THE challenge facing agricultural colleges
Agricultural colleges were still teaching students how to hand-milk cows when Alexander Ferguson enrolled for his course three decades ago. Today, agriculture students at Otley College, Suffolk,...
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The art of darkness
Humanities departments are now characterised by 'catastrophic disorganisation and disillusionment', outgoing MLA president Edward Said tells Tim Cornwell The Modern Language Association gathers this...
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Technology, TV and titles with colons
Rubbing shoulders this year with sessions on Chaucer and Balzac are papers on men and lesbianism, designing websites and genetics. reports Tim Cornwell Harry Potter makes his debut at the MLA this...
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The words of the decade, the centuryand the millennium
Can the British hold their own in writing English in the 21st century? Or will the Americans appropriate the language entirely? The opening skirmish in this war of words is already under way, as...
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A cure for monolingualism
Carlos Fuentes, the 71-year-old literary lion of Mexico, lives, when in Lon- don, in a Kensington apartment that has trebled in value, he says happily, since he bought it a decade ago. A generous...
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Richard III meets Benjy at a cash bar
With the humanities just beginning to consider all of what makesus human, Michael Berube looks at the hopeful condition of disability studies and invites you to have a drink The MLA affords, among...
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The dash for cash
Universities are fervently chasing commercial deals. The cost, argues Masao Miyoshi in a paper to be given in Chicago, may be a loss of academic freedom Richard C. Atkinson, president of the...
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Scientists to get Pounds 320m boost
A significant step towards restoring the United Kingdom's declining university research facilities has been taken with the announcement of almost Pounds 320 million of new investment. The second...
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Natfhe backs 'victim'
'Natfhe is supporting lecturer Mark Challinor in a claim for compensation after he was selected for redundancy having blown the whistle' Higher education's first tribunal case under new laws to...
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Double trouble
Predictably pleasant surprises? Surely "serendipities" are always "unexpected" ("Blooming of a square set", THES, November 26)? Philip Bradfield School of computing and IT University of Wolverhampton
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Kate Shindle
Aspiring actress Kate Shindle, who was Miss America 1998, is working as a waitress while looking for work on stage, screen and television after graduating from Northwestern University in June.
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Middlesex blazes associate trail
Middlesex University believes it has created a blueprint for the kind of associate degree ministers have in mind, writes Tony Tysome. The programme's key element is that a quarter of the work is at...
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Peter Bush
Peter Bush was reinstated as vice-principal of Glasgow Caledonian University in August following a successful appeal against dismissal. A report in The THES of December 3 may have been misleading.
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Decline in student volunteers
Volunteer charities face a recruitment crisis as cash-strapped students spend more time working to make ends meet. Organisations that rely heavily on students raising funds to take part in voluntary...
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Helping in Tanzania
Hugh Roberts found three months helping to build school classrooms in Tanzania complemented perfectly his degree in third world and development studies at Coventry University. As well as the...