Glasgow University
Glasgow University is a prizewinner for its visitor centre, the first in the country, and a symbol of the university's determination to become more open to a wider public than staff and students. "A...
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Durham-University
Designing a self-righting buoy or packaging for emergency medical supplies to be dropped by parachute are just two of the projects which have engaged the minds of young people in the north-east...
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Poplars wins EU popularity stakes
Encouraging Europe's farmers to diversify into forestry is the aim of the Pounds 1 million Beam Project, funded by the European Union, and based at the school of agriculture and forest science at the...
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Mums get white meat warning
Babies are being denied vital nutrients by mothers who feed them fish and chicken rather than red meat, according to a study at Surrey University. The research, by Jackie Stordy and Jane Morgan,...
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Talks over ideas right
University industrial liaison officials last week met representatives from leading companies that fund research as part of a series of talks aimed at establishing new arrangements for ownership of...
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Canadian trinity
As well as some excellent universities, Canada can claim to have given the world two of this century's sharpest academic wits, with John Kenneth Galbraith following in the footsteps of Stephen...
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Chartering a smoother course
I read with interest Jim Parlour ("Charters which change little", Opinion, THES December 30). While I would agree that the Department for Education and the National Union of Students charters...
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Poll to tax the brain
You report the results of a MORI poll and a readership poll (THES, January 6) that include the statement "students from well-off families should contribute to tuition costs". The majority of a sample...
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All right, said Fred
Just because he declared that God is dead and was the initiator of the post-modern period does not justify The THES ("Finding one's own Nietzche" Letters, January 6) adopting the psuedo-metaphysical...
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Constructed criticism
In trying to marginalise the sociology of scientific knowledge into its own little ghetto, Steven Weinberg ("A zing of truth", THES, January 6) asserts what he takes to be a forceful analogy -- that...
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Carrying on regardless of students
Simeon Underwood highlights inconsistency in assessments When all the world and the quality assessment exercise were new, one of the few enjoyable features for us administrators was the response of...
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Sharing ideas in accounting
Two recent developments might help to reassure Mr Stittle (THES, December 30) and others who feel concerned about the state of accounting education. The first is the establishing of a Special...
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Distractions of saving the worm
The Christmas break is now the only time when a university comes to a halt. The contrast between this all-too-brief few days and the rest of the year is all the more marked because the intense, often...