Overtime fears
Forty-one per cent of men and 20 per cent of women work overtime in Britain, according to the world's largest ever study of overtime. Bob Hart and David Bell of Stirling University have found that...
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Horses for resources
Bidders for the Natural Resources Institute have been whittled down to three: Cranfield University; a consortium of Edinburgh and Greenwich universities, Imperial College and Wye College, both part...
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Take the wrap for presents imperfect
The perfect giver of Christmas presents rarely gives money, always wraps gifts and draws attention to the "ritual sacrifice" of shopping they endured in order to find them, say psychologists. The...
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Rectors as peace-brokers
The rectors of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, of the Jesuits' Gregorian University in Rome and the vice president of Cairo's Al-Azhar University met in Rome as Christmas approached to promote...
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Data interpreted
The Government has produced a handbook to help further education colleges meet the needs of business and the labour market. It will help them interpret local employment data.
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Christmas spirit
(Photograph) - Christmas spirit: Drama students on the BA course at Bretton Hall University College, Wakefield, performing a scene based on Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management at a "Festive...
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Loan chief is named
Colin Ward, assistant managing director of the Student Loans Company, is to become chief executive for three years from January 1. Mr Ward joined the company in 1990, but Sir Eric Ash, acting chief...
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Stars in their ancient eyes
Celestial bodies dictate the calendar and once stopped a war. John Barrow ponders their effect on the human race The Christmas story follows a star - or at least a triple conjunction of Saturn and...
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Object lesson
For Chinese art scholar Jessica Rawson, now warden of Merton College Oxford, object and text tell different tales. But in order to get the whole story we need both, as she explains to Simon Targett...
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Baroque and roll
What is in the musical canon - and what should be? John Davies asks music academics to nominate their noteworthy top ten. "Is there, or should there be, a canon of great works or great composers that...
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Balancing act is hard to follow
Far from a feel good factor, the expenditure cuts announced in the budget have in higher education provoked universal concern and despondency. Those affected - staff and students - are unlikely to be...
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Blair's flair for top hats
I must say that the hat you picture Tony Blair wearing on your front page, (THES December 8) is rather fetching. I wonder if he could make this his trademark, like Harold Wilson's pipe, or, since he...
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Eastwards gung ho
Wang Gungwu (THES, December 8) confuses two different arguments. One is that Asian countries must develop an intellectual orientation, possibly through changes in the educational system, which...
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Bishop's move in seat of learning
While I could not agree more with T. C. Simmonds that it is wholly inappropriate for a further education college to confer the title of professor on its staff (THES, November 24), it is important...