Tough talk from top woman v-c
Fay Gale, the first woman to head the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee, is a high-flying academic with a string of prizes, papers and books to her credit. Vice chancellor of Western Australia's...
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Wish-list or hit-list: wait for Dearing
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has just issued a consultative document on the funding method it should adopt for teaching from 1997/98 onwards. To its credit, the council's...
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Fall-out from the nuclear family
Divorce, single parenthood and live-in lovers have changed the variety and complexion of the British family. But one thing has not changed - the woman who has a man and the child who has a resident...
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Soil scoop to seek life on Mars
Moon rock, the only planetary material to have been brought back to earth by humans, could soon be outdone by Mars rock, if a plan by Nasa comes to fruition. The United States space agency has...
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Race track puts broad base in pole position
The Government should concentrate on promoting broad-based university and school education and avoid detailed involvement in job-specific training, according to new findings by the Institute of...
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Oxford reveals business aim
Oxford University has announced plans for a world-class international business school funded by its largest single benefaction in 60 years, writes Alan Thomson. Vice chancellor Peter North said it...
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Meaningless moos and slightly used wives
If a child is left out for more than 20 hours a day it would have a devastating effect on the child's development. Peter Barnes's Open University students are always a fruitful source of unusual...
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Snakes and ladders
Finding a job is a process fraught with tough decisions. Four graduates describe their experiences. Paul Wilkes, from Barrow upon Soar, gained a 2:1 in mathematics from Leicester University. He also...
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Chinese graduates sail into jobs
Most of this summer's 866,000 Chinese university graduates have already found jobs, according to the Chinese State Education Commission in Beijing. Ninety per cent of the 400,000 students graduating...
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Straitjacket binds artists
In his letter ("Wolf is in the art studio", THES, June 28), Richard Robbins usefully highlights the plight of art college education, and the damage caused by cuts to the important input by part-time...
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Bullying off for Britain
In the first of three articles, Olympic hockey player and student chemist John Wyatt sets off on the road to Atlanta As I walked off the pitch I was overcome by relief. We had beaten Belgium 2-0 in...
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Raven has landed at Sussex
All degree programmes at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication will be validated by Sussex University following an announcement last week of an official affiliation between the two...
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CJD judgment
A High Court judgement is expected today on whether the Medical Research Council is liable for negligence in adminstering a human growth hormone treatment in the 1960s and 1970s. Ten families in...
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Galleries get ready to rock
It is just as well that the birds in London's Natural History Museum are dead and stuffed. They lie in rows inside mahogany cases, sharing a conventional museum existence with miscellaneous fossils,...
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Graduates enjoy growth market
The continued recovery in the graduate labour market is good news for the thousands of university students finishing their courses this month and starting the search for work. An Association of...