Scots give boost to part-timers
The Scottish Office is pressing for an increase in part-time education amid calls for a better deal for part-timers in terms of student support and course quality assurance. Ed Weeple, Scottish...
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Master mind
The power of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals extends further than we thought. No sooner have they issued their report on the growing problem of drop-outs than the Colombian police...
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Contagious rumour
Swift reaction last week to the news that Virginia Bottomley was to quit the Department of Health to become National Heritage secretary. Within minutes a spoof memo had appeared at the British...
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Just deserts
The unrelenting global expansion of higher education continues to push the parameters of proper academic study ever wider. University of North London public affairs officer John Izbicki was delighted...
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Graphics student in justified success
Sam Davy, a graphic design student at the University of Northumbria, was yesterday awarded top prize in this year's British Design & Art Direction (D&AD) competition for students, writes...
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Sister act
(Photograph) - Sister act: Sister Helen Prejean, a long-time campaigner against the death penalty in the United States, received an honourary doctorate in law at Glasgow University this week. Her...
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IRCs failing self-finance test
Scientists in Interdisciplinary Research Centres are concerned about possible closures as the Government and research councils begin to take a close look at the centres in the light of changes in...
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Germans want to be selective
German politicians and academics have launched a joint campaign for universities to set their own student selection procedures. It would recreate an elite higher education system by making...
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Bachelor of tarts sex ring denied
Claims on a South African television programme that University of the Free State students have been involved in a popular and exclusive sex club in conservative Bloemfontein have been angrily denied...
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Battle to preserve Civil War sites
Anthony Gross (THES,June 30) is to be congratulated for drawing attention to the attempts of the Battlefields Trust to preserve Tewkesbury. The trust originated largely as a result of the earlier...
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Research reforms anger scientists
Danish ministry of research proposals for a tripartite research policy structure have angered the university and research community. Bent Schmidt-Nielsen, rector of the Royal Danish Veterinary and...
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Knives out over surgery appointee
John Hunter once said a surgeon was no more than a savage with a knife. The father of modern surgery was referring to the barber-surgeons of his day who hacked off limbs at the first sign of disease...
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Ruling on religious magazine angers US liberals
The University of Virginia has been told by the United States Supreme Court that it must subsidise a student religious magazine in the same way as it funds other student publications. The Rosenberger...
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Question of sport
May I alert readers to the dangers of writing the opposite of what you mean when using the phrase "there is no question that"? I have found cricket commentators especially using it to assert...