Proof of the eating is in UEA's pudding
The University of East Anglia is proposing to become the United Kingdom's premier centre for food research, writes Kam Patel. The bid has been spurred by the Government's Prior Options review which...
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Westminster tops debt league
Students could incur vastly higher levels of debt depending on the university they attended, according to a new survey. Figures produced as part of the 1997 PUSH (formerly the Polytechnics and...
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Right said Fred
Alumnus to be proud of No 63 has received more praise for his personal integrity and honesty over the past few days - albeit in distinctly Mark Antony style - than most people do in a lifetime. Fred...
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Eternal students face mortality
Hamburg. Germany's notorious eternal students, in extreme cases enrolled at university for up to 20 years, could face expensive bills for study fees in future if politicians in the state of Baden-...
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Design for the computer age
It is obviously the silly season! Two sentences by Lord Beloff about media studies (Elite and proud of it, THES, August 9) and we are subjected to discussions about the state of the students' bowels...
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Grief is carved in stone
Sandra Gilbert discovered the anguish behind the bland term 'medical malpractice' when her husband died after a routine operation. But grief, she found, could be both muse and stone companion....
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College launches 'bully' probe
Governors at one of England's fastest-growing further education colleges are to conduct an independent survey into the running of the college following allegations of bullying. A study by lecturers'...
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Green killer
(Photograph) - Green killer: Philip Howse, joint head of the centre for bio-electrostatics at Southampton University, shows off his environmentally-friendly cockroach trap, which uses an...
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Engineer conversion courses are a fillip
Conversion courses developed to address the perennial worry of recruitment to engineering degrees have eased the problem, says a report from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The one-...
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Top Scots cash in
Seven Scottish universities are to share almost Pounds 240,000 following "excellent" ratings in the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's latest quality assessment. There were seven excellents...
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Green light for A level entrance to Italian system
Milan. For the first time in more than half a century, British A levels can be used by Italian students as entrance qualifications to the country's universities. The move by the Italian ministry of...
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Southampton Review
In The THES, July 26, under the heading "Southampton Review" you stated . . . "following votes of no confidence from staff headed by Geoffrey Hall" . . . This is totally untrue. I have in fact been...
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Mature policy pays dividends
Richard Disney argues that the UK, unlike its international competitors, is not facing a crisis from an ageing population thanks to radical cutbacks in social security provision and the increasing...
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Astronomers lose vital eye in the sky
A prolific astronomical satellite, which was launched on a three-year mission in 1978 but is still active, is to be shut down in six weeks' time because of funding problems. The International...
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Oxbridge links up with Met office and Oxheading
Computer-generated weather forecasts could become more accurate thanks to an initiative just launched by the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in collaboration with the Meteorological Office....