'I thought people would snap me up..'
A Mickey Mouse degree? Sam Noonan graduated in English and media studies from Sussex University in 1993. "I wanted to go into TV production - being a researcher appealed to me. I thought people would...
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Red, the colour of stars and blood
Kate Davenport looks at the fall-out from a book that equates Communist atrocities with Nazi genocide and charges western Communists with complicity in the crimes of their eastern comrades It's a bit...
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What's good for the customer
Since its inception, The Times' Good University Guide has been eagerly read and heavily criticised. On the one hand, potential undergraduate students and their advisers have welcomed a simple guide...
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Lottery oversight
On April 24, we published a table of lottery awards. It failed to include the Warwick Arts Centre, which is formally part of the university. It won Pounds 3.14 million in 1996 for development.
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Evolutionary workers' party
It is time the left embraced Darwin, forgot Utopia and accepted there are some things about human nature that cannot be changed. Peter Singer urges a new manifesto on the left. The tragic irony of...
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Ziggy in an age without stardust
Modernity's relentless drive for the ultimate answer produced the Holocaust, according to Zygmunt Bauman. But will our postmodern age with its rejection of the illusion of total solutions avoid such...
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Nice little learners
Most students are seriously poor. One or two, however, are very, very rich. So why are they bothering with a degree? Harriet Swain reports. John Bennett is juggling journalists - or rather, his PR...
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No more heroes any more?
Alan Shearer will probably be canonised in Newcastle if he scores the winner in the FA Cup Final tomorrow. But, as Richard Holt explains, working-class heroism is not what it used to be. Will...
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Saddam Hussein's city of the damned
Saddam Hussein's gassing of Halabja in 1988 was the worst chemical weapons attack ever. Geneticist Christine Gosden went there and was appalled by people's continuing agony and by how little we know...
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A Mickey Mouse degree?
Marya Burgess examines the persistent prejudice in journalism against media studies If you want to be a journalist, do a physics degree or do zoology," advises Tim Finch, the BBC's regional political...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: * The number of UK enrolments increased by 2 per cent * The number of enrolments from European Union students increased by 6...
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Star crossed
Stellar confusion has also gripped the Tokyo office of the British Council, whose UK98 festival of all things British is now going strong. One of the UK organisations appearing in the list of events...
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Eye site
Moray House Institute of Education, Edinburgh, offers a guide to video for visually impaired learners, free on the web at www.ssc.mhie.ac.uk/ VI_Video/welcome.htm or on CD-Rom at Pounds 20 including...
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History in the measuring
Thirteen historians met last week to hammer out how to define standards in their subject. The 13 historians make up the subject's benchmarking group, which will contribute to the Quality Assurance...
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X marks the sweet spot for Web's future
Dan Brickley reports from Brisbane on the seventh World Wide Web conference The hassle-free future of communication via the Net became visibly clearer at the recent World Wide Web conference in...