UFOs: Unidentified Fishy Objects?
Mermaids were the UFOs or aliens of Victorian times, says Harriet Ritvo, who has reeled in a collection of curious tales from an era with a mania for classifying and cataloguing animals. Tim Cornwell...
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Unmade in Sheffield
By day, Geoffrey Beattie analysed language, by night he listened to the sounds of Sheffield lives put on hold by Thatcherite economics I had only just moved to Sheffield as an academic when Mrs...
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The fat of the land
It costs the NHS Pounds 2 billion a year and it afflicts almost a fifth of all Britons, but it isn't even a government health target. Julia Hinde reports on the growing problem of obesity Britain is...
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Hitler's spectre haunts science
Justine Burley discusses one philosopher's attempt to rid modern cloning and genetics of the undeserved taint of Nazi eugenics Hitler once said: "The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the...
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Jung, gifted and blackened
Sonu Shamdasani rebuts claims that Carl Jung, one of the giants of psychotherapy, was a neopagan charlatan who was obsessed with starting a pseudo-religious cult Modern psychotherapy has always held...
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Tories fume at Lib Dem betrayal
TOP-level talks between Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown led to Liberal Democrat peers "ratting" on an agreement to send the controversial Teaching and Higher Education Bill back to the committee stage,...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: of the 20 per cent of first-degree graduates who went on to further study: * 55 per cent of women went on to study for...
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ACLU in PC debate
Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union and professor of law at New York Law School, will debate the implications of political correctness on campus tomorrow during a three-...
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Labour's dealings with peer pressure
Huw Richards assesses how reform of the House of Lords could affect higher education REFORMING the House of Lords has bubbled away in the background of British politics for most of this century....
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Blunkett's dream awaits cash
ANOTHER round of consultation on post-16 education began this week after the government's long-awaited white-turned-green paper on lifelong learning raised more questions than it answered. The...
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Full steam ahead without extra fuel
The government has reaffirmed its intention to lift the cap on expansion in higher education, but has not committed itself to extra spending to cover the cost. Its response to the Dearing report into...
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Cheltenham and Gloucester bid gains pace
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education's bid for full university status gained momentum as the Privy Council granted it research degree awarding powers. The college, which previously...
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Sacked examiners win apology and settlement
Five A-level examiners sacked last year after the Schools Curriculum and Assessment Authority accused them of "serious misconduct" have been given an unconditional apology. The examiners were sacked...
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Password to global understanding
A new overseas qualification has been launched to help universities judge applications from abroad. Examinations and awarding body EDEXCEL has developed Password to standardise qualifications from...
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Higher and further ties the knot
Two pioneering mergers between higher and further education institutions were up for approval this week. Derby University was given the go-ahead by the Further Education Funding Council this week for...