Fat lot of good
The idea that body fat is good for you is so unfashionable these days that it is hard to believe it could be true. As a result precious little research has been done to establish the facts. Until now...
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Collaboration sweeps research
By 2000 more than half of the United Kingdom's scientific papers will each be produced by three or more researchers working in more than two institutions or organisations, say researchers at Sussex...
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American students lured by false claims
American foreign study programmes are reviewing the promises they make to students in the wake of legal action against a college that allegedly misrepresented itself as an affiliate of Oxford...
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Robin Hood plan for France
Student unrest in French universities has escalated in response to government efforts to meet demands for extra resources, Francois Bayrou unveiled an emergency plan for the most under-resourced...
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Gold that is a blend of many coffers
Re the figures on university earnings in 1993/94 (THES, November 3). The commentary contains a serious error. It states that universities' income "has been supplemented by the increasing amount of...
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O come all ye barbarians
I find myself time and time again at odds with the deep conservatism that begins to appear more and more like a virus infecting clerics who work in institutions of higher education in Britain. I am...
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Bottom line on chairs
Helena Kennedy's excellent article raises some crucial issues pertinent to the invisibility of women in senior university posts. The stock response of many of the male academics who continue to...
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We'll never stand alone
In his article on probation training (THES, November 3) Mike Nellis is correct to assert that probation training should remain within higher education. However, his view that the arguments against...
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Happy with the reign in Spain
It is 20 years next week since Franco gasped his last and relinquished his hold on Spain. But although his democratic successors have been accused of corruption, Huw Richards finds little desire in...
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Poetry in motion
Lucy Hodges meets Paul Muldoon, the Heaney acolyte who wants to rearrange furniture in our heads. Paul Muldoon looked a bit the worse for wear. He was on a poetry-reading tour of the United Kingdom,...
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College standards satisfy inspector
Despite an 11 per cent efficiency gain and 5 per cent growth over the last year, standards of teaching in further education colleges have been judged satisfactory by their chief inspector whose...
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Mouse patent contested
The patenting of a mouse genetically engineered to develop cancer will be contested in the European Patent Office next week by 17 groups including a United Kingdom coalition of animal welfare...
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Bloodshed at Nigerian university
The Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria's largest higher education establishment, has been closed following the murder of Bamidele Bandipo, director of the university's teaching hospital. Angry...
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HM loan arranger
The Government's plans to privatise the student loans scheme were confirmed in the Queen's Speech this week. Her Majesty said legislation would be introduced to enable students to choose between...