Edna Longley's review of R. F. Foster's W. B. Yeats: A Life ( THES , March 28) should have read that the ambiguities of Yeats's "Easter 1916" "may pivot onwhat was indeed 'most bitter wrong/To some...
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/6 reveal that: * 54.4 per cent of first degree qualifiers who gained a first class honours degree were men. * 64.3 per cent of first degree...
From Edward James THE CASUAL reader of "The Virtual Past Master" (THES, April 4), about Niall Ferguson and his counterfactual history, might be forgiven for believing that the reporter thought he had...
A NEW galaxy close to our own has been spotted by astronomers hunting through photographs of the night sky. The Antlia Galaxy appears so dim relative to the night sky that until now astromoners...
Huw Richards takes a hard look at what the parties are offering in further and higher education CONSERVATIVE * Teacher training curriculum to stress traditional methods * Learning credits for...
Helena Flusfeder reports on compression that uses noise to improve quality Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found that noise can improve music. But it has to be the right kind of noise....
(Photograph) - Astronomers at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, and Queen's University, Belfast, are studying Comet Hale-Bopp as it passes the sun. According to Iwan Williams of QMW, the...
THE UNIVERSITY of Kent is considering heavy cuts to combat a funding shortfall of Pounds 2 million, and whether to create a development fund for staff and research initiatives. An internal document...
THE DUAL support system of funding research is an effective way of combatting universities' understandable though potentially damaging short-term pursuit of project grants, according to Higher...
Funding cuts hit nearly nine out of ten further education colleges this week, casting doubt on the future of some institutions and blighting the educational hopes of tens of thousands of students....
Support for the Conservative party among university and college lecturers has all but evaporated, according to a poll conducted for The Times Higher Education Supplement by ICM Research. Beaten into...
Can John Major rely on his "nice man next door" persona to woo the electorate? Will Tony Blair inspire voters with his personal charm and fixed smile? Or can Paddy Ashdown persuade the waverers to...
LECTURERS union Natfhe has called for improved further education funding as part of a lobbying campaign aimed at MPs and parliamentary candidates in the run up to the general election. Around 2,500...
More institutions are offering a seamless progression between further and higher education as the sectors see the benefits of working together. Franchised courses, validation arrangements and...
Lorna Fitzsimons, 29, attracted attention for not going into party politics, unions or the media when her term as president of the National Union of Students ended in 1994, instead taking a lobbying...