Scottish devolution: the essential facts
The Government's white paper, Scotland's Parliament, proposes the biggest reshaping of the United Kingdom's constitution since the partition of Ireland in 1922. Next Thursday the electors of Scotland...
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Listing is for research degrees and jobs
The following listing is for research degrees and jobs. Where possible a central contact person or office contact point has been given. Where there are several contact people they have been listed...
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The truth will out
Misprint or Freudian slip? A sharp-eyed reader draws our attention to the passage in the annual report of a northern university which explains that the institution had had its staff:student ratio...
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Appreciative audiences turn on sex-show women
Sex performers 'enjoy' their own shows WOMEN who perform in illegal live sex shows may get a sexual buzz from their work, according to new research. Bill Thompson, a criminologist at Reading...
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On a roll
(Photograph) - Ugo de Maio of Southampton University has helped design a gas turbine engine in three weeks. Students from all over Europe have been taking part in the Eurovia European Engine Design...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 revealed that: * Unemployment is the first destination of 5 per cent of those qualifying at postgraduate level * Unemployment is the...
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No talking
(Photograph) - No talking: The Cambridge Mummers drama group finds reputation means little in the cut-throat world of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Full story, page 19
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Warwick is five-star for computer science
LAST week's edition of The THES omitted Warwick University from the list of universities that achieved a five-star rating incomputer science in the research assessment exercise. Heriot-Watt...
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Vocational courses lose candidates
FEWER than half of advanced GNVQ exam candidates completed the course this year, the Joint Council of National Awarding Bodies announced this week. The completion-rate for the "vocational A-level"...
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Literary types equipped for life
In the third of our series on degrees we look at what students can expect from ancient and modern subjects THEY MAY be more career-minded these days but students have never lost their love of...
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Women flock to master the mind
In the third of our series on degrees we look at what students can expect from ancient and modern subjects WHEN IT comes to studying human behaviour, women are queuing at university doors to...
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Central control looms
Whitehall moves to centralise funding could threaten university independence, it emerged this week. Tuition fees could turn out to be little more than a tax on students that would put more money in...
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Court rules Cambridge jobs policy 'unfair'
Cambridge University has suffered a defeat in the High Court at the hands of lecturer Gill Evans, who claims the university's procedures for promoting academic staff are "unfair and secretive". The...
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NUS torn apart by leadership's response to fees
Confusion over tuition fees and the axing of grants is splitting the National Union of Students, writes Alan Thomson. Student unions across the country say the NUS's response to the Government's...
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Car chief heads Training Standards Council
VAUXHALL Motors boss Nick Reilly will chair the Government's new Training Standards Council. The council, set up to investigate bad practice and fraud in public-funded training, will begin...