Robins in the wing
Endsleigh Insurance's extension of its business from looking after students to sponsoring the Football League is clearly having an impact on terrace discourse. Overheard during last weekend's Crystal...
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Is there an A-level doctor in house?
The quest to predict which A-level students will make good doctors could be helped by the discovery of a link between how they study when they are 18 and their later clinical abilities, writes...
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Fillip for Clinton voluntary work
President Bill Clinton has scored a small victory in his long-running tug of war with the United States Congress over Americorps, his prized civilian national service programme. Evidence released...
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Ortelius caught in the Net
The limitations of the Italian telecommunications system are frustrating efforts to make a sophisticated database of higher education in Europe speedily available worldwide. Ortelius, named after the...
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A PhD code of practice
Your editorial (THES, May 24) erroneously maintains that our proposals for reform of student maintenance are "highly regressive". You also misunderstand the important role of public-private...
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Oxford may lose its Liberty
The future of Oxford University's business venture with Liberty was in the balance this week following the upmarket retailers' announcement that all its branches outside London are to close to stem...
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Registers of interests become the norm
Eight out of ten further education colleges have registers of governors' and senior staff's interests, or plan to have them soon, according to a Further Education Funding Council survey. Three...
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Salford beefs up bully boys to tag rogues
A beef "police force" is to be trained by University College, Salford, which has been asked by the ministry of agriculture to help catch farmers trying to avoid the compulsory slaughtering of older...
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Le winning streak
Students in Paris have found a new answer to exam nerves. The first-ever examinations mass, organised by a Paris church last week, offered consolation to 400 jittery students and numbers of anguished...
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Touch-up
Yannick Minivielle-Debat, a specialist conservator at Bradford University, applies an all-over coating of wax to Rodin's "The Age of Bronze" in the entrance to the City Art Gallery, Leeds. A public...
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Thirtysomethings back in class
Russell Pate was 25 with a wife, a daughter and one career already behind him when he began to work towards a degree in cardiovascular technology at Northeastern University in Boston. "I felt like I...
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Open up medicine's cloistered world
Medicine is a profession charged with a duty to serve all members of society, but which is dominated by white, middle-class men. A profession that still learns the bulk of its trade by apprenticeship...
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Media success story
Ian Christie's curiously contradictory article on media and film studies ("Lights, cameras . . . no action", THES, May 24) will add to the growing file of clippings over the past two years in which...
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Science lags behind on the insular isle
Britain is not keeping up with its partners in Europe in internationalising its education system and its scientific and technological workforce, according to a new study, writes Kam Patel. The report...
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Bias victim wins
A House of Lords judgment could hit universities and colleges that have sent out negative references containing unsupported opinion. Michelle Brenton, a graduate from the Polytechnic of Wales, now...