Load of Trollope
Politics may have changed since Anthony Trollope chronicled the doings of the nation's elite in his Pallisers sequence of novels, but the names appear to be much the same. Ged Martin of Edinburgh...
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Art form
(Photograph) - Art form: Art foundation students at Yorkshire Coast College of Further and Higher Education, which is struggling to compete with local sixth form colleges.
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Young doctor goes west
Winston Churchill will come under renewed scrutiny from this year's occupant of the visiting chair in British history at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. The Robertson chair, established in the...
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Torry Laboratory rescue group remains optimistic
The Aberdeen Research Consortium has not lost hope that the work of the threatened Torry Food Science Laboratory will remain in the city despite a Government decision to close it next year. The...
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Cosmetic calling for the pea
The humble pea could soon be the source of plastics and ingredients for lipsticks, potash and match heads, if research at the John Innes Centre in Norwich is successful. The products have an...
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Forfeit for four-year sacrifice
Four-year degree courses have been developed by many university science and engineering departments for a variety of reasons. These include: the need for more content , particularly complementary...
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Turning green into gold
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences. This week The THES summer series on research begins. As mainstream teaching ends for the summer vacation in much of higher education, academic staff and...
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The administrators
Angela Crum-Ewing is the retiring deputy registrar at Reading University. She entered university administration at the age of 39 after taking time out to care for a family of four children. When her...
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Lipstick and white collars
Elaine Williams reports on the slow progress of women in the male world of academic management. Working in universities has been good preparation for a gentleman's club". One of the three new women...
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The vice chancellors
Three women take up vice chancellor posts in September, bringing the total number of women v-cs in the UK to five. However, their personal styles and reputations are very different. Christine King is...
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Leagues expose lecturers' quality quirks
At the end of the academic year in Israel's universities, league tables of the marks given by students to their lecturers are displayed in corridors and common rooms. Apart from their obvious role as...
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Castro relaxes grip on jobs
Cubans with academic qualifications will be allowed to engage in private enterprise, according to a new ruling of the ministry of labour and social security. But there is a major restriction. They...
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Ways and Mensa to get ahead
Warwick University is making a bid to recruit students with the highest IQ by collaborating with Mensa on a series of short degree-accredited courses. Mensa, the society for people with high IQs...
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OST inquiry
The transfer of the Office of Science and Technology to the Department of Trade and Industry will be the subject of an inquiry by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, as part of an...