbar-Nasmith, emeritus professor of architecture at Heriot-Watt University, can perhaps style himself a "theatrical knight" following the Queen's Birthday Honours. Sir James, who was for ten...