Science teaching `heading for disaster'
The Association of University Teachers warns of "absolute disaster" for key areas of science in universities because of recruitment difficulties associated with growing numbers of senior scientists...
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Super model
(Photograph) - Super model: The first phase of the new University College of Lincolnshire campus is to be built on the derelict 15-hectare site which the Royal Fine Arts Commission called "the...
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Up the creek over River development
Kingston University has blamed a Pounds 1,000 overspend on its central administration offices on "informal advice from a quantity surveyor" and inadequate internal management. River House, which...
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Employers go back on the milk round
Employers are returning to the milk round as demand for graduates is expected to increase by 10 per cent this year, according to a new report from Incomes Data Services. A survey of more than 100...
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Cataract lab pioneers human touch
A laboratory to house world-leading, non-animal research into cataracts opens today at the University of East Anglia. The Pounds 170,000 lab is funded by the Humane Research Trust, which supports...
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Plugged in
Further academic soaps nominated by Mark Griffiths of Plymouth University include Only Fools and Courses, Tears Before B.Ed Time, Did You B.Sc, Low Grant and that well-known university-based crime...
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On the ball
Never let it be said that The THES has no influence. No sooner had we reported that the Nigerian university system was expected to close for the duration of this year's Junior World Cup than FIFA...
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Power plant
An extremely warm hello to the author of the new Staff and Educational Developmental Association paper Education for the Environment, Malcolm Plant.
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Naked fear
Amid fears that protests about student poverty had taken a dramatic turn, Dundee University administrators raced to investigate reports that a naked woman was chained to a campus fence. But the...
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Premier league
While Italian politics always repays careful watching - if you allow yourself to be distracted for a moment you are liable to find that one of the major players has resigned, been indicted or had his...
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Joker played
James Simpson, moderator of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, and author of three joke books, received a founder's day honorary degree at Aberdeen University. David Fergusson, professor...
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Indian student uncorks varsity race row
An Indian student's attempt to discover why he was refused entry to the elite Cambridge University Food and Wine Society has left a distinctly bad taste in the mouth. Udi Goyal's investigation...
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Budget hits atom smasher
British particle physicists this week were faced with the prospect of a big slowdown in their programme for building the giant detectors to be used by the Large Hadron Collider particle smashing...
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Sound landing
Riveting event of the week was clearly last week's Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals main committee meeting, when the debate was so exciting that at one stage Sir Brian Follett, vice...
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Hula hoop
The British Geological Survey is advertising for a specialist to help with a celebration of its Jason project, which beams in earth science from Hawaii and outer space via a satellite link. But the...