Highfliers: Steven Lister and Steven Little
(Photograph) - Highfliers: Steven Lister (right) and Steven Little are part of the team of final-year students from the University of Humberside that has won the British Model Flying Association's "...
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Scone in a jam
The excitement over the impending return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland has been slightly tempered by learned articles explaining that the Scots actually nicked it from Ireland. When Irish...
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Fight for certificate without errors
Students pay towards their higher education and want value for money. THES reporters look at the university appeals system and what happens when degree courses are not all they were advertised to be...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Travel from Lagos to Ibadan. Have to wait until today because the highway is infested with armed robbers at night. Read a newspaper article explaining that the police are powerless, since...
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Checking links of quality and funding
Would a tie-up between excellent teaching and extra funding be a valid and fair system? Stephen Court investigates the unevenness in key HEFCE findings. Should funding be linked to high-quality...
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Spinning discs
Following on from the British disease comes the Celtic virus. If the Research Assessment Exercise produces bizarre outcomes for certain institutions, the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Reluctant Protestants
Bob Scribner doubts that Luther (below) or his reforms were eagerly embraced by most Germans. Only a few years ago an A-level history student would have accounted for the Reformation in terms of the...
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Experience is the best teacher
Universities have come in for criticism because of their increasing use of postgraduate tutors to "mop up" the less illustrious teaching tasks. More and more undergraduates find themselves under the...
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Massacre denied a page in history
Tim Cornwell reports on a challenge to the Jewish Holocaust. When the Nazis came to test the gas that they would use in their death camps, they chose 250 Gypsy children as the guinea pigs. In fact,...
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The natives are restless
The customers - hateful as the term may be to many - are getting stroppy. What with citizens' charters, an increase in students' financial commitment as grants dwindle, and a growth in litigiousness...
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Great Scott
Strathclyde University is hoping for an action-packed graduation ceremony next week, announcing that Scottish Claymores American football player Scott Couper will pick up his PhD in pure and applied...
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Tony award
No career worries for Tony Blair, should his political hopes not come to fruition. Having permitted 14 pictures of himself to appear in Labour's 40-page manifesto document, he undoubtedly has the...
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Degrees in a class of their own
Mass higher education calls for a rethink of the honours classifications, argues Peter Wright A decade or so ago critics of British education sometimes described the system as a "pyramid of failure...