NVQs given 'too low a profile'
The Government quango charged with introducing national vocational qualifications is bungling the development of new NVQs, according to the head of the leading awarding body of job-related...
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Saints land one safely in the net
Southampton's Premier League football club is being subjected to academic scrutiny. Its progress is being charted through a new service on the Internet provided by researchers at Southampton...
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Shortage of space forced Kent MA delay
Kent Institute of Art and Design has launched an inquiry into events leading to the last-minute suspension of its MA art and architecture course. Ten students from as far away as Mexico and Japan...
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All wired up
(Photograph) - Artist Mandy Barber and parts of her installation involving 800 blankets, 200 electric ladybird nightlights and 35 orange glow electric nightlights, that was exhibited at Sheffield...
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On the right Royal road to real success
De Montfort University's v-c wants the former polytechnic to become like a medieval cathedral, a large employer, a patron of the arts and repository of knowledge and scholarship. Simon Targett...
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Learning to manage with those rapid changes
Arming employees with the skills to manage change within companies should be one of the main responses of management education courses to the quickening pace of change in the wider business...
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Fastest Hamlet in the West
Those aiming to break the record for the fastest recitation of Hamlet's most famous soliloquy should be warned: human judges have been replaced by more probing computerised ones. The speech of the...
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US keeps eye on the race
Taking race into account in college admissions - in the name of helping disadvantaged minorities - was turned into one of 1995's biggest political issues in higher education by conservatives who...
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The Czech generation game
Prague School of Economics students Petr Polak and Jakub Mikulasek face a future which, like that of many of their classmates, seems brilliant. A western company has just offered them a job. They...
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Teaching assistants unite over strike
Graduate students who work as teachers, graders, tutors and researchers have been on strike at Yale University in a dispute closely watched by other private universities and colleges in the United...
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Top French lab feels the squeeze
The New Year has brought fresh rumours of a radical shake-up at France's biggest public research organisation, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. According to CNRS management, the...
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Regions of doubt
Roger King (Letters, THES, January 12) objects to my warning that the development of universities with a strong regional emphasis could lead to unhealthy rivalry for students. While I welcome the co-...
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One God against the odds
On the basis of his article "From the laboratory to the inventor", (THES, January 12) Richard Swinburne's forthcoming book, Is there a God?, is unlikely to ask what is surely the central question,...
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Slow to criticise
It transpires from Sir Michael Atiyah's 1995 presidential address to the Royal Society (Perspective, THES, January 5) that the society has at long last awoken to the dangers of anti-science. What a...