Scientists give physics the thumbs down
Physics is losing some of its attraction for many of science's most brilliant minds. A poll of 130 of the world's leading physicists for the millennium issue of the magazine Physics World revealed 17...
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Financial assistance
New financial assistance has been made available to Chinese university students in eight major cities. Students apply for bank loans directly, which they must pay back within four years of graduating...
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Funders keep eye on Melton
College funding chiefs are appointing an official observer at Melton Mowbray College under tough anti-sleaze powers introduced earlier this year. This follows an inquiry into The THES's allegations...
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Jobs insecurity spreads
Higher education employees are twice as likely as bar staff and four times as likely as building site workers to be in temporary jobs. Only people working on campsites or for recruitment agencies...
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League plan to attract firms
Government officials are considering proposals for a university ranking system that would grade institutions on their success in forging links with industry. The system would complement the research...
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UCAS web 'a hit'
Universities spent less on advertising in clearing for the third year running this summer, while the use of the web took off, according to Riley Research's annual report on clearing. More than four...
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FE disconnected?
The pairing of further education and libraries is a rather neglected one (Opinion, THES, November 19). The role of libraries "is changing and their importance increasing" and that "the library is the...
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Take us into account
Anthea Rose says the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is "the only professional accountancy body that has its own technician qualification" (Letters, THES, December 3). The Association...
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Benito Blair?
Dennis Kavanagh says that a large staff devoted to media manipulation and focus groups "is normal in the White House (but) is an innovation in the UK" ("Bona fide or Bonaparte", THES, November 26)....
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Greek pathways
Final general examinations in Greece are not similar to GCSEs ("Winds of change in Aegean", THES, November 19). Until recently, there have been four pathways from which to choose. For example, by...
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True indicator is a job at the end
The idea behind university performance indicators about widening participation and drop-out rates (THES, December 3) is welcome. It is the very essence of a modern university that its students and...
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True indicator is a job at the end
University College Northampton is disputing with the Higher Education Funding Council for England that "out of 179 mature, full-time, first-degree holders who already possessed a qualification two-...
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Moi University
Four days after Moi University reopened from a month-long closure, students went on the rampage again. Property worth more than Sch5 million (Pounds 40,000) was destroyed. The students set fire to...
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True indicator is a job at the end
The opening paragraph of your front-page story states that "the myth that new universities are better than old at social inclusion was shattered today by the publication of the sector's first...
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Hold the web page
The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California has launched the hard-hitting Online Journalism Review, covering the state of reporting on the web through news stories...