France keeps budget promise
French higher education has escaped sweeping cutbacks aimed at meeting the Maastricht criteria for a single European currency. It has been awarded the biggest budget increase of any government...
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Training boost
Industry-based training bodies are being set up to help the UK become more competitive, the Government has announced. National Training Bodies will replace about 200 industry training organisations...
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Getting shirty
One purpose of the residential conference of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is to aid communication between vice chancellors and officials. But it proved the opposite for chief...
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Net opens way to global admissions system
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service could soon match students and higher education institutions as far away as Malaysia and Taiwan, according to chief executive Tony Higgins. Greater use...
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How to keep up with the Browns
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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Students reimbursed as Cork breaks link
A private college in Cork, which was in discussions with the University of Exeter over degree validation, has returned the deposits of 50 applicants for places on diploma and degree courses. The...
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Cut-price teaching
Higher Education Trends in this week's THES draws attention to the growing casualisation of the acdemic profession. It is likely, as Lucy Hodges reports (page i), that official figures from the...
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Method not madness
Your article "A subject in the prime of life"(THES, September 13) presents a striking unity of opposites. On the one hand, the decline of mathematics is attributed to its perceived difficulty; on the...
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Strike urge
Lecturers' union Natfhe has announced that it will ballot its 18,000 members in the former polytechnics and HE colleges, urging them to vote for industrial action over this year's 1.5 per cent pay...
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Speaking Volumes: The Grapes of Wrath
John Urry on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . The book that turned me into sociologist was The Grapes of Wrath. I had left school in the mid-1960s as a Thatcherite avant la lettre. I was...
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Alexander Rodchenko's 1920s poster
(Photograph) - Alexander Rodchenko's 1920s poster for Dziga Vertov's Kino Eye: Vertov referred to the camera as a 'cinema eye for the purpose of research into the chaos of visual phenomena filling...
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Beyond surrealism
The Spanish Avant-Garde
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Currency of the Holy Foreskin
Art and Money
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Everything explained
The Force of Symmetry
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Fowl play
The Chicken From Minsk