Toil and trouble
Society needs hard facts about changing working patterns in order to plan for the future, argues Valerie Bayliss. What is really happening to the patterns of working lives and careers? Suddenly, all...
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Natfhe survey reveals stress
A survey has revealed high stress levels at Britain's largest university, sparking union claims that lecturers' health will suffer and educational quality will decline. The survey, by lecturers'...
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Padanian panic
The Council of Europe attracted the president of Italy, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, to the opening ceremony of its higher education access conference in Parma University last week. This was a mixed...
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Big worry is study not cash
Students are suffering greater stress from course difficulties than from financial problems, according to a psychology lecturer. Evelyn Monks of Glasgow Caledonian University found that the majority...
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Radio speeds up the Internet link
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Timetable for change
In contrast with European Union procedures to promote change in member states, the Council of Europe generally issues recommendations rather than legally binding conventions, recognising the enormous...
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Better debate now please
Increasingly, one comes close to despair about the quality of public discussion of education issues. Now we have Mary Warnock, apparently echoing George Walden, declaring that "the worst schools in...
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Weak link is the false comparison not a weak tail
In Opinion (THES, September 20) Richard Barry uses the fact that 37 engineering faculties require lower grades for admission than all but two in the humanities as evidence for the existence of a long...
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Pressed for time
Seen much in the papers about last week's Leeds University conference on media ethics? No, us neither. One possible explanation is contained in a letter from the organisers to a potential participant...
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Internet News
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
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Access gap gets priority treatment
Bridging the access gap for the 16-18 age group has emerged as a high profile issue, with students, vice chancellors and the Labour party all making it a priority. The announcement by the Committee...
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Tourism aims to lure students into its trap
Governments and universities should seize the opportunities for tourism presented by higher education, a conference heard last week. Speaking to delegates attending "Tourism and Culture: Towards the...
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Taking a chance on sport
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Tales of prospering cheats
Cheating in ߣߣÊÓƵn universities is on the rise and the small number of students who are caught is only the tip of an iceberg, according to an associate professor of statistics at Macquarie...
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Care is worth a guinea or three
On reading your headline "Pounds 5.8 billion" (THES, September 20), I think a personal reflection may cast some light on this problem. At the end of a working life, I, like Virginia Woolf, ask the...