Baby boom
Higher and further education institutions are being targetted this week by a national campaign to improve child-care facilities for students and staff. The Association of University Teachers, Natfhe...
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Talks on track
Sir Bob Reid, former chairman of British Rail, is to chair the key negotiations on the planned merger of the Association for Colleges and the Colleges Employers Forum. Also chairing some of the...
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National Trust failure
The National Trust has failed to save fast-disappearing landscapes or to boost rural economies sufficiently, the director of the centre for the rural economy at Newcastle University, is set to say...
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Action on standards
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's determination to be the main quality watchdog for universities north of the border seems to have derailed plans for a UK-wide single quality agency, at...
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Action on standards
The proportion of students taken on to foundation courses after failing their A levels is tiny, the Higher Education Quality Council has told the Government. A report ordered by Gillian Shephard,...
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Well dressed
(Photograph) - Well dressed: Olympic dressage rider Ian Stark was the star turn at a fund-raising evening for the Pounds 6 million Weipers Centre for Equine Welfare now being built at the University...
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Action on standards
Vice chancellors may move towards uniform degree standards when they meet in Belfast next week. The annual residential meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals will receive an...
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Thesis
The THES Internet Service, THESIS, gets a new look today. The redesigned pages are intended both to provide a better service for our regular visitors and to attract new Internet users who have...
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Lib-Dems seek quality council with bite
A quality council with its own degree-awarding powers is one of the key proposals from the Liberal Democrat party's higher education working group. The group unveiled its consultation paper at this...
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Art's unhappy eaters
El Greco, painter of tall, thin figures and Holbein, painter of shorter, stockier ones, may have suffered from eating disorders which distorted their images of body shape, a psychologist suggested...
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Out of the melee into the fire?
A new current affairs magazine hits the streets next week. Simon Midgley canvassed opinion on its chances of success. Since the end of the second world war British journalism has been littered with...
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Quality row hides cuts aim
Alan Smithers rightly recognises (THES, September 15) that "home students admitted to full-time first-degree courses at British universities have a number of privileges conferred upon them",...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Shropshire-born novelist whose work received posthumous praise from the prime minister: "Flora put her warm lips close to his cap. 'I love you,' she said. He could...
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Speaking volumes: Industrial and Social History of Seven Sisters
Hywel Francis on Chris Evans's, Industrial and Social History of Seven Sisters . There was a tense inquest at the Blaenllechau Radical Club. The committee was discussing the theft of the new colour...
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Put that in your pipe and smoke it
Semiosis in the Postmodern Age