On their knees
(Photograph) - On their knees: police order students demanding reunification of North and South Korea to kneel in submission after a nine-day confrontation ended violently when police stormed the...
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A-level madness
The blow finally fell on the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals press office last week. No, nothing to do with downsizing or rationalisation. Their real fear had always been a slow news...
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Human tumours grown in the lab
A major obstacle to researching radiation-induced cancers has been cracked by scientists. They have found a way of inducing such cancers in human cells growing in a petri dish. Until now scientists...
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Horror story from assessment visit
I agree with Professor Elton (THES letters, August 16) that students today and tomorrow deserve an explanation of the apparent paradox that 99 per cent of departments assessed for teaching quality...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. 10.00am. I am in the teaching committee. Oh dear, how dreary - but at least I'll get free coffee and biscuits. Five years ago the teaching committee was exactly what it said; a group of...
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A question of collar
Ceri Peach digests the ethnic data of the 1991 census and concludes that while Indian immigrants are following the white-collar route established by Jewish settlers, people of Caribbean origin are...
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Searching for a colourful lingua franca
An art school head is tickled pink with the results of an international study he has conducted into the everyday use of colour names in popular phrases. Colours used in phrases such as "green with...
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Access students warned off elite
Access course students are often discouraged by their own tutors from aiming for a high-ranking university place, a national survey has found. Those hoping to study law at an old university...
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Wizard idea
Nice to see that the science comedy show Modern Problems in Science was among the features offered at Fringe Sunday last week in Edinburgh. But we are a bit nonplussed about both the originality and...
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Palatable monitor makes it good to talk
One in every 600 children born in the United Kingdom has a cleft palate or cleft lip, which can lead to speech problems. Most of them respond well to conventional speech therapy, but those with...
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Design for the computer age
Dear Ron, Sorry I'm a bit rushed. Just back from a few days in Berlin. Fascinated to see a city re-creating itself. To contrast the lively west and backward east. I am struck that similar...
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Dearing questions are often historic ones
The minister announced in the House of Commons that the Government proposed an inquiry into the state of universities. A commission was set up and a series of questions were promptly sent out to...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a tale of a Wilf, a Dick and several Normans: "With the life of a generous, but rash and romantic monarch, perished all the projects which his ambition and his...
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A voice from the edge
An Unquiet Mind
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Al Jolson and the burnt cork brigade
Blackface, White Noise