Scots FE spreads net
The number of full-time higher education students in Scottish further education colleges has more than doubled in under five years, according to the Scottish Office . Numbers rose from 9,216 in 1989/...
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Utterly scrabbled
Production quality being one of those things that worries academic and other authors, Canadian publishers DPLU, whose stand at this week's World History Congress at Montreal informed participants...
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Natfhe threatens strike on contracts
College enrolment week, which starts on Monday, faces disruption in some parts of the country because of strikes by lecturers over contracts. Lecturers' union Natfhe is co-ordinating the action and...
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Count on it
Inefficient administration can have its benefits. Overheard recently on one South African university campus was the following exchange: "Aren't you worried about compulsory redundancies, given the...
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Nuclear family
Congratulations to a bunch of particle physicists from 34 institutes who published a major paper on quarks and have now managed to amass one citation for every institution, according to Science Watch...
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Sculptured form
(Photograph) - Sculptured form: Yuko Tabata from Japan at the summer school of Slade School of Fine Art, part of the University College, London
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Ex-director admits lack of skill
A key player in the Government's heavily criticised privatisation of the Skills Training Agency in 1990 has now admitted that the move was a failure. At the time of its sell-off, STA boasted a...
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Cleanliness gets closer to costliness
A detailed study of household hygiene habits has led economists from Leicester University to predict that domestic water use in south and eastern England will rise by an average 40 per cent over the...
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Guardian of OU ethos
A chance meeting with Michael Young, founder of the Open University, at the University of Botswana's extra-mural department in 1975 sealed the fate of Mary Thorpe, who is the new and first female...
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Getting poorer by degrees
Do Scottish students drop out or not take up courses because of hardship or lack of support? The THES asked some. A Scottish helpline to match Highers results against course vacancies has revealed...
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Bringing up baby to avoid cot death
Preventing cot death is the aim of a Pounds 450,000 specialist unit established at Bristol University's Institute of Child Health. Supported by The Foundation for Study of Infant Death and the Anne...
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Pasqua's private problems
France's first private "university" - the brainchild of former interior minister Charles Pasqua - opens on September 4 for just 100 to 200 students after an investment of Fr1.2 billion (Pounds 156...
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Outrage at shoplifting guide
It is hard to say whether Rabelais would have been amused. Certainly no one in authority was when the editors of a La Trobe University student newspaper named after the great French satirist...
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Volcano's early warning
Lucia Civetta lives in something approaching heaven for a vulcanologist. A lecturer in geology and vulcanology at Naples University, she is also the director of the Vesuvius Observatory, which...