Different strokes
What makes Aborigine children draw people as semi-circles when western children draw stick figures? ask Maureen Cox and Rosemary Hill By the age of about two or two-and-a-half, most children have...
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Union boss opposes staff's salary sacrifice
Staff who have offered 5 cent of their salary to help bail out their university are setting a dangerous precedent, the Association of University Teachers has warned. Some 131 staff at Lancaster...
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No sporting chance
The sorry state of British sport is highlighted in a survey of top sportspeople undertaken by two universities. The survey showed dissatisfaction with training facilities, support services and...
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Summit fails to stop student rally
South African students have refused to call off a day of action this week despite a broad consensus reached at a two-day summit on the future of South African higher education and its transformation...
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Competition
When the Robbins committee was appointed just one person in 17went into full-time higher education. Now it is nearly one in three. The Dearing committee has had an impressive list of issues referred...
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Cinderella plays ball
Higher education in Scotland would be better delivered through local colleges, leaving universities a greater national role in research and development, according to radical proposals from six major...
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Geological survey sale idea rocks CBI
Government plans to privatise two important environmental research centres and the British Geological Survey have alarmed academics, industrialists and unions. The Government's "prior options" study...
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Entry curb on Ulster University students
The University of Ulster has had its student intake for next month drastically reduced after admitting too many students last year. The financial loss is put at about Pounds 500,000. The university...
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Funding squeeze fuels merger trend
Careful husbandry has been vital for all colleges in the present stormy financial climate. But the agricultural sector seems to have reaped its own crop of problems. Warwickshire College for...
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HotDocs push thesis contract
A confederation of research student associations in France has proposed students strike a "thesis contract" with the education ministry in an attempt to alleviate some of the trials and tribulations...
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The world cuisine of borderless knowledge
John Daniel sets the scene for the 'Universities in the 21st Century' conference in Singapore next week This conference takes place at a time when many countries are showing an increasing similarity...
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'Wrong ideas' are wrong
Jennie Bristow (THES, August 2) argues that the National Union of Students's decision to ban Hizb-ut Tahrir is anti-Islamic and ultimately anti-religious. She suggests that the boycott came about...
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Red herring from Mars
The fossils found in a meteorite from Mars by United States scientists do not prove there is life there - and even if there is, they do not tell us how life began, according to a British meteorite...
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Sports pledge
Oxford University has reiterated pledges to replace sports facilities under threat from its planned Pounds 20-million business school. Oxford's external affairs director said that the school, which...
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Cold home comfort in job hunt
Students who stay in their "home" region to attend university are more likely to be unemployed after graduating, according to statistics released today. The unemployment rate for first-degree...